Looks at a day in the life of Bob. Find out what he does on the moon: cleaning & tidying, welcoming vistors, performing tricks for tourists & much more. He knows almost everything there is to know about the moon
- but there's something going on behind his back that he hasn't spotted. Age 3+.
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The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul Mc Cartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, Mc Cartney cut a very different figure. He was, literally, a man on the run. Desperately trying to escape the shadow of the Beatles, he became an outlaw hippy millionaire, hiding out on his Scottish farmhouse in Kintyre before travelling the world with makeshift bands & barefoot children. It was a time of numerous drug busts & brilliant, banned & occasionally baffling records. For Mc Cartney, it was an edgy, liberating & sometimes frightening period of his life that has largely been forgotten. Man on the Run paints an illuminating picture: from Mc Cartney's nervous breakdown following the Beatles' split through his apparent victimisation by the authorities to the rude awakening of his imprisonment for marijuana possession in Japan in 1980 & the shocking wake-up call of John Lennon's murder. Ultimately, it poses the question: if you were one quarter of the Beatles, could you really outrun your past? ...

Finally, a book that teaches a man how to be a man, that harks back to a less sheltered & pampered age when, without the aid of technology, men had to use their military training & outdoor skills, & were prepared for any eventuality. Man Up! offers useful but often long-neglected skills & imparts wisdom gleaned from many sources. Learn & relearn forgotten skills like how to light a fire in a downpour, set a broken limb or harvest food from the wild, among many other skills that a true adventurer cannot do without. Presented in an elegantly designed, but hardy, volume, Man Up! teaches the importance of self-reliance, common sense & background knowledge. With this book every man will be able to overcome whatever perils & difficulties he might encounter in the course of an adventurous life. ...

Details: The fully revised & updated 2012 edition of the Man United Miscellany is essential reading for fans in the red
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Adam Walker is not your everyday record-breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet
- to swim
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On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days & 17 hours previously, he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. This title presents the story of that amazing achievement. ...

When Monty Roberts was 13 years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch Mustangs in the wild. What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life & earned him recognition among horse breeders & trainers around the world. This is his autobiography. ...

Discusses essential stories & parables from the world's great wisdom traditions of Zen, Taoism, Christianity, & Judaism. This book presents a collection of stories which have been interpreted & applied to the concerns of modern day life. It

Includes:: such topics as the futility of chasing happiness, & the journey from fear to freedom.

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Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts. He couldn't pass a stray dog, an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue. & with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking, which didn't please their erring husbands one bit. ...

Star of TV's Salvage Hunters, Drew Pritchard will go to the greatest lengths for the best deals.

He discovered the

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