The Grand Canyon is Constance Roos’ (updated by Sian Pritchard Jones & Bob Gibbons) Cicerone guide to some of the walking possibilities near one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. The guide covers the Grand Canyon & the equally impressive Zion & Bryce Canyon national parks, enabling walkers to plan everything from day walks to extended hikes. The Canyon is 277 miles in length & protected by over 1.2 million acres of national park. The guide is structured in three main parts
- the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park & Bryce National Park
- each of which has a series of chapters dedicated to different geographic areas. Individual routes have Information Boxes providing details of starting & finishing points, total distances, the relevant maps & a difficulty grading. A detailed introduction gives practical guidance on when to go, getting around, equipment, lodging & special hazards to consider. Detailed route descriptions are accompanied by sketch diagrams mapping the route as well as colour photographs illustrating some of the highlights of the region.

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This superb anthology brings together some of the most powerful & compelling writing about the Grand Canyon
- stories,
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Subject to both natural & man-made dangers, of the ninety-one pleasure piers that once decorated the British coastline, just fifty-five remain. For over a century, the Grand Pier at Weston has stood as a prominent symbol of this British seaside tradition. For over sixty years, the Grand Pier was owned & run by successive generations of one family, the Brenners. This book is also the story of how they constantly updated & enhanced the pier, ensuring its popularity with tourists continued into the twenty-first century. But the Grand Pier has also seen its fair share of disaster. The pier rose from the ashes of a devastating fire in 1930 to enjoy a period of great success between the wars. A second fire destroyed the famous pavilion in 2008, & whether the pier can return once again to its former glory remains to be seen. This book illustrates the history of this outstanding example of seaside piers, with memories & anecdotes from the people who owned it, worked on it or simply loved it. ...

` Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.` Sunday Telegraph. A beautifully repackaged edition of one of the best of the best. When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy with his sister`s family, the Ombersleys, in Berkeley Square. Upon her arrival, Sophy is bemused to see to see her cousins are in a sad tangle. The heartless & tyrannical Charles is betrothed to a pedantic bluestocking almost as tiresome as himself; Cecilia is besotted with a beautiful but quite feather-brained poet; & Hubert has fallen foul of a money-lender. It looks like the Grand Sophy has arrived just in time to sort them out, but she hasn`t reckoned with Charles, the Ombersleys` heir, who has only one thought
- to marry her off & rid the family of her meddlesome ways.
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie`s extensive & evocative letters & photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Canada & America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January & did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places & people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Hawaii & Canada. The extensive & previously unpublished letters are accompanied by hundreds of photos taken on her portable camera as well as some of the original letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings & memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip. Edited & introduced by Agatha Christie`s grandson, Mathew Prichard, this unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie, demonstrating how her appetite for exotic plots & locations for her books began with this eye-opening trip, which took place just after only her second novel had been published (the first leg of the tour to South Africa is very clearly the inspiration for the book she wrote immediately afterwards, The Man in the Brown Suit). The letters are full of tales of seasickness & sunburn, motor trips & surf boarding, & encounters with welcoming locals & overbearing Colonials. The Grand Tour is a book steeped in history, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the lost world of the 1920s. Coming from the pen of Britain`s biggest literary export & the world`s most widely translated author, it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie & is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans. ...

The world is a big place full of interesting things. & The Grand Tour has seen some of them. That`s why few people are better placed to lead you around this vast planet of ours than Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May. As long as you don`t mind getting hot & lost. Welcome, everyone, to The Grand Tour Guide to The World. In this indispensable guide, you will find an abundance of information, most of which is probably wrong & possibly dangerous. As well as occasionally accurate guides to the places visited on the show, you`ll find exclusive interviews with the presenters & discover their favourite locations for car-based cocking about. As well as being a factually dubious encyclopaedia, The Grand Tour Guide to the World is also a travel companion for those of you who have been inspired by the Grand Tour circus. You`ll find tips on how to sing like a native in the Bahamas, how to speak Welsh (wrongly), & how to navigate the magic roundabout in Swindon. On top of all this, we reveal the world`s fastest cop cars & the greatest car makers. & there`s a picture of James May in an anorak. ...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie`s extensive & evocative letters & photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Canada & America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January & did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places & people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Hawaii & Canada. The extensive & previously unpublished letters are accompanied by hundreds of photos taken on her portable camera as well as some of the original letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings & memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip. Edited & introduced by Agatha Christie`s grandson, Mathew Prichard, this unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie, demonstrating how her appetite for exotic plots & locations for her books began with this eye-opening trip, which took place just after only her second novel had been published (the first leg of the tour to South Africa is very clearly the inspiration for the book she wrote immediately afterwards, The Man in the Brown Suit). The letters are full of tales of seasickness & sunburn, motor trips & surf boarding, & encounters with welcoming locals & overbearing Colonials. The Grand Tour is a book steeped in history, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the lost world of the 1920s. Coming from the pen of Britain`s biggest literary export & the world`s most widely translated author, it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie & is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans. ...

The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, & most famous highway in southern Asia. This book uses oral testimonies, photographs & texts to explore its history, & shows why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain & how the close links between Britain & places along it continue to this day. For millennia the Grand Trunk Road has been used by invaders to conquer the subcontinent. After the British arrived in 17th century they used it as the main artery of their conquest & rule of northern areas of British India. Known locally as the `GT Road` it was also used by its residents to begin journeys that ended all over the world, & since the days of the British Raj large numbers of them have settled in Britain. Between Delhi & the Khyber Pass, the GT Road travels through the homelands of over 90% of British Pakistanis & the vast majority of British Sikhs & Hindus from the Indian Punjab. Using stories gathered by Irna Qureshi & photographs taken by Tim Smith this book tells
- for the first time here
- the story of the profound impact of the British on the GT Road & its people, & how they in turn have irrevocably altered the fabric of modern day Britain.

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Working its way from Salford Junction outside Birmingham to Milton Keynes, this illustrated guide covers the northern part of the Grand Union Canal, accompanying the guide to the southern hallf of the canal. Revealing much that will appeal to holiday-makers along this stretch of water, the guide also provides historical snippets & useful up to date information for the casual sightseer or interested loca. Covering an area a mile or two either side of the canal, it is an invaluable resource for the canal boater, day tripper, angler, walker & interested local. Grand Union Canal North is the third in a series of Towpath guides. ...

The Grand Union Canal, one of the most famous waterways in the UK, links London to Birmingham. This guide explores the southernhalf of the canal, & its journey from Milton Keynes through the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire & finally Middlesex before joining the Thames at Brentford in the heart of West London. Revealing much that will appeal to holiday-makers along this stretch of water, the guide also provides historical snippets & useful up to date information for the casual sightseer or interested loca. Covering an area a mile or two either side of the canal, it is an invaluable resource for the canal boater, day tripper, angler, walker & interested local & covers the area from Napton to Oxford, a stretch of just under 50 miles. Grand Union Canal South is part of an ongoing series of Towpath guides. ...