' Tim & I both understood we had done something really stupid. We had underestimated the danger involved in going out to sea. We had no radio compass life raft or flares. In other words we were a couple of idiots'. This is the story of Shane & Timothy Spall & their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas & a vast amount of ignorance
- & it is absolutely terrifying! On their travels memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside but also of more recent times. A decade before Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia & was given only days to live. Shocked at how life can pass you by they decided that when & if Tim got better they would buy a boat. As Tim & Shane explore the coast from the Medway to Cornwall eventually they start to wonder could they make it out of England altogether? Could Matilda make it to.. . Wales? Taking over five years The Voyages of The Princess Matilda" is a minor epic charting a very personal moving & uplifting story of an everyday couple's adventure around their much loved homel&."
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' Tim & I both understood we had done something really stupid. We had underestimated the danger involved in going out to sea. We had no radio compass life raft or flares. In other words we were a couple of idiots.' This is the story of Shane & Timothy Spall & their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas & a vast amount of ignorance
- & it is absolutely terrifying! On their travels memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside but also of more recent times. A decade before Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia & was given only days to live. Shocked at how life can pass you by they decided that when & if Tim got better they would buy a boat. As Tim & Shane explore the coast from the Medway to Cornwall eventually they start to wonder could they make it out of England altogether? Could Matilda make it to... Wales? Taking over five years The Voyages of The Princess Matilda" is a minor epic charting a very personal moving & uplifting story of an everyday couple's adventure around their much loved homel&. It is a winner of the British Travel Press' Narrative Travel Book of the Year Award."
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A popular guide to the states canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers the great fur traders voyageurs Indians & loggers who passed that way. Photographs & maps support the fascinating authoritative text. ...

It was a 1972 Rally 200 in the same shade of orange as Donatella Versace with white go-fast stripes down each side. It was bright & brash & made every other Vespa in the workshop look dull. Even sitting on its stand it had a swagger. Best-selling writer & traveller Peter Moore decides to go on an adventure through Sicily Sardinia & the Amalfi Coast as a last fling before the onset of fatherhood. Riding his bright orange Vespa Marcello through some of the worlds most stunning scenery Peter meets a multitude of interesting characters & discovers a side of Italy that tourists rarely see. Eliciting free beers from barmen swoons from young women & beeps & whistles from other drivers Peter finds that this most Italian of machines draws him deep into the heart of this fascinating & fun-loving country. ...

It was the late night Tai Bo fitness commercial warning him that life comes to an end after 40 that prompted Peter Moore to chase a boyhood dream. To go to Italy & seek out its celebrated dolce vita from the back of a Vespa. But it couldnt be just any old Vespa. Peter wanted a bike as old as he was & in the same sort of condition: a little rough round the edges a bit slow in the mornings perhaps but basically still OK. & it had to have saddle seats. & temperamental electrics. & a little too much chrome. The sort of scooter youd imagine a sharp-suited Ray Ban-wearing young Marcello Mastroianni riding. Her name was Sophia. From picnicking in the Italian alps & rattling through cobbled hilltop to gate-crashing Frances Mayess villa & re-enacting Roman Holiday Vroom with a View is as much a romance as a travel adventure. For not only does Peter win the woman of his dreams he falls for a side of Italy others rarely see. Along with Sophia of course... ...

Decimus Rex reunites with his five friends to follow a message sent to them all from Teo
- a friend they know to be dead. It begs
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Decimus Rex & his four friends sail to China on the trail of the Golden Warrior & in search of Teo. But they are captured by the King of Yelang & imprisoned in his Water Maze? What connections does the King have with Slavious Doom & will they ever escape? ...

Having escaped the dreaded water maze the five friends now have a new enemy
- they are being hunted by three ninjas
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Our hero returns home expecting peace only to face his worst nightmare An old enemy has returned & will stop at nothing in his quest for power. But when he kidnaps Decimus parents & captures his friends Decimus is forced to go & face his only undefeated enemy yet. Is Decimus really the hero that everyone says or has his luck finally run out.. . ...

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943.. . April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer. & fast. The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped & the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers & seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target & give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later a formation of elderly British jets launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At its head was a single aircraft six men & twenty-one thous&-pound bombs facing the hornet's nest of modern weaponry defending the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. There would be no second chances.. . ...