Number one bestselling author David Walliams presents his first picture book for children of 3 & up, illustrated by artistic genius Tony Ross. What`s big, blue, bossy, & turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant, of course! Introducing a magnificently warm & funny picture book from two remarkable talents. Adopt your copy today! ...

Guidebook to trekking the Slovenian High Level Mountain Trail or Transverzala, 550km across Slovenia. Beginning at Maribor near the Austrian border to Ankaran on the Adriatic coast, the route is described as a series of 3 to 6-day treks through the region of Pohorje & the limestone mountains of the Karavanke & Kamnik-Savinja & Julian Alps. ...

An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art & the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages & its hold on us today. In the years following the devastations of the first world war, a brilliant, young American couple, Kingsley & Lucy Porter, travelled to south-west France to document the abbeys & basilicas of the Romanesque period. Their extraordinary photographs revealed some of the most feverishly inventive stonescapes in Europe, stories chiselled from the Bible & nightmares: rams playing harps & devils eating men's brains; a female centaur pulling a mermaid's hair; women suckling snakes at their breasts. For the Porters, these were images of an imagined world that unlocked secrets of the eleventh century but, menacingly, cast a dark shadow over their marriage. In The Slow Breath of Stone, Pamela Petro rents a car &, using the Porter's photographs & Lucy's journal as her map, retraces their journey through the wild landscapes of the Rouergue. She visits the beautiful & disturbing sculptures of monsters & animals devouring prey that adorn the cathedrals of Cahors & Carcassonne, & she explores a limestone quarry from where these great slabs of stone were hewn a thousand years ago. She walks the routes of pilgrimages, testaments to the tenacity of human hope, meeting people along the way & savouring the local food & wine. Above all, she journeys deep into the strange relationship of the sexually incompatible Lucy & Kingsley, following them to Donegal where their marriage was to end tragically & mysteriously on the cliffs of Inishbofin. ...

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job & travel to a country where he can 'escape the deadness of his life'. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved & the indentured have made a new world. But he is not just seduced by the country: he is also captivated by the feisty yet fragile Jan, & together they embark on an adventure which will take them into a new country & change both their lives. In his dazzling & ambitious debut novel, Rahul Bhattacharya has created a story that follows the shape & rhythms of life, not art. Part picaresque, in part a meditation, The Sly Company of People Who Care captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, & the paradoxes of searching for life's meaning in the escape from home. ...

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job & travel to a country where he can `escape the deadness of his life`. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved & the indentured have made a new world. But he is not just seduced by the country: he is also captivated by the feisty yet fragile Jan, & together they embark on an adventure which will take them into a new country & change both their lives. In his dazzling & ambitious debut novel, Rahul Bhattacharya has created a story that follows the shape & rhythms of life, not art. Part picaresque, in part a meditation, The Sly Company of People Who Care captures the heady adventures of travel, the overheated restlessness of youth, & the paradoxes of searching for life`s meaning in the escape from home. ...

This is the chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible h&...an exceptional & bestselling ghost story by the author of ” The Woman in Black” & ” The Man in the Picture”. Late one summers evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, & compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, `as if a child had taken hold of it`. At first he is merely puzzled by the odd incident but then begins to suffer attacks of fear & panic, & is visited by nightmares. He is determined to learn more `about the house & its once-magnificent, now overgrown garden but when he does so, he receives further, increasingly sinister, visits from the small h&. ...

The Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook introduces a global spread of delicious low-impact vegetarian dishes. There`s something particularly enticing about a meal made up of several `small` dishes, as with Middle Eastern mezze or Spanish tapas. Troth Wells has taken this style of cooking & enjoying food & given it an exciting global dimension. Western livestock-rearing & industrial production of meat is not a model that can be projected worldwide
- even if it were desirable. Moving towards a more vegetable-based diet is the only sustainable & healthy way to feed the world. Not everyone can or will give up eating meat at once, but this exciting Small Planet Vegetarian Cookbook will help the change.
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The Smaller Islands In The British Ocean, an original antique map by R. Morden published in London, 1695-1722-. Copperplate, coloured. Map size 43 x 36 cm, overall mounted size 58.5 x 52 cm. An attractive & popular map of Islands in the British Ocean. Considering the popularity & success of Camden's Britannia, first issued with maps in 1607, it is surprising that it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that a new edition was prepared. Robert Morden (d.1703) was commissioned to engrave a set of county maps for Edmund Gibson's new edition. Morden's first series of maps were rejected as being too small, & these were later published in Morden's New Description & State of Engl&, first issued in 1701, & subsequently re-issued in Cox's Magna Britannia, in the 1720s. Morden finally produced a new set of maps on a larger scale which were used in Gibson's editions published in 1695, 1722 as here, circa 1730, 1753 & 1772. The maps were based on the most up-to-date surveys where available, although some drew on Saxton & Speed, & were engraved by Sutton Nicholls & John Sturt. The maps are plain & simple, invariably with decorative title surround, & charmingly engraved. Their detail, convenient size, visual attraction & antiquity make them among the most popular of all early county maps. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...

In Peter H. Reynolds` whimsical holiday story, young Roland learns that more isn`t always better
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We have all heard talk of the intelligence of dolphins, elephants or great apes, or even, in different ways, ants & bees. But what is this intelligence all about? How do we know which animals are smart, & how do they use this superior intelligence? Written by one of the world`s authorities in this field, this riveting book cover the themes of tool use, language, communication, imitation & social learning, numerical abilities, social cognition, emotion, self-recognition & awareness, drawing together the most recent & remarkable global research relating to almost every ”smart” species. Fully illustrated, & including step-by-step illustrations to show experiments & observations both in the field & in captivity, Covering the core themes of, this book delivers cutting-edge scientific research about a topic fascinating to anyone interested in the natural world. ...