It s easy to see why Hawaii has become synonymous with paradise. Just look around at the sugary beaches Technicolor coral reefs & volcanoes ready for adventure. Sara Benson Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about each & every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage & you can rely on us to tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 8 fun-&-sun loving authors 24 itineraries 179 beaches Miles of hiking trails Inspirational photos Clear easy-to-use maps Outdoor activities chapter In-depth background Comprehensive planning tools Easy-to-read layout ...

New edition. 1: 330 000 scale. Detailed relief shading clearly shows spot heights & mountain ranges giving a real sense of the terrain with distances provided for main routes & dates of various lava flows indicated. Numerous points of interest are highlighted such as national parks & ancient sites. With enlarged area maps in scale 1: 125 000 covering: Kapaau & Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as well as City Plans for: Hilo Honokaa Waimea (Kamuela) Kailua-Kona Keauhou Captain Cook in 1: 35 000 scale. ...

Sarah Halls first novel is set in 1936 in a remote dale in the old county of Westmoreland & tells of the flooding of the dale to make way for a reservoir against the wishes of many of the local hill farmers. It is a story of love obsession & the destruction of a community. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

...

The year 1790 & England is on the cusp of war with Revolutionary France. The night-time Channel is the scene of intense smuggling activity & the passage of spies from one coast to another. Lieutenant James Hayter has achieved his heart's desire
- his first independent command His Majesty's ' Hawk' cutter 10 guns. She is swift enough to out sail even the fastest of the French contraband runners & she is Hayter's pride & joy. But his happiness is tempered by the knowledge that his former captain & friend William Rennie has been left on the beach after the failure of the Rabhet expedition the previous year. But it is not long before spymaster Sir Robert Greer disturbs Rennie's imposed retirement with a sinister & irrefutable offer that will see Rennie hastening to join his former subordinate in Portsmouth. Together they will have to tackle one of the most sensitive & dangerous missions of the phoney war to intercept a contraband runner the cutter ' Lark' & capture her captain a disgraced Navy lieutenant. But as with all matters orchestrated by Greer the mission is about a lot more than capturing a few barrels of brandy & a wanted criminal. In fact it is soon evident that the very security of the nation depends on Rennie & Hayter's success.
...

1072 AD. The Normans have captured Engl&. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. & in order to free him a Frank warrior named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. In the company of a Sicilian scholar & an English falconer Vallon sets off a heart-stopping odyssey to the far ends of the earth
- from Greenland to Russia to Constantinople across raging Arctic seas & blood-drenched battlefields. Braving Viking warlords vengeful Normans & the unforgiving elements Vallon & his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time. Ten years in the making Hawk Quest is high adventure in the grand tradition of Bernard Cornwell & Robyn Young an epic story packed with visceral combat marvellous period detail & gripping suspense. The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This is
- Hawk Quest

...

While sailing in the Caribbean young Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror as modern-day pirates brutally murder his parents. It is a tragedy that will haunt him forever & shape his destiny. As a direct descendant of a legandary English pirate Lord Alexander Hawke is skilled in the ways of sea combat
- & one of Britain's most decorated naval heroes. Now Hawke returns to the Caribbean on a secret mission for the American government. A highly experimental stealth submarine is missing. She carries forty nuclear warheads & is believed to be in the hands of an unstable government just ninety miles from the US mainl&. In a race against time Hawke must locate the sub before a strike can be launched against the US
- & after a lifetime of nightmares finally avenge himself on the mean who slaughtered his family.. .

...

The brutal murder of a promiscuous young wife & the disappearance of her baby son bring Superintendent Amos Hawke & Sergeant Tom Churchyard to a tiny moorland village in nineteenth-century Cornwall where the residents harbour dark secrets. The two policemen believe the murderer will be found within the isolated & insular community but unravelling the tangled web of lies & deceit proves frustrating. Is the answer to the mystery held by the young gypsy girl whose appearance on the scene has disturbing ramifications for Tom Churchyard? ...

Directly descended from some of the fastest most beautiful & most effective military aircraft of the 1930s the Hawker Hurricane was the RAFs first monoplane fighter & the hero of the Battle of Britain. This photographic study takes us under the skin of the aircraft to the very first principles of the design & construction of this beautiful fighter. Using archive & specially taken photographs many shot behind the scenes at AJD Engineering
- Hurricane restoration experts
- the author shows in detail how the Hurricane is put together revealing details rarely seen & providing a useful resource for the modeller & the aviation enthusiast.

...

During the Battle of Britain the RAFs Hawker Hurricane fighter won lasting fame alongside the Supermarine Spitfire. Over 11 700 examples were eventually built of this versatile & deadly combat aircraft that fulfilled an incredible number of contrasting roles. This innovative manual provides a close-up look at the Hurricanes construction together with insights into what it takes to own & fly this classic fighter & how engineers keep it airworthy as well as the historical background of the aircrafts illustrious Second World War combat history. The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flights two Hurricane IIc models are the centrepiece of this manual. ...