The fourth in the fun new 12-book collectible series for young readers from survival expert & Chief Scout BEAR GRYLLS. Chloe is enjoying activity camp & all the outdoor fun
- what`s not to like? But she can`t understand why everyone goes on & on about ”leaving things the way you found them”. After all, what`s the big deal about a bit of litter in the middle of the woods? The world is big enough for a bit of rubbish not to matter. But when she`s given a mysterious compass with a fifth direction she`s transported to a tropical island beach & has to brave the extreme conditions with the help of survival expert Bear Grylls. It`s not like a typical trip to the seaside! First there`s a shipwreck to escape through raging surf, fresh water to source, not to mention quicksand & sea urchins... Will Bear persuade her to change her ways when she sees how much non-degradable litter still washes up, & the damage it does to wildlife? & who will get the compass next? Each book in this fun new 12-book series from BEAR GRYLLS follows a different child on the outdoor activity camp. Once they are given the magical compass, they meet the inspirational adventurer in an amazing place & learn new skills & facts they can take with them back to their real life.
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A Richard & Judy Summer 2013 Book Club pick. The Sea Change by Joanna Rossiter is a haunting & moving novel about a mother & a daughter, caught between a tsunami & a war. Yesterday was Alice`s wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the morning to see a wave on the horizon, taller than the height of her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen. On the other side of the world, unhappily estranged from her daughter, is Alice`s mother, violet. Forced to leave the idyllic Wiltshire village, Imber, in which she grew up after it was requisitioned by the army during the Second World War, violet is haunted by the shadow of the man she loved & the wilderness of a home that lies in ruins. As Alice searches for her husband in the debris of the wave she is forced to face up to some truths about herself she has been hiding from. Meanwhile violet is compelled to return to Imber to discover just why she abandoned her great love...”A great theme: impermanence, & the sweeping away of everything we believed was certain. Joanna Rossiter really shines with lovely, fluid, restrained writing. This is such a moving story”. (Helen Dunmore). Joanna Rossiter grew up in Dorset & studied English at Cambridge University before working as a researcher in the House of Commons & as a copy writer. In 2011 she completed an MA in Writing at Warwick University. The Sea Change is her first novel. She lives & writes in London. ...

To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage & experience, & the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course. This book looks at the history & development of the chart & the related nautical map, in both scientific & aesthetic terms, as a means of safe & accurate seaborne navigation. The Italian merchant-venturers of the early thirteenth century developed the earliest 'portulan' pilot charts of the Mediterranean. The subsequent speed of exploration by European seafarers, encompassing the New World, the extraordinary voyages around the Cape of Good Hope & the opening up of the trade to the East, India & the Spice Islands were both a result of the development of the sea chart & in addition as an aid to that development. By the eighteenth century the discovery & charting of the coasts & oceans of the globe had become a strategic naval & commercial requirement. Such involvements led to Cook's voyages in the Pacific, the search for the Northwest Passage & races to the Arctic & Antarctic. The volume is arranged along chronological & then geographical lines. Each of the ten chapters is split into two distinct halves examining the history of the charting of a particular region & the context under which such charting took place following which specific navigational charts & views together with other relevant illustrations are presented. Key figures or milestones in the history of charting are then presented in st&-alone story box features. ...

To sail the oceans needed skill as well as courage & experience, & the sea chart with, where appropriate, the coastal view, was the tool by which ships of trade, transport or conquest navigated their course. This book looks at the history & development of the chart & the related nautical map, in both scientific & aesthetic terms, as a means of safe & accurate seaborne navigation. The Italian merchant-venturers of the early thirteenth century developed the earliest `portulan` pilot charts of the Mediterranean. The subsequent speed of exploration by European seafarers, encompassing the New World, the extraordinary voyages around the Cape of Good Hope & the opening up of the trade to the East, India & the Spice Islands were both a result of the development of the sea chart & in addition as an aid to that development. By the eighteenth century the discovery & charting of the coasts & oceans of the globe had become a strategic naval & commercial requirement. Such involvements led to Cook`s voyages in the Pacific, the search for the Northwest Passage & races to the Arctic & Antarctic. The volume is arranged along chronological & then geographical lines. Each of the ten chapters is split into two distinct halves examining the history of the charting of a particular region & the context under which such charting took place following which specific navigational charts & views together with other relevant illustrations are presented. Key figures or milestones in the history of charting are then presented in st&-alone story box features. This new edition features around 40 new charts & accompanying text. ...

Part of the Penguin Classics campaign celebrating 100 years of Albert Camus, `A Sea Close By` reveals the writer as a sensual witness of landscapes, the sea & sailing. It is a light, summery day-dream. Accompanying ` The Sea Close By` is the essay ` Summer in Algiers`, a lovesong to his Mediterranean childhood. ...

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ' Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe & the food we eat. It is ceaseless change & constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. In ' The Sea Inside', Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds & beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world
- the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand
- in search of encounters with animals & people. Navigating between human & natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now. Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales & bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, ' The Sea Inside' takes us on an astounding journey of discovery.

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A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read & winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for ` Leviathan`. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe & the food we eat. It is ceaseless change & constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it. In ` The Sea Inside`, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds & beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world
- the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand
- in search of encounters with animals & people. Navigating between human & natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now. Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales & bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, ` The Sea Inside` takes us on an astounding journey of discovery.

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Alistair Moffat`s journey, from the Scottish islands & Scotl&, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall & Irel&, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture & history of Celtic Britain which still survives today. This is a vividly told, dramatic & enlightening account of the oral history, legends & battles of a people whose past stretches back many hundred of years. ” The Sea Kingdoms” is a story of great tragedies, ancient myths & spectacular beauty. Alistair Moffat was born & raised in Kelso. He took degrees at the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh & London & played rugby for Kelso & his universities. In 1976, he took charge of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as it grew into the largest arts festival in the world. He now lives in Selkirk. ” The Sea Kingdoms” has previously been published by Harper Collins. ...

A mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Isles soon turns into a terrifying adventure when Bill is kidnapped! Marooned far from the mainland on a deserted coast, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack & Kiki the parrot find themselves playing a dangerous game with an unknown enemy. Will they escape with Bill & their lives? ...

Goa, south India. A beautiful holiday hideaway where hippies & backpackers while away the hours. But beneath the clear blue skies lies a dirty secret… Simran Singh is desperate for a break & some time away from her busy job as a social worker-come-crime investigator. & so the unspoilt idyll of Goa seems just the place
- white beaches, blue seas & no crime. But when a disturbing video appears on her phone, featuring a young girl being attacked by a group of men, she realises that a darkness festers at the heart of this supposed paradise. & when she discovers out that the girl is Liza Kay, a British teenager who has gone missing, she knows she must act in order to save her. But first Simran must break through the web of lies & dark connections that flourish on these beaches. Everyone, it seems, knows what has happened to the girl but no one is prepared to say. & when more videos appear, & Simran herself is targeted in order to keep her quiet, the paradise soon becomes a living nightmare.
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