Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices & ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl & mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters & eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric & utterly original prose. ...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona's examination of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past & also to the present-day voices of its patients. ...

Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. ...

Join Alan Herd for an unforgettable trip along Britain's canals. Join master craftsman Alan Herd as he journeys around the canals & waterways of Britain in search of surviving examples of boat building craft & restores an old 70-foot working boat into a state-of-the-art floating holiday home. The series celebrates the enchanting industrial past of Britain's canals & also looks to the future as Alan fulfills a lifelong ambition by painstakingly converting an 80-year-old traditional working boat into a truly 21st century luxury vessel. Narrow Boat follows Alan through the transformation process & then on to the IWA National Boat Show in a bid to win first prize for his efforts. ...

Enjoy completing this 500 piece jigsaw puzzle with a beautiful image of a narrowboat. Puzzle measures 48cm x 35cm. Interesting facts: A narrowboat is a boat of a distinctive design, made to fit the narrow canals of Great Britain. In the context of British Inland Waterways, 'narrowboat' refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals. ...

Squeeze this super soft Narwhal Plush Squishy toy & watch as it slowly rises back to shape!

This amazing Narwhal Squidgie

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A lovely ballpoint pen with patterned Narwhal design barrel & black ink.

A fashionable little stationery gift for both

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Squeeze the Narwhal & watch as it pushes out out amazing glittery slime.

This Narwhal Squeezy Keyring is perfect for having

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A brilliant blue biro pen with a novelty squeezy narwhal toy on top.

A fantastic gift for school or work
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Squeeze this super soft squidgy Narwhal shaped toy & watch as it slowly rises back to shape! Super squeezable & squishy.



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