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'WE COULD BORE OURSELVES TO DEATH, DRINK OURSELVES TO DEATH, OR HAVE A BIT OF AN ADVENTURE...'When they retired Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrowboat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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The real-life stories of the novice monks in Little Angels reflect the lives of many youths in rural Thailand who are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty, broken homes, illiteracy and drug abuse. When all else fails, Buddhism becomes their last resort: providing...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-09-15
ePub
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Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severed human finger… John’s trip to India starts badly when he finds himself looking at the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2009-08-03
ePub
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Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-07-28
ePub
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Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis I Never Knew That About London...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-07-28
ePub
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If you are lucky enough to find your place, you should never actually live in it, never make it your home. And never live with the man you think you cannot live without.Le Village is a small town at the southwestern-most tip of France. Here a young Englishwoman fell in...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-07-28
ePub
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As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective of thirty-two expatriates from seven different...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-07-22
ePub
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Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for alleged Mafia...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-07-02
ePub
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In the 1960s Geoffrey Grigson travelled around England writing the story of the secret landscape that is all around us, if only we take the time to look and see. The result is a book that will take you on an imaginative journey, revealing hidden stories, unexpected...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-07-02
ePub
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Shortly after the 2005 London bombings, Tahir Shah was thrown into a Pakistani prison on suspicion of spying for Al-Qaeda. What sustained him during his terrifying, weeks-long ordeal were the stories his father told him as a child in Morocco.Inspired by this, on his...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-06-30
ePub
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Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says 'The religion of France is food. And wine, of course.' And they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-06-04
ePub
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The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or that we're driving past the exact spot where King Harold was killed,...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2009-05-28
ePub
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When Polly Evans read a survey claiming that the last bastion of masculinity, the real Kiwi bloke, was about to breathe his last, she was seized by a sense of foreboding. Abandoning the London winter she took off on a motorbike for the windswept beaches and golden...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
ePub
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When she learnt that the Chinese had built enough new roads to circle the equator sixteen times, Polly Evans decided to go and witness for herself the way this vast nation was hurtling into the technological age. But on arriving in China she found the building work...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
ePub
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In the dead of winter, Polly Evans ventures to the remote Yukon Territory in Canada's far northwest, where temperatures plunge to minus forty and the sun rises for just a few hours each day. Her mission: to learn to drive sled dogs. But when she arrives, she finds...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
ePub
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After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. But fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
ePub
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In-Flight Entertainment is a classic humour book, an air steward's account of fourteen years' worth of airline incidents, reminding us of the absurdities of flying. This wonderful collection of over 30 eye-opening true stories includes:Lechery at 30,000 Feet;Conduct...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-05-27
ePub
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Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik is a spirited African adventure of a solo woman traveler whose overland excursion across the continent includes challenges, inevitable mishaps, and more than a few debacles.Author and world traveler Marie Javins is an unflappable narrator, who...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2009-05-20
ePub
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Echoing the experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson - who spent several years in the South Pacific - here is the story of a contemporary writer who lived in and came to love the Solomon Islands. Most unexpectedly, Will Randall, once a happy schoolteacher, found himself...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2009-05-14
ePub
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Touring the southern counties of England by foot and on horseback from the white cliffs of Dover to the heart of the countryside, William Cobbett recorded a swiftly changing way of life with energy, wit, passion and principle. Here he juxtaposes lyrical evocations of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-04-02
ePub
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