With the worldwide success of the movie March of the Penguins these fascinating flightless birds have become a symbol of the fragile nature of our ecosystem. Faced with global warming invasive tourism pollution & loss of habitat penguins need our help more than ever to survive. Over the last 18 years Wayne Lynch has travelled thousands of miles to Antarctica the Galapagos Islands Argentina Chile New Zealand & a dozen remote island clusters in the tempestuous Southern Ocean to study & photograph the 17 species of penguins in their natural habitats. In Penguins of the World he documents the extraordinary life cycle of these tough resourceful & beautiful birds in some of the harshest environments imaginable. Lynchs prose is engaging & easy-to-read & his beautiful photographs capture the birds in a wide variety of activities & behaviours. Penguins of the World is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in the future of life on this planet. ...

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except
- hold on a minute
- that's not a simple idea at all. & when you throw in incompetent airline officials amorous Argentine Colonels' wives cunning Bajan drug dealers gay Australian waiters overzealous American anti-terrorist police idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus Archbishop Desmond Tutu & whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up & only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

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The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems at first to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasnt well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron will & a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against another. He was so bad tempered & mean that both his servants & his family hated him. It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death Penhallow was in fact murdered & poisoned. With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday & servants that both feared & despised him there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them turned hatred into murder? ...

The Peninsular War saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Napoleonic Wars. Despite the exposure given this theatre the soldiers who fought there have received little public recognition. The bicentennial commemorations of this war aim to bring the war to wider recognition bringing the Spanish Portuguese & British together in remembering the dead & re-examining the war in a balanced way. This atlas has been put together over the last decade by Colonel Nick Lipscombe of the British Army who is based in Spain & is the chairman for the official organisation in charge of the commemorations. His 30 years of military service have allowed him to bring a unique perspective to this first complete atlas of the war. The mapping is of very high standard & he has re-evaluated several battles in collaboration with Spanish authorities & academics & presents new interpretations of the sources. The 160 maps are accompanied by a text narrating the entire war. This title is a must for anyone interested in Napoleonic history. ...

Every year Penland the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills offers a master class in the art of bookmaking thats simply without equal. Fortunately its available to everyone thanks to this technical & inspirational guide that showcases ten contemporary book artists who have taught at the institution. 400 illuminating photographs highlight the crafters as each one demonstrates all the details of his or her particular expertise. Marvel at the beauty of Dolph Smiths sculptural books the exquisite structure of Jim Crofts carved wood covers & metal closures & the intricacies of Barbara Mauriellos handmade boxes & slipcases. This book

Includes:: reflective essays by all the artists.

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The original Boogie reluctant hero of the South West Peninsular Path was the Mongrel from hell. Mark Wallington's New Boogie like New Labour appears a much trendier & more wholesome incarnation -until that is Mark gets him on the Pennine Way. This is the big one in every sense. Clearly Boogie will do fine -but will Mark be up to the task? ...

To replace its previous two-volume guide to the Pennine Way Aurum now publishes an entirely new one-volume guide for the 21st-century walker. The Pennine Way is Britain's toughest long-distance path running 268 miles from Derbyshire's Peak District up through the Yorkshire Dales Cumbria & Northumberland into the Scottish Borders. Until now Aurum's Trail Guide has covered it in two volumes where our competitors publish one & those volumes have been bulked out with circular day walks which no-one essaying the arduous task of walking even a stretch of the Path will realistically want to divert to do. Now Damian Hall one of Country Walking's senior contributors has written a completely new guide giving all the information the modern walker requires: GPS references gradients of each section public transport links extensive details of the wildlife & flora to be seen along the way & a guide for occasional walkers to the real highlight stretches of the path. ...

Practical guide with 137 large scale maps (1:20 000).

Includes:: accommodation guide pubs & restaurants & public

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A complete map-guide split in two maps (Pennine Way South & Pennine Way North) giving lots of information for walkers including transport & accommodation provisions & supply points description of terrain hints on navigation. Based on Ordnance Survey mapping. Waterproof paper. ...

A complete map-guide split in two maps (Pennine Way South & Pennine Way North) giving lots of information for walkers including transport & accommodation provisions & supply points description of terrain hints on navigation. Based on Ordnance Survey mapping. Waterproof paper. ...