A saga of flight & pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay & on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as various & as colourful as the epithets with which the author adorns them. The reader is drawn into their lives by incidents tender & outrageous & all compellingly told. Ghosh is as natural a weaver of words as Alu is of cloth, deftly interlacing humour & wisdom to produce a narrative tapestry of surpassing beauty. ...

Lonely Planet`s bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised & updated, it`s a celebration of 200 of the world`s most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed & packed with trip advice & recommendations from our experts
- making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next.- Highlights & itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip- Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history & local culture- Discover each city`s strengths, best experiences & most famous exports-

Includes:: the top ten cities for beaches, nightlife, food & more- Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler shares his all-time favourite cities- Fully revised & updated with the best cities to visit right now


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After the success of Lonely Planet’s “ The Cities Book” Lonely Planet brings you this fascinating journey through the best cities in the world in a new handy mini-format. It presents the 200 diverse cities in the world, ranked in order as voted by Lonely Planet’s staff, authors, & readers. There are the usual suspects such as Paris, London, New York, as well as the unfamiliar, exotic, & tiny: Abuja (Nigeria), Nuuk (Greenland), Saint-Denis (Réunion) & Ulaanbataar (Mongolia). Using full-colour photographs, the book seeks to give you a genuine taste of each city, giving you insight into the people, a defining experience, strengths & weaknesses, imports/exports, sights to see, things to buy, even urban myths & films it’s been featured in. Inspirational, inviting & beautiful, this volume will make travel from your armchair a delight & perhaps inspire more plans for exciting trips in the future. ...

The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire & as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. ” The Cities of Roman Africa” examines the development of urban space & cultural life in this province from the beginnings of Roman rule in the second century BC to the fall of the province of Africa to the Vandals in AD 439. In this engaging & strikingly illustrated new book, Gareth Sears considers the incorporation of Roman culture into Africa, & its use by African populations &, in particular, their elites. The author also explores the persistence of pre-Roman cultures, & how these factors affected the evolution of the cities, intellectual life & even entertainment under the Republic & Empire. Dr. Gareth Sears is a lecturer in Roman History at the University of Birmingham. He is a specialist on Roman North Africa, & has co-directed archaeological work at the city of Cyrene in Libya for the Cyrenaica Archaeological Project. ...

With dramatic & exciting stories, Carlos Miller reveals the secrets behind successful citizen journalism. Whether you`re planning a publicity blitz for your cause, you`re interested in the down-&-dirty practices of the police, or just want to be prepared for the moment you`re the first on the scene, this book has everything you`ll need to know to take news-worthy pictures & get them in front of a wide audience. You dont need a DSLR camera
- though they can be useful
- what is essential for citizen journalism is a cool head, an eye for a great angle, & the initiative to capture the moment: let Carlos Miller show you how.

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With an introduction by novelist Kamila Shamsie When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, & more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him & those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka & Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler & George Orwell, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical & artistic heights. ...

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, & more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him & those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka & Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler & 1984, the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical & artistic heights. ...

Egypt, 2011: this is a revolution. On the streets of Cairo, a violent uprising is transforming the course of history. Mariam & Khalil, two young activists, are swept up in the fervour. Their lives will never be the same again. The City Always Wins captures the feverish intensity of the 2011 Egyptian revolution ­­- from the euphoria of mass protests, to the silence of the morgue
- piercing the bloody heart of the uprising.
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Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It`s unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda Special Branch in search of guns & explosives, Stefan is soon convinced his boss, Superintendent Terry Gregory, is working for the IRA. At home for Christmas, Stefan is abruptly called to Laragh, an isolated mountain town. A postman has disappeared, believed killed, & Laragh`s Guards are hiding something. Stefan is the nearest Special Branch detective, yet is he only there because Gregory wants him out of the way? Laragh is close to the lake where Stefan`s wife Maeve drowned years earlier, & when events expose a connection between the missing postman & her death, Stefan realises it wasn`t an accident, but murder. & it will be a difficult, dangerous journey where Stefan has to finally confront the ghosts of the past not only in the mountains of Wicklow, but in Spain in the aftermath of its bloody Civil War, before he can return to Dublin to find the truth. ...

The City of Abraham is a journey through one of the world`s most divided cities -- Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians & Israelis live side by side. It begins with a hill called Tel Rumeida, the site of ancient Hebron, where the patriarch Abraham -- father of the Jews & the Arabs -- was supposed to have lived when he arrived in the Promised L&. Through a mixture of travel writing, reportage & interviews, Platt tells the history of the hill & the city in which it stands, & explores the mythic roots of the struggle to control the l&. He meets the Palestinian residents of Tel Rumeida, & the messianic settlers who have made their homes in a block of flats that stands on stilts on an excavated corner of the site. He meets the archaeologists who have attempted to reconstruct the history of the hill. He meets the soldiers who serve in Hebron, & the intermediaries who try to keep the peace in the divided city. The City of Abraham explores the ways in which Hebron`s past continues to inform its tumultuous present, & illuminates the lives of the people at the heart of the most intractable conflict in the world. ...