This text is an informative & detailed travel book which brings to life the history of the winelands towns of Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Franschhoek, Paarl, Wellington & Tulbagh, all within easy reach of Cape Town. The 224 illustrated pages, inclusive of a 32-page colour insert & wine route maps, business & name indexes, weave in stories & legends & describes the early architecture at the Cape. The book also talks of of slaves & slavery, of Dutch East India Company rule, governors & servants & explains the birth of Afrikaans. It highlights influential personalities & remarkable characters, tells the story of the Huguenots & wine, takes the visitor on a walk and/or drive through the towns, & ultimately directs him to the beautiful wine farms & estates. ...

For anyone who wants to understand the full story that lies within a glass of wine, this book opens up the inner secrets of the geology, the vineyards, the wines, & the growers of the northern Rhone Valley in France. Home to the spicy Syrah, or Shiraz, & the floral Viognier grapes, the northern Rhone Valley is one of France`s oldest wine-growing regions; its appellations include Hermitage, Cote-Rotie, Condrieu, Crozes-Hermitage, St-Joseph, & Chateau-Grillet. With evocative descriptions & marvelous insights, this accessible, elegant book, the culmination of more than thirty years following the Rhone, is a comprehensive & authoritative survey of the various estates, winemakers, & their wines. Taking a deeper look at the northern Rhone than Livingstone-Learmonth`s highly regarded previous volumes on the Rhone Valley, this revised & up-to-date edition covers more producers &

Includes:: more in-depth information on the various terroirs, the histories of the wines, & the methods for making the wines. Livingstone-Learmonth concentrates on letting the producers explain their outlook & methods &

Includes:: much local color.” The Wines of the Northern Rhone”
Includes:: assessments of thousands of wines, with guide dates on when to drink & how long to age them; winemakers` views on what foods best accompany their wines; new vineyard maps for each appellation; detailed descriptions by growers discussing the effect of different soils on their wines; precise information on how each domaine makes its wines; &, new research on the historical links between Hermitage & Bordeaux.




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The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival & the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa left him two years ago & Igor has never really come to terms with their break up, especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer, Hamid Hussein. Igor is insanely jealous & when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy `whole worlds` in order to get her back, & he intends to keep his promise... Igor has followed Ewa & her new husband to Cannes & his plan is to cause as much violence & destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her & comes back to him. Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him. She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier, but she also knows a dark secret
- that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant. Igor is clearly unhinged & he will stop at nothing to regain her love & so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa... The star-studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor`s maniacal murdering spree & we are ntroduced to various characters along the way, all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business; Gabriela a young & naive actress who is being exploited by her agent & Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model. The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping, fast-paced thriller, & Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire, poking fun at our celebrity & money obsessed culture.
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Winter camping has its own special allure: the splendid quiet of a winter forest, the hush of falling snow, the thrill of gliding over ice & snow on skis. From building a snow shelter to traveling comfortably in sub-zero temperatures, The Winter Camping Handbook covers everything you`ll need to know in order to enjoy wilderness travel & adventure in the colder months. Extremely user-friendly, the book`s step-by-step approach covers everything from choosing a location to explore, selecting teammates, planning the trip, winterizing a travel vehicle, gear selection, making camp, food & nutrition, dealing with winter safety concerns, & even camping with children. Now revised & updated to include tips for using smartphones & the latest GPS navigation, this is the definitive guide to cold-weather hiking & camping. ...

It`s 1942 & the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don`t have enough `heavy water`
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From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land.. . Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead. His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country`s lesser kings seek to claim the crown for themselves. While they squabble & spoil for war, a host of Saxon armies gather, preparing for invasion. But no one has counted on the fearsome warlord Arthur. Handed power by Merlin & pursuing a doomed romance with the beautiful Guinevere, Arthur knows he will struggle to unite the country
- let alone hold back the Saxon enemy at the gates. Yet destiny awaits him.. . The first of Bernard Cornwell`s Warlord Chronicles, The Winter King is a brilliant retelling of the Arthurian legend, combining myth, history & thrilling battlefield action. ` Of all the books I have written these are my favourites` Bernard Cornwell ` Spellbinding realism` The Times
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` Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel` Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason`s The Winter Soldier, a story of love & medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, & only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon`s scalpel. & as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient & nurse forever. From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war & medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, &, finally, of the mistakes we make, & the precious opportunities to atone. ...

For more than 100 years, winter sports have been an integral part of the image of mountainous regions. Skiing in particular became the in activity for the rich & beautiful during the roaring twenties. The sport was as much about competition as it was about an exclusive lifestyle. Since that time, winter sports destinations have advertised their assets through artistically designed posters. Renowned Artists have used pencils & water colors to express the ideals of winter vacations in top Alpine locations such as St. Moritz, Chamonix & Groden, as well as dream places like Vail & Whistler in the Rocky Mountains. The collection in this book documents the stylistic development while presenting in different chapters the most beautiful & exceptional posters of the era. ...

Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled & resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened: villages will be deluged, thousands will be exiled from their homes, & graves will be moved. & when Avery & Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own, they begin their separate journeys through the landscape of grief. Weaving historical moments with the quiet intimacy of human lives, ” The Winter Vault” is the story of a husband & a wife trying to find their way back to each other; of people & nations displaced; & of the myriad means by which we all seek out a place to call home. ...

Finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Cha in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children. At Tierra de Cha, nothing & everything has changed: the people, the distant little house in the rain, the acrid smell of gorse, the flowers, the crops, the customs. Yet the return of the sisters disrupts the placid existence of the villagers, stirring up memories best left alone. When news arrives that the famous American actress Ava Gardner will be shooting a movie in Spain & that lookalikes are wanted, the sisters have a chance to make their dreams come true. But the past is catching up with the present, & the family secrets that led to the Winterlings` return won`t stay buried for long. ...