This guidebook to Jordan describes a variety of walks treks caves climbs & canyons in this wonderful landscape based around Pella Ajloun the Dead Sea Hills Dana Petra & Wadi Rum & covers Jordans newly-created nature reserves. From its flower-carpeted meadows in the north to spectacular canyons with fast-flowing rivers & from ancient cities to towering mountains caves & vast deserts Jordan has something for everyone. Many of the routes covered were unknown prior to the first edition of this guide & this second edition provides information on new climbing areas & other unexplored regions for those who wish to make their own discoveries. It describes 150 routes in Jordan
- half- to one-day walks & multi-day treks including 30 canyon routes & 5 climbing areas 24 desert & mountain walks & scrambles in Wadi Rum & information on how to get to Jordan when to go what to take & everything you need to know about the routes.
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Jorge Lorenzo really came of age in 2010 when he took the Moto GP season by storm & became the runaway World Champion winning nine of the seasons 18 races finishing on the podium 16 times & accumulating the biggest points score ever achieved in the championship. & he finally toppled team-mate Valentino Rossis domination. Here then is the third edition of Lorenzos quirky insightful & highly readable autobiography updated to cover the 2010 season in full. ...

He may be young only 22 but he has so much to say. In this riveting book updated for this paperback edition to include a new chapter covering the 2009 season Moto G Ps brightest new star Jorge Lorenzo tells it straight taking the reader straight to the emotions conflicts & tensions at the heart of top-level motorcycle racing as well as revealing intimate & thoughtful insight into his own journey to the top of his sport as team-mate to the great Valentino Rossi
- & quite possibly a future holder of Rossis World Champion crown. Everyone loves the non-conformists of sport & here is the personal story of a genuine maverick told with honesty & charm.
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Based on the smash-hit musical that has become one of the most popular childrens plays of all time this beautiful book retells in verse & illustrations one of the most action-packed stories of the Old Testament. The lively lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice & the humorous illustrations by Quentin Blake are a delight for children of all ages. A book to be treasured! Age range: 6+ years ...

On 14 February 1989 Valentines Day Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist & told that he had been sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses which was accused of being against Islam the Prophet & the Quran. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground moving from house to house with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved & combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad & Chekhov
- Joseph Anton". How do a writer & his family live with the threat of murder for over nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in & out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts & actions how & why does he stumble how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles in our time for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen & of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support & understanding from governments intelligence chiefs publishers journalists & fellow writers; & of how he regained his freedom. It is a book of exceptional frankness & honesty compelling provocative moving & of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day."
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Curt Riess was a Jewish Berlin journalist who fled to the USA in 1936. He was a noted war correspondent & returned to Germany in 1945 to witness the collapse of the Third Reich. Towards the end of 1945 he worked day & night on this biography & a year later was able to benefit from the discovery of the Goebbels diaries which were edited by his friend Louis Lochner. Riess said to Lochner ' Goebbels to me is the most outstanding man of the Nazi regime not even barring Adolf Hitler himself'. Riess rendered a real service by meticulously putting together in a readable & graphic way the story of one of the most fascinating albeit vilest characters of the twentieth century. Goebbels is bound to have his permanent place in history even as Mephisto has his in mythology. ...

The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist & essayist Joseph Roth was born in Ukraine in 1894 & died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roths life from his schoolboy years to the veteran of 44 marked by war poverty alcoholism the loss of his wife through madness & two decades of prolific work. It is a deeply moving portrait of the life of the writer as an outsider; in exile from a world he no longer recognized as his own. ...

A powerful novel of family life & human relationships set against the exciting background of a horseracing crime. Richard Pitman introduces a wonderful new hero in Frankie Houlihan a man who quit the priesthood for love & then lost his wife in a terrible accident. Trying to rebuild his life Frankie accepts a job with the security team who investigate criminal activity in the world of horseracing & that is how he gets involved
- in more ways than one
- with a suspenseful story of kidnap cloning & family rivalry in London Lambourn & Dublin. Steeplechasing is still very much a country sport & many of the horses are more like family pets than superstars. One such is Angel Gabriel & when he is kidnapped from the yard run by the Cassidy family the strains on the family have far reaching consequences. & in getting to the root of the scam Frankie Houlihan finds himself travelling down just the road he didnt want to take...back into the tragedy at the heart of his own life.

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The amazing tale of a resourceful & unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838 a young adventurer surrounded by his native troops & mounted on an elephant raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush & declared himself Prince of Ghor the heir to Alexander the Great. Josiah Harlan the first American to set foot in Afghanistan would become the model for Kipling's ' The Man Who Would be King' but the true story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier spy doctor naturalist & writer Harlan set off into the wilds of Central Asia after a failed love affair in 1820. Following a brief stint as a surgeon in the East India Company's army he joined the court of the deposed Afghan monarch Shah Shujah & then slipped into Kabul disguised as a Muslim priest to foment rebellion. For the next two decades he would play a pivotal role in the bloody politics of the region. Using a trove of newly discovered documents including Harlan's long-lost journals Ben Macintyre has followed Harlan's footsteps to uncover an astonishing untold chapter in the history of the Great Game. If you enjoyed William Dalrymple's ' Return of a King' ' Josiah the Great' should be on your reading list. ...

For Josie Rawlings caring for her cantankerous old grandmother & running her vegetable stall in Leicester's market square is hard work. But then things get a whole lot worse when Josie's inheritance is stolen & her granddmother's death brings eviction from the only home she's ever known. Determined to rise above these bitter blows Josie struggles to support herself & desperate for affection stumbles into an ill-fated love affair. But there are those around who do recognise Josie's worth & although she is unaware of it one man in particular is keeping a close eye on her progress... ...