This is a guidebook to 44 great sea kayak trips around the archipelago of the Outer Hebrides, from Berneray to the Butt of Lewis & including St Kilda. As well as describing 44 great kayaking journeys, this book presents all the navigational & tidal information a sea kayaker needs on this magnificent section of coast. This means that it can also be used as a kayaker`s `pilot` for any journey they might wish to undertake in this area. It follows the successful format of other Pesda Press sea kayaking guides, presenting the information in a user-friendly fashion & making lavish use of maps & colour photographs. ...

” An extraordinary achievement in natural history & science. But it`s so artfully written you forget it`s a scientific treatise & find yourself reading it with sheer pleasure.”
- Provincetown Advocate Dorothy Sterling explores the fascinating plants & animals that inhabit the peninsulas & islands of the East Coast known as the Outer Lands. With vibrant original drawings by Winifred Lubell & a new foreword by natural historian Robert Finch, The Outer Lands is a lively, lovingly observed biography of place.
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On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half mad, & widowed
- by her own h&. Tearing through the forest with dogs howling in the distance, she is desperate, her nerves burning, & she is certain of one thing only
- that her every move is being traced. Two red-headed brothers, rifles across their backs, lurch close behind her: monstrous figures, identical in every way, with the predatory look of hyenas. She has murdered their brother, & their cold lust for vengeance is unswerving. As the widow scrambles to stay ahead of them, the burden of her existence disintegrates into a battle in which the dangers of her own mind become more menacing than the dangers of the night. Along the way, the steely outlaw encounters a changing cast of misfits & eccentrics. Some, like the recluse known as ` The Ridgerunner`, provide a brief respite from her solitude; others, like the Reverend Bonnycastle, offer support only to reveal that they too have their own demons raging inside. As she is plunged further away from civilisation, her path from retribution to redemption slowly unfurls. A startling transformation of the classic western narrative, The Outlander is the haunting tale of one young woman`s deliberate journey deep into the wild.

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When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. Approaching the land that was once home, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey. Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons, birth & death on the farm, & her father`s mental illness, which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild, carefree existence on Orkney. But as she grew up, she longed to leave this remote life. She moved to London & found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Unable to control her drinking, alcohol gradually took over. Now thirty, she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney, standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London. Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney`s wildlife
- puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings
- & nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction. The Outrun is a beautiful, inspiring book about living on the edge, about the pull between island & city, & about the ability of the sea, the l&, the wind & the moon to restore life & renew hope.

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At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the isl&, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney`s wildlife, & her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life & renew hope. ...

` Astonishing
- jagged, fresh & startlingly alive` Daily Mail Jeannie is nineteen when the world changes, Kip only fourteen.
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Who does this footprint belong to? What is this worm up to? What is the name of this tree? Even if we live in the city, nature is still all around us: clouds & stars, trees & flowers, rocks & beaches, birds, reptiles or mammals. What are we waiting for? Let`s jump off the couch & begin exploring! Created in collaboration with a team of Portuguese experts, this book, which won the coveted Bologna Regazzi award, aims to arouse your curiosity about fauna, flora & other aspects of the natural world. It

Includes:: suggestions for activities & many illustrations to help the whole family get started, leave the house, & go out to discover
- or simply admire
- the amazing world that exists outdoors.



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` My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don`t know.` In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus` portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, & revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man`s joy in life when faced with the `tender indifference` of the world. Sandra Smith`s translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L` Etranger. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist & playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) & The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, & his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994, & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature & Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. ...

The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus. ` Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don`t know.` Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies & he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing & grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder. In court, it is clear that Meursault`s guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do. He is on trial for being different
- an outsider. ” The story of a beach murder, one of the century`s classic novels. Blood & sand”. (J.G. Ballard). ”A compelling, dreamlike fable”. (Guardian). Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He studied philosophy in Algiers & then worked in Paris as a journalist. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement &, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. His books include The Plague, The Just & The Fall, & he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960.
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When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town`s popular Little League coach, Terry Maitl&, as the culprit. DNA evidence & fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man. Horrified by the brutal killing, Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own son was once coached by Maitl&, orders the suspect to be arrested in a public spectacle. But Maitland has an alibi. & further research confirms he was indeed out of town that day. As Anderson & the District Attorney trace the clues, the investigation expands from Ohio to Texas. & as horrifying answers begin to emerge, so King`s propulsive story of almost unbearable suspense kicks into high gear. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy but there is one rock-hard fact, as unassailable as gravity: a man cannot be in two places at the same time. Can he? ...