To pack for East Africa: binoculars for spotting zebudown jacket for the climb up Kilimanjaromosquito net for camping on the multi-day safarithis phrasebook for everything else Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical & social words & phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals & discover their culture
- a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.
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The Swahili-speaking coast of Africa has many attractions: its beaches safaris & great cultural diversity. This dictionary & phrasebook contains all of the vocabulary & phrases necessary to communicate in Swahili the most widely spoken African language. Designed for the visitor the phrasebook offers terms & phrases for travel & daily life situations; a two-way dictionary contains over 2500 essential Swahili words. A basic Swahili grammar & cultural information arc also included. Spoken originally along the eastern coast (the name ki Swahili means coastal language) & now the official language of Tanzania as well as a major language in Kenya Uganda & the eastern Congo Swahili is the lingua franca of Eastern Africa with over 40 million speakers. ...

Rowan is desperate for a horse of her own
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John Susan Titty & Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies Nancy & Peggy otherwise known as the Amazon pirates. But immediately disaster strikes when the Swallows find themselves marooned ashore by the shipwreck of their boat. But if they can't have the island there's always Swallowdale the secret valley hidden from the world & containing an extra secret concealed within it... ...

The world that the children enter as soon as they get off the train in the Lake District is as separate from their everyday world as Hogwarts or Narnia... For most readers the idea of cooking trout you have caught yourself is as strange & poetic as the idea of casting a spell that turns a teacup into a turtle. --Guardian "' Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'" Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout & cooked it yourself? The four Swallows John Susan Titty & Roger return to the lake full of such plans & they can't wait to meet up with Nancy & Peggy the Amazon Pirates. When the " Swallow" is shipwrecked & the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley & things take a turn for the better." ...

Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human half faerie shes caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life but the lives of those she desires & holds dear. Her very existence & her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her producing an heir
- & now after many failed attempts she is pregnant...A triumphant moment but revelation follows revelation: for Merry carries twins & they have more than one father... There are those of her own flesh & blood who want Merry & her unborn children dead but she is a fighter & wields a wild magic. & this is her world. This is where the magical & the mortal intertwine where folklore fantasy & erotically charged adventure collide...
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John Susan Titty & Roger sail their boat Swallow to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring & playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store. Two fierce Amazon Pirates Nancy & Peggy challenge them to war & a summer of battles & alliances ensues. ...

The ultimate children's classic
- long summer days filled with adventure. John Susan Titty & Roger sail their boat Swallow to a
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A master storyteller sympathetically in touch with real children & their interests has created characters who are accepted as friends by children everywhere not to mention plots which are eminently plausible & unexpected.' SUNDAY TIMES in an article listing Swallows & Amazons among '99 Best Books for Children. ...

Swallows & Amazons for ever!' The Walker children
- also known as Captain John Mate Susan Able-Seaman Titty & Ship's Boy Roger
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