The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series, which

Includes:: Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases,

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These are stylish guides to island getaways, thematically rather than geographically organized. The chapters are thematic essays with helpful hints & information on making the most of your island experience. Each chapter will feature a map tailored to its theme. Chapter 1 will feature the physical isl&, its location, climate, geology & geography. Chapter 2 covers the island's culture, including its people, religions, festivals, music, dance, arts & crafts, architecture, history, population, official languages, currency, etc. Chapter 3 deals with accommodation, giving a range of the best hotels & resorts & supplying information on facilities & services. Chapter 4 gives advice on where, when & how to shop, & a profile of the best buys, with features on indigenous arts & crafts. Chapter 5 covers the island's cuisine & top restaurants, & also offers advice on where to shop for food. Chapter 6 features sports & other activities available on the isl&, including offshore activities such as diving & sailing. At the end of the book, there will be a Travel Tips section covering practical matters such as transport, useful information, contact details, language information, & a calendar of holidays & festivals. ...

From rugged volcanic mountain landscapes, down through rich farmlands, to dazzlingly white sand beaches, & finally onto stunning ...

This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, & Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, &, strangely enough, as a philosopher, leading him to re-evaluate his attitude to love, happiness, nature & death. By turns funny (what do you do when your wolf eats your air-conditioning unit?) & poignant, this life-affirming classic of popular philosophy will make you reappraise what it means to be human. ...

This is a short, entertaining & illuminating introduction to the history & culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a global phenomenon that is enjoyed around the world. It is the perfect gift for coffee lovers, including chapters on the rise of the coffeehouse, legal bans on coffee, Brazil`s domination of the world coffee trade & the birth of the espresso. ...

The 1000-year-old kingdom of Hungary, which formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was dismembered by the Allies in 1918. Phoenix-like, the Hungarian people survived the horrors of war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of the brief but terrifying rule of Bela Kun & the bitterness of seeing their beloved country dismembered by the Treaty of Trianon. This is the world Miklos Banffy, author of the hugely popular Transylvanian Trilogy (Arcadia), describes in his arresting memoir. ...

Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, THE PHOENIX charts the lives & works of five extraordinary men, who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener & virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scientist, Robert Hooke; the radical philosopher, John Locke & the builder, Nicholas Barbon. At the heart of the story is the rebuilding of London`s iconic cathedral, St Paul`s. Interweaving science, architecture, history & philosophy, THE PHOENIX tells the story of the formation of the first modern city. ...

Meike Ziervogel`s new novel celebrates how humanity can thrive against all odds. Set at the end of the Second World War when eleven million Germans fled from east to west, The Photographer explores love & survival in a time of mass migration. Pomerania, 1933: Trude falls in love with Albert, a young photographer who takes her picture in the street. Her mother disapproves, & when war breaks out she arranges for Albert to be sent to the front. Eventually, Trude & Albert are reunited in a refugee camp near Hamburg. But now the couple face a new challenge: can they begin their relationship anew? In a Europe of ruined cities & refugee camps, Trude & Albert learn to respect each other`s flaws &, in doing so, discover unexpected strengths. ...

Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious
- & wildly eccentric
- plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the `little witness`, eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms & behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city`s elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled Armenians & German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster. When Prue`s father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between him & Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. &, after Harrington learns that Eleanora`s husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British, those sparks are fanned dangerously into a flame. Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels her world, & she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets long-ago buried in Jerusalem. The Photographer`s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father & daughter, between husband & wife, & between nations & people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.

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Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious
- & wildly eccentric
- plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the `little witness`, eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms & behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city`s elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled Armenians & German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster. When Prue`s father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between him & Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. &, after Harrington learns that Eleanora`s husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British, those sparks are fanned dangerously into a flame. Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels her world, & she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets long-ago buried in Jerusalem. The Photographer`s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father & daughter, between husband & wife, & between nations & people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.

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