Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent & witty exploration into a glorious & passionate British subject
- footpaths & the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape & why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny & personal, this book celebrates Britain`s unique & extraordinary network of footpaths. It examines their chequered & surprisingly turbulent history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the 1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; & from the hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of Nicholas van Hoogstraten & Madonna to keep ramblers off their l&. The story ranges far & wide, to all corners of the country & beyond, & is filled with the many characters that Mike engages with along the way
- the poets & artists, farmers & ramblers, landowners & Rights of Way officers & campaigners, historians, archivists & anyone else who crosses his path (or even tries to block it).

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A fresh translation of the classic fairy tale of courage & a sister`s love A king has eleven sons & one daughter-Elisa. When he marries an evil woman, she turns the princes into swans & banishes the princess from the palace. After years of loneliness & sorrow, Elisa finds her beloved brothers again. But the spell that has been cast on them is powerful, & the price of returning her brothers to human form might be too much for her to bear. The Wild Swans is the story of a sister`s love for her brothers- & her fight to save them, whatever it may cost. This volume also

Includes:: The Nightingale, Hans Christian Andersen`s classic fairy tale of song & salvation.

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The key missing piece of Jon Krakauer`s multi million, multi territory bestseller & widely acclaimed Sean Penn film Into the Wild is finally revealed by his best friend & sister, Carine. The story of Chris Mc Candless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, & starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but the rest of the nation too. Krakauer`s book & a Sean Penn film skyrocketed Chris Mc Candless to worldwide fame, but the real story of his life & his journey has not yet been told
- until now. Carine Mc Candless, Chris`s sister, featured in both the book & film, was the person with whom he had the closest bond, & who witnessed firsthand the dysfunctional & violent family dynamic that made Chris willing to embrace the harsh wilderness of Alaska. Growing up in the same troubled & volatile household that sent Chris on his fatal journey into the wild, Carine finally reveals the broader & deeper reality about life in the Mc Candless family. For decades, Carine & Chris`s parents, a successful aerospace engineer & his beautiful wife, raised their children in the tony suburbs of Northern Virginia. But behind closed doors, her father beat & choked her mother. He whipped Carine & Chris with his belt. He cursed them, belittled their accomplishments, & told them they were nothing without him. Carine & Chris hid under the stairs, hoping to avoid his wrath. They were teenagers before they learned they were conceived while their father was still married & having babies with his first wife, who finally summoned the courage to leave him after he broke her back in a fight. In the 20-plus years since the tragedy of Chris`s death, she has searched for some kind of redemption. But in this touching & deeply personal memoir, she reveals how she has learned that real redemption can only come from speaking the truth. Finally, she has found the truth not just in her brother`s story, but also her own.
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This is a new addition to the popular ” True Stories” series. It contains thrilling stories of heroism, bravery & battling the odds to provide young readers with a truly compelling read. It also contains maps, line drawings & notes on sources & further reading. It is perfect for fact-fans & reluctant readers, a must-have series during the 2008 Year of Reading. ...

Beginning with the promise of Manifest Destiny, buckskin adventurers opened the American frontier to a steady stream of settlers. The lure of land rich in minerals, fertile for farming & grazing, & plentiful with buffalo bred an all-out obsession with heading westward. The Wild West: 365 Days takes the reader back to these booming frontier towns that became the stuff of American legend, breeding characters such as Billy the Kid & Jesse James who were worshipped as well as feared. Author Michael Wallis spins a colourful narrative, separating myth from fact, in 365 vignettes. The reader will learn the stories of Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, & Annie Oakley; travel to the OK Corral & Dodge City; ride with the Pony Express; & witness the invention of the Colt revolver. ...

Adventures, games & crafts to get you outdoors all the year round. Playing outdoors should be an essential part of growing up; developing your imagination, keeping fit & letting the wild world weave its magic spell on you. In The Wild Year Book, Fiona & Jo have selected 70 of their favourite activities to help you enjoy spending time outdoors, season by season. Perhaps you`ll want to play camouflage games in Spring & make enormous bubbles in the summer, challenge your friends to a foraging bake-off in the autumn, or create ice mobiles in the winter. With this book you will never be short of inspiration! Over 100, 000 copies sold of Fiona & Jo`s Going Wild series. ...

Following on from the huge success of her previous titles, Wilderness Weekends (2015) & Britain`s Best Small Hills (2016), outdoor guru Phoebe Smith returns with her top tips about wilderness cooking on a single stove, including fifty recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert & snacks. She also adds that secret extra ingredient to each recipe
- an incredible sense of place, from moorland to coast, woodl&, mountains or riverside. This innovative title is packed with advice on how to get the most out of walking in wild places, wild camping & wild cooking. Heading out into the wilds is incredible, but the food you eat when you go wild can be unimaginative
- all pre-packed, dehydrated camping meals crammed with salt & colouring. This book, the first written specifically for wild campers, teaches you the tricks to make the tastiest food with limited ingredients & all at the lightest weight so that you can be assured of good food that won`t break your back. Bradt`s Wilderness Cookbook also

Includes:: countryside safety tips, information about understanding the countryside & suggestions & instructions for things to make on the fly, be it an item of cutlery or a driftwood den. The basics of foraging are also covered, from using sphagnum moss to clean your pots to finding cockles to add to your stew or bilberries to mix into your porridge. No matter where you are, what type of terrain you`re covering or what season it is, this inspirational new title will have a recipe to fit the moment, from Deviled Eggs in Disguise or Lemon & Cinnamon Muffins for breakfast to Brilliant Burritos or Cracking Couscous for lunch, Rosemary & Garlic Mushrooms for dinner &, to round off, Real Ale Pancakes or Baked Apple & Ginger Bombs for dessert. With Bradt`s Wilderness Cookbook, you can ensure the wild food you prepare offers maximum taste & energy for minimum kit, weight & hassle



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Kobie Kruger`s fascinating, funny & moving account of life; When Kobie Kruger, her game-ranger husband & their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world
- a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa`s vast Kruger National Park
- she might have worried that she would become engulfed with loneliness & boredom. Yet, for Kobie & her family, the seventeen years spent in this spectacularly beautiful park proved to be the most magical
- & occasionally the most hair-raising
- of their lives. Kobie recounts their enchanting adventures & extraordinary experiences in this vast reserve
- a place where, bathed in golden sunlight, hippos basked in the glittering waters of the Letaba River, storks & herons perched along the shoreline, & fruit bats hung in the sausage trees. But as the Krugers settled in, they discovered that not all was peace & harmony. They soon became accustomed to living with the unexpected: the sneaky hyenas who stole blankets & cooking pots, the sinister-looking pythons that slithered into the house, & the usually placid elephants who grew foul-tempered in the violent heat of the summer. And one terrible day, a lion attacked Kobus in the bush & nearly killed him. Yet nothing prepared the Krugers for their greatest adventure of all, the raising of an orphaned prince, a lion cub who, when they found him, was only a few days old & on the verge of death. Reared on a cocktail of love & bottles of fat-enriched milk, Leo soon became an affectionate, rambunctious & adored member of the fmaily. It is the rearing of this young king, & the hilarious endeavours to teach him to become a `real` lion who could survive with his own kind in the wild, that lie at the heart of this endearing memoir. It is a memoir of a magical place & time that can never be recaptured.




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Joe O` Leary, a successful survival skills instructor, explains the fundamental techniques required in a genuine `wilderness survival situation`
- while at the same time showing you how to enhance any out-of-doors experience, from a walk in the country to an ambitious camping expedition. Most types of shelter, animal trap & fire-lighting technique are variations on a theme. Joe keeps it simple & describes in straightforward steps what to do to make yourself safe & comfortable: how to build a shelter that will really keep you warm, set a trap that will really catch food, identify plants that will really feed & nourish you & build a fire that will really light in all weathers. Rather than trying to cover every eventuality, he concentrates on techniques that can be applied successfully in most environments: it`s better to know a limited number of skills thoroughly than a whole host of different variations specific to particular kinds of terrain. Wilderness survival & bushcraft are thoroughly aspirational
- even to incurable stay-at-homes. This book encourages the values of improvisation & self-reliance in extreme situations
- a form of escapism enjoyed by most viewers of survival TV programmes.


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Winner of the Boardman-Tasker Award 2000 The discovery of the body of George Mallory on the wind-scoured North Face of Everest on 1st May 1999, marked the latest episode in a tale of heroism & tragedy. In 1924, Mallory & his companion Andrew Irvine, wearing rudimentary clothing & using primitive oxygen equipment, disappeared during a valiant bid to reach the world`s highest summit. Although their fate has now been partly resolved, the riddle of whether they succeeded in their bid, 29 years ahead of Hillary & Tenzing, remains as tantalising as ever. Behind the image of the intrepid adventurer, who really was George Mallory? In this book, Peter & Leni Gillman consider the motives & aspirations of this inspirational yet complex figure. Winner of the Boardman-Tasker Award 2000 ...