Between 1271 & 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father & uncle on a journey along the fabled Silk Road to Central Asia. Reaching China & the court of the Great Khan, Polo travelled extensively through the lands of the Mongols for the next seventeen years. In 1925 the party set sail for home, calling at Sumatra, southern India & Persia along the way, before completing their journey overland to Venice. From the dazzling glories of 13th-century Venice to the haunting bleakness of the Asian steppe & the splendours of the court of Kublai Khan, acclaimed popular historian Laurence Bergreen offers us a thrilling & masterly reconstruction of Marco Polo's life & writings. This is narrative history at its most accomplished, by a writer at the height of his descriptive & story-telling powers. ...

Details: Experience all of Edinburgh's attractions with this up-to-date, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips.
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Marcus Wareing is a brilliant chef. His restaurant group Marcus Wareing Restaurants

Includes:: three critically-acclaimed

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Pauper's Gold
- Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother & the life she knows in the silk-mill town of Macclesfield
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Like most authors, Margaret Laurence's work drew on the community in which she lived, & the culture of the area informed the tone of her work. This biography of Margaret Laurence communicates about the decency & complexity of both the author & Canadian culture. It traces the spiritual core & growth of one of Canada's most powerful artists. ...

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of ? The Path to Power? & ? The Downing Street Years?; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. Now following her death in 2013, this is her own account of her remarkable life. Beginning with her upbringing in Grantham, she goes on to describe her entry into Parliament. Rising through the ranks of this mans world, she led the Conservative Party to victory in 1979, becoming Britain's first woman prime minister. Offering a riveting firsthand version of the critical moments of her premiership ? the Falklands War, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb & her unprecedented three election victories, the book reaches a gripping climax with an hour-by-hour description of her dramatic final days in 10 Downing Street. Margaret Thatcher's frank & compelling autobiography stands as a powerful testament to her influential legacy. ...

Details: A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of ? The Path to Power? & ? The Downing Street Years?; this
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There was a time when there were no more than a handful of women in the House of Commons
- & Thatcher rose to the top battling
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No Prime Minister of modern times has sought to change Britain & its place in the world as radically as Margaret Thatcher. In The Downing Street Years, the Iron Lady charts her time at the helm of British politics, the reasons for her beliefs & how she sough to put them into action. This book has 914 pages & is 19.7cm x 12.9cm x 5.9cm. ...

Yo ho ho, me hearties. Marge is back! This time theres a baby on the loose.

Meet Zara, the naughty little cousin, who

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