What makes a working mother & average athlete decide to take on a massive physical & mental challenge to run, cycle & kayak the perimeter of South Africa, covering 6 772 km in less than five months? Kim van Kets was inspired by her desire to demonstrate to her daughter the fact that mothers are heroes too. She was able to justify the `time-out` after having built up a credit balance of 150 days owed to her by her adventurer husb&. Her story is a positive & enthusiastic `off the beaten track` South African adventure & is amusing, anecdotal & inspiring. It tells of the physical & mental challenges of the journey but focuses on stories surrounding the people & places she encountered along the way, including those of the ancient Kalahari farmer who pronounced her to be a ` Ramkat` & the Nama goatherd who seemed doubtful about her gender & anxious to be rid of her. The book is also a wonderful South African travelogue & is studded with nuggets of history & fascinating trivia about the plants, animals, characters & places as well as brief summaries of important life lessons the journey highlighted for the author. It will leave the reader feeling upbeat, inspired & eager to explore the splendour of the beloved country & its people. ...

In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore. The chambers was run by a determined thirty-three year-old Pakistani lawyer, Sarah Belal, who had finally found her calling in defending inmates on Pakistan`s death row. Belal & Buchanan struck up an unlikely friendship, forged through working in a system that was instinctively hostile to newcomers
- & doubly so if they were female. At Sarah`s side, & with the help of Nasar, the firm`s legendary clerk, Buchanan plunged into the strange & complex world of Pakistan`s justice system. The work was arduous, underfunded, & dangerous. But for a young Scottish lawyer like Buchanan it was an unparalleled education, offering a window onto a much-misunderstood country & culture. Filled with beautifully drawn characters
- from blasphemers reading Richard Dawkins in Karachi to Pakistani shepherds caught up in the US war on terror
- she creates a narrative brimming with ideas & bursting with humanity. It is a story of Pakistan, but it is also a universal story of the pursuit of justice in an uncertain world.


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Multi-award-winning, bestselling duo Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen conspire again on a slyly funny tale about some very sneaky shapes. From the award-winning team behind Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, & illustrated by Jon Klassen, the Kate Greenaway-winning creator of This Is Not My Hat & I Want My Hat Back, comes the first tale in an exciting new trilogy. Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks... Visually stunning & full of wry humour, here is a perfectly-paced treat that flips the traditional concept book, & approaches it from a whole new angle. ...

Multi-award-winning, bestselling duo Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen conspire again on a slyly funny tale about some very sneaky shapes.” Picture book lovers will find much to like in Triangle” Guardian From the award-winning team behind Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, & illustrated by Jon Klassen, the Kate Greenaway-winning creator of This Is Not My Hat & I Want My Hat Back, comes the first tale in an exciting new trilogy. Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks... Visually stunning & full of wry humour, here is a perfectly-paced treat that flips the traditional concept book, & approaches it from a whole new angle. ...

A French globe that is mounted on a decorative h&-polished & distressed rosewood stand with accents of polished brass. Made using original charts & researched for historical accuracy & visual appeal. Admittedly, Marie Antoinette wasn’t remembered for her intellectual exploits. But during her time France sent expeditions around the globe. Undoubtedly a globe of some kind, probably similar to our Trianon, adorned, or perhaps dominated her library. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Compose a meaningful letter that will delight. Enjoy the wood boxes finished in rich & lustrous black, locking with solid bronze hardware. This portable kit comes with two pens, 10 interchangeable nibs, five colors of ink, & a bronze reading glass. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Now available in paperback, ” Tribe” tells the story of Bruce Parry`s time spent understanding 15 remote native tribes around the world, a remarkable journey that became a successful BBC series. Over several years, Parry spent a month living with 15 different tribes in remote regions of the world. The result is an insight into wildly differing cultures that are vibrant, hospitable & full of spirit despite numerous hardships. Parry`s insatiable curiosity takes him deep into the heart of each community, whether they be forest people, cannibals or nomadic herders, where beyond the obvious differences, he finds the same loves, trials & issues we have the world over. His encounters also throw up some thought-provoking & challenging questions: is change good? Should we protect tribes people? &, more importantly, who are we to impose our own cultural sensitivities in our judgement of their customs? Along the way, Parry takes part in some ridiculously dangerous rituals, which include taking mammoth amounts of a potentially lethal hallucinogen, having his penis forced back into his body & eating rats` livers cake. He also forges new friendships that will last him a lifetime. ...

This is the story of a television camera crew who, in 1968, attempted to make contact with the Kreen-Akrore
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From the author of THE PERFECT STORM & WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, & what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder & the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they`ve suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return. One of the most puzzling things about veterans who experience PTSD is that the majority never even saw combat-and yet they feel deeply alienated & out of place back home. The reason may lie in our natural inclination, as a species, to live in groups of thirty to fifty people who are entirely reliant on one another for safety, comfort & a sense of meaning: in short, the life of a soldier. It is one of the ironies of the modern age that as affluence rises in a society, so do rates of suicide, depression & of course PTSD. In a wealthy society people don`t need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead much lonelier lives that lead to psychological distress. There is a way for modern society to reverse this trend, however, & studying how veterans react to coming home may provide a clue to how to do it. But it won`t be easy. ...

” Tribes of the Great Rift Valley” is a celebration & photographic study of the traditional peoples who occupy the tiny, remote villages scattered across the deserts, plains, hills & forests of the Great Rift Valley. From the red-ochre-painted warriors of Samburu to the Mursi with their jutting lip-plates to the guinea-fowl-painted faces of the Karo, the people of the Rift Valley remain among the most untouched & unchanged on the planet. This gorgeously illustrated book provides sweeping views of this wild landscape & its people, from the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Eritrea, across the Ethiopian highlands, & down to the great lakes & primordial forests of Kenya, Tanzania & Malawi. These fascinating cultures are remarkably diverse, yet nearly all of their communities & traditions face extinction due to Western influence. For the people of the Rift Valley, this book serves as a historic record of the living traditions they have carried with them into the twenty-first century. For those outside of Africa`s borders, it serves as a family reunion, bringing the viewer into the world of their lost African relatives. This journey into the heart of Africa is designed to be a broad profile of tribal humanity to which every reader has a connection & provides a lasting record, perhaps even the last record, of a quickly disappearing way of life. ...