We only get one life so we owe it to ourselves to see as much of this beautiful world as possible. For many of us lying on a beach for two weeks each year is just not enough any more. We want to see ancient monuments extraordinary scenery endangered wildlife foreign cultures architecture & art
- places that give us the chance to grow & expand our horizons. Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die will help you search out some of these essential destinations & experiences. International travel writer & photographer Steve Davey has drawn on his years of experience in selecting forty of his favourite places. Some such as the Taj Mahal & the Alhambra are relatively well-known but most such as the incredible temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia & the amazing sand dunes of Dead Vlei in the Namib desert are very much off the beaten track. Some such as Venice or New York involve relatively comfortable journeys whilst others present more of a challenge
- crossing the wilderness to see the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela in Ethiopia for example or trekking for nine days at altitude to see the stunning Himalayan scenery around Makalu in Nepal. Although there are plenty of tips for travellers this is not a travel guide & is certainly not definitive but it will introduce you to a host of spectacular locations all of which can be visited in a holiday of two weeks or less. Beautifully illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs this is a book that will inspire you to think beyond the walls of your room & take time out to visit some of the worlds truly unforgettable places.

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He was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908-15) & the most celebrated
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They were the team from nowhere... In 1961 when Don Revie became manager of Leeds United they were a struggling Second Division club. By 1974 they had won two League Championships the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (twice) the FA Cup & the League Cup & players like Jack Charlton & Billy Bremner were household names. Yet this was a team that inspired not admiration not grudging respect but a deep & visceral loathing matched only by the bellicose devotion of their own supporters. The undeniable artistry of players like striker Alan Clarke was overshadowed by a ruthless
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- professionalism symbolised by the scything tackles of Norman Hunter. The new Leeds
- especially in the intimidating arena of Elland Road
- took no prisoners. At the heart of their outlaw status was the eccentric superstitious personality of Revie himself. Clad in his lucky blue suit a man for whom team-building meant rounds of carpet bowls here reigned less a football manager than in his own estimation the head of the family. But whenever his great Leeds United side were let off the leash
- the 7-0 humiliation of Southampton is enshrined in Match of the Day mythology
- their brilliance was compelling. So compelling it was almost cruel. The Unforgiven" is the full story of the most defiantly unconventional team in British football. The book is reissued to coincide with the release of BBC Films adaptation of David Peaces bestselling " The Damned United" (9780571224333)
- starring Michael Sheen as Brian Clough & adapted by Peter Morgan (The Queen). It

Includes:: a new chapter detailing the aftermath of the Revie era
- including Brian Cloughs infamous 44 days at Elland Road; Revies tenure as England manager; & his continuing influence on Leeds fortunes to this very day."









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This is a stunning magical story of a summer of friendship with darker undertones of the plight of refugees. Two refugee brothers ...

A sports journalist sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway station. Memories of one of his best most trusted friends a tragically young victim of cancer begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a football match. B. S. Johnsons famous book in a box in which the chapters are presented unbound to be read in any order the reader chooses is one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest. It is a book of passionate honesty & dark courageous humour: a meditation on death & a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author. ...

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard DS Wesley Peterson immediately suspects foul play. Then history provides him with a clue. Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson has excavated a corpse at his nearby dig
- a young woman who local legend has it had been publicly hanged from the very same tree before being buried on unhallowed ground five centuries ago. Wesley is now forced to consider the possibility that the killer knows the tree's dark history. Has Pauline also been 'executed' rather than murdered & if so for what crime? To catch a dangerous killer Wesley has to discover as much as he can about the victim. But Pauline appears to have been a woman with few friends no relatives & a past she has carefully tried to hide.. .
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Thomas atte Bridge a man no one likes is found hanging from a tree near Cow-leys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life but Master Hugh & Kate find evidence that this may not be so. Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas & Hugh is not eager to send one of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet atte Bridges partner in crime in A CORPSE AT ST. ANDREWS CHAPEL was covertly in Bampton at the time atte Bridge died. Master Hugh is convinced that Kellet has murdered atte Bridge
- one rogue slaughtering another. He sets out for Exeter where Kellet now works. But there he discovers that the priest is an emaciated skeleton of a man who mourns the folly of his past life. Hugh must return to Bampton & discover which of his friends has murdered his enemy.. .
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In March 1807 the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading & transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery as it was known then was abolished & slavery still continues today in different ways but it was a big step forward towards the empancipation of a people. Malorie Blackman has drawn together some of the finest of today's writers & poets to contribute to this important anthology. Their short stories & poems sit alongside first-hand accounts of slavery from freed slaves making a fascinating & absorbing collection that remembers & commemorates one of the most brutal & long-lasting inflictions of misery that human beings have inflicted upon other human beings. ...

In 1350 the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death. Bands of outlaws roam the land & the high death rate among priests & monks has left the people vulnerable to sinister cults that have grown up in the wake of the plague. At Michaelhouse Matthew Bartholomew is training new physicians to replace those who died of the pestilence. When the body of a friar is found in the massive chest where the University stores its most precious documents Bartholomew is dragged away from his teaching to investigate. But the friars is not the only unexplained death in town. Almost by chance Bartholomew stumbles across a derelict church abandoned since its congregation were decimated by the plague. It is now the meeting place for a mysterious sect which holds its followers in terror & which Bartholomew believes to be at the very heart of an astonishing web of blackmail & deceit aimed to overthrow the established religion. ...

First light Ascension morning. From the top of the tower at the College of Transfiguration voices rise in song. Felicity's delight turns to horror when a black-robed body hurtles over the precipice & lands at her feet. Her fiance Father Antony recognizes the corpse as Hwyl Pendry a former student who has been serving as Deliverance Minister in a Welsh diocese. The police ignoring the strange emblem of a double-headed snake clutched in the dead man's hand label the death as suicide. But Hwyl's widow is convinced otherwise & please for Felicity & Antony to help her uncover the truth. Matters grow murkier as Felicity & Antony leading a youth pilgrimage through rural Wales encounter the same sinister symbol as they travel. Lurking figures following them. Then a body is found face-down in a well... ...