Navigation culture cuisine history & helpful advice for anyone cruising in these glorious waters. Rob Buttress West Aegean Cruising Companion is an authoritative guide intended to help you make the most of your visit to this region. Covering the Gulf of Volos the Sporades Islands & the Evian Gulf the book provides comprehensive pilotage & nautical information as well as suggestions of where to eat & what to do ashore. Also incorporating some practical tips for your passage planning along with a valuable insight into the history & culture of the area the book is enhanced with full colour charts & detailed photography including many spectacular aerial shots. Contents: * Introduction * Distance tables * Chart Symbols & lights * Chapter One Gulf of Volos * Chapter Two Trikeri & Orei Channels * Chapter Three Skiathos & Skopelos * Chapter Four The Outer Sporades * Chapter Five Skiros & Aegean Aevia * Chapter Six Petali Gulf * Chapter Seven The Aevian Gulfs * Glossary * Index ...

D/S Jimmy Suttle has finally tired of the relentless struggle against the rising tide of urban crime in Portsmouth. Surely a job in Major Crimes in the West Country will offer some respite? He finds a remote cottage nestled in a fold of Dartmoor & with his wife & two-year-old daughter heads West for what he is sure will be a saner existence. How wrong could he be? Soon he is investigating the murder of a long-distance rower in the small town of Exmouth. The man rowed in the same 5-man boat as a man who two years before dodged a murder charge when his wife went missing during a cross atlantic rowing challange. There had been tensions between the two. Has a killer killed again? As the job takes over Lizzie Suttle's wife is increasingly unhappy about the move. Trying to juggle family life with her own new job on a local paper isolated in a lonely cottage with a demanding toddler & struggling to make new friends Lizzie thought the whole point of the move was that she & Suttle could at least see more of each other. As his marriage frays at the edges & his first investigation becomes mired Suttle begins to feel the hills around their cottage crowding in the wind over the moors above ever chillier the waters ever greyer. He really has reached land's end... ...

David Soggees slide shows have been captivating railway society gatherings in London & the Home Counties for many years but he has had few pictures published & is probably not so well known outside this area. Now for the first time he has assembled a selection of his photographic masterpieces for a wider audience to enjoy. This album focuses on the Western Region as it was in the late 1950s & early 1960s before diesel traction & the Beeching branch line closure plan had made significant impact. In addition to a wonderful variety of locomotives & routes the images also portray the railway infrastructure of the time & will delight the modeller & historian alike. ...

Mountain ranges rolling plains dramatic deserts & moonscape Badlands: get back to nature with Footprint's fully revised & updated guide to Western Canada. Now in its 4th edition this guide gives you everything you need to get the most from the great outdoors whether you want to strike out on your own or go with an adventure tour operator. Detailed listings include ranches & wilderness lodges B&B s & bush camps plus the best places to eat & crucially how to get around whether it's by car bus train or snowmobile! In-depth listings of all the best adventure activities from hiking & biking to canoeing skiing rock climbing & whitewater rafting Covering British Columbia the Rockies Alberta & the Yukon Thorough listings of where to eat sleep & drink to suit every budget New lightweight hardback format making the guide much more traveller friendly & durable ...

Fully updated this map combines clear design & an easy-to-read scale with more road detail to ensure that you never lose your way. It

Includes:: information on toll points service areas road numbers motorways dual carriageways & wide & narrow local roads. National Parks ski resorts visitor attractions & towns & places of interest are also highlighted. The map is presented in a practical slimline format with a durable weatherproof cover for protection from the elements.

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Includes: Danish Dutch French German Italian Norwegian Portuguese Spanish Sweden & Turkish. Get more from your trip with
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Lakeland Fellranger walking guide by Mark Richards covering 34 summits in the Western Fells of the Lake District including a wide range of walks old & new between the rivers Irt (Ennerdale) to the west & Cocker (Crummockwater / Buttermere) to the east. Among the summits features are fells of high fellwalking ambition such as Pillar High Stile & Haystacks & they shelter wild dales such as Ennerdale & the beautiful lakes of Loweswater & Buttermere. Author Mark Richards combines his passion for the Lake District & artistic flair with all the information the experienced walker needs to explore & enjoy the Western Fells. For each of the 34 hills covered this guide offers a dedicated chapter with full descriptions of a range of new & old routes full-colour Harvey maps & clear elevation diagrams detailed summit panoramas & lots of inspiring photographs. This guide is the fifth to be published in Cicerone's 8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series which provides a comprehensive new guide to the fells of the English Lake District with a selection of new routes up more than 220 hills. ...

The Western Fells offer widely diverse scenery & popular resorts such as Buttermere & Wasdale Head. They include fine peaks such as Pillar & Great Gable that rise close to 3 000 feet. There is also the fascinating Haystacks (where Wainwright asked that his ashes be scattered) & valley & lake scenery of the very best vintage. The Pictorial Guides by A. Wainwright written half a century ago have been treasured by generations of walkers. This edition of The Western Fells is freshly reproduced from Wainwright's original h&-drawn pages. ...

There they sit the great tomes of classical literature taunting you with their length & difficulty as you ask: which books are the most important & why
- & whats actually any good? Why does most writing about the classics have words like seminal or oeuvre in it? What does postmodernism mean? Can I get away with just reading the introduction? Now you can enjoy the classics without fear. This survival kit will guide you painlessly through the Western literary canon century by century: from Ancient Greek drama to the modern novel via Beowulf Chaucer Shakespeare Romantic poetry Tolstoy & Proust. There are entertaining plot summaries unpretentious definitions of literary movements & fresh insights into authors lives. With each work assigned ratings from 1 to 10 on Importance Accessibility & Fun youll discover whats really worth bothering with & what you can safely discard without guilt. This book will make the things youve read clearer inspire you to tackle the ones youve always meant to & make you sound far cleverer than you really are.
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Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive & authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.* Features substantial & carefully chosen excerpts from all the greats of philosophy arranged thematically & chronologically* Readings are introduced & linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments* Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory of knowledge & metaphysics philosophy of mind religion & science moral philosophy (theoretical & applied) political theory & aesthetics* Updated edition now

Includes:: additional contemporary readings in each section* Augmented by two completely new sections on logic & language & philosophy & the meaning of life

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