A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes & sea where birds fly upside down & wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley
- Hemulen, Sniff, Snufkin, Thingummy & Bob
- have joined her in her journey, & Moomin too, who rides to their rescue in a stripey balloon. This brand new version of a `lost classic` pairs Jansson`s irresistible artwork with a playful rhyming text by one of Britain`s star poets.

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The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne & Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact & fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage & the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, & the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage & her own ambitions & desires. The Danish Girl is an evocative & deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate & unusual love stories of the 20th century. ...

Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante`s vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club
- poets & Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell & publisher J. T. Fields
- are finishing America`s first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard College wants to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of such foreign superstitions will prove as corrupting as the immigrants invading Boston Harbor. The members of the Dante Club fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston & Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realises that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell`s punishments from Dante`s Inferno. With the police baffled, lives endangered & Dante`s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence & find a way to stop the killer.

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This practical guide to the River Danube starts at Passau & sails along the navigable stretch of the river, stopping off at the major cities & making side trips into the surrounding countryside along the way. From its source in southwest Germany, Europe ...

The Danube in the Landscapes of the Imagination guide series; providing an in-depth cultural & account of some of the world’s most memorable & evocative landscapes. Presented as a cultural & literary guide, each title in the series explores the cultural history of a landscape, providing an overview of the area’s development from its earliest roots to the modern day. Particular emphasis is placed on the literary, poetic, architectural, cultural & historical elements that make up the landscape & each title is written & researched by an academic expert. An Epilogue offers suggestion for further reading & indices of literary, artistic & historical names & places & landmarks. ...

This guidebook describes the Danube Cycleway along the lower part of the River Danube through Hungary, Croatia, Serbia & Romania. The 1717km long route is split into 32 stages averaging about 50km, & will typically take 3-4 weeks to complete. Following part of Euro Velo 6 (EV6) trans-continental cycle route, the cycling is mostly level, with long stretches off-road on flood dykes, or on quiet roads alongside the flood plain. In contrast to the sections through Austria & Germany, the lower Danube Cycleway goes through regions without a well-developed tourist infrastructure, & cyclists will need to plan ahead & be more self-sufficient. However, it is well within the capabilities of most cycle tourists. The route visits the great cities of Budapest & Belgrade, passes the rugged & spectacular Iron Gates gorge, & ends in the Danube Delta, Europe`s largest area of natural wetl&. Route descriptions are accompanied by route maps & town/city maps. The guide gives advice on travel & equipment, & lists facilities & accommodation available en route.” ...

Map No. 161, The Danube from Donauwörth to Regensburg (2-map set), including a nature guide to local wild flowers, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website. * Cartography:* all the maps are contoured with additional shading & graphic relief to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10 metres in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous parts of the two countries. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. New editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.* Geographical coordinates:* unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. * Map legend:* most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.* Other
Features:* some titles now include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have booklets with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names.*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!* * Booklets:* many titles come with booklets describing the area and/or various hiking routes. These booklets are in * German only*, apart from a handful of titles where an English language booklet is specifically indicated in the individual description. So, unless English language booklet is actually mentioned, the map can only be supplied with a German booklet. These booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, most titles now include * full English language map legend.*
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The magnificent Danube both cuts across & connects central Europe, flowing through & alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria & Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river's flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe's account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate & uniquely observant
- everything a reader expects in the best travel writing. Immersing himself in the Danube's waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river's ecological conditions, some discouraging & others hopeful, & encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary & extraordinary people along the way
- the ferrymen & fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers & border policemen, legal & illegal immigrants, & many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique & treasured guide.

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The magnificent Danube both cuts across & connects central Europe, flowing through & alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria & Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river`s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe`s account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate & uniquely observant
- everything a reader expects in the best travel writing. Immersing himself in the Danube`s waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river`s ecological conditions, some discouraging & others hopeful, & encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary & extraordinary people along the way
- the ferrymen & fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers & border policemen, legal & illegal immigrants, & many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique & treasured guide.

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The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, & the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotl&, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King & the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, & to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine & decay. The site of the colony, Darien on the Isthmus of Panama, was the enduring dream of William Paterson, the erratically brilliant Scot who had helped to found the Bank of Engl&. He called it `the door of the seas, & the key of the universe`, & believed that it would become a bridge between East & West, an entrepot through which would pass the richest trade in the world. The first attempt to make the Company a joint Scots & English venture was crushed by the English Parliament. The Scots created it by themselves, in a wave of almost hysterical enthusiasm, subscribing half of the nation`s capital. Three years later the `noble undertaking`, crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, & opposed in arms by Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women & children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned. It was a tragic curtain to the last act of Scotland`s independence. John Prebble`s book is the first detailed account of the Darien Settlement, drawn from original sources in the records of the Company, the journals, letters & memoirs of those who tried to turn William Paterson`s dream into reality. ...