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'If you had to pick two things you wanted - if you had to - what would you pick?'I hesitated. This was a bigger question than usually got asked at these post-match debriefs. 'I suppose the honest answer would be,' I said, still accessing the last pieces of required data...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-03-08
ePub
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A chance conversation with her greengrocer about the media’s portrayal of India inspired journalist Justine Hardy to leave London and, following in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling, spend a year working at The Indian Express in New Delhi. Her new life – with a quirky...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2009-02-02
ePub
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With a baby on the way and a need to make the world safe for infant-kind, an unassuming film-maker from West Virginia employs his complete lack of experience, knowledge and expertise to find the most wanted and dangerous man on earth. Beginning his epic quest in New...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-12-26
ePub
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A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board. In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only cost -50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around London with the shake of a dice and...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2008-11-17
ePub
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"Riding a bike removes the need for clutter, toys, rubbish that other men have to take on holiday. If I want adrenaline, I'll rush a giddy overtake, not rent a jet ski." The world through the eyes of Dan Walsh is never less than Technicolor, and always uninhibited,...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2008-10-23
ePub
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The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'.The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-09-25
ePub
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Asmara is the capital of Eritrea - a surreally Italian city at the centre of an ex-Italian colony that has been at war with its neighbour Ethiopia (who claim sovereignty over Eritrea) for over ten years. Amidst broken palaces (built by the late Ethiopian emperor Haile...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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When you've broken 25 of the USA's most absurd laws, what do you do next? If you're Rich Smith, you return to the scene of the crime, and then:Attend the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, which includes such treats as the Hobo bake sale, a giant parade, a pie and...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Tired of the endless tarmac and Little Chefs, and keen to see more on his travels than the tail-lights of the car in front of him, Robbie Coltrane has set himself quite a challenge. Instead of scaling the Himalayas, trekking across the Antarctic or hacking through the...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Paradise or Bust is the fascinating adventure story of Tribewanted, a revolutionary eco-tourism project founded by twentysomething Ben Keene.As featured in the BBC documentary series, Keene's story follows the ups and downs of a global online network of like-minded...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Kyle MacDonald wanted his own house. The problem was he didn't have a job and he didn't have any money. Thinking back to his childhood he remembered the game he loved to play - Bigger and Better. It was a way of trading your old stuff to get bigger and better new stuff....
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Award-winning food writer Stefan Gates has travelled the world to investigate how people cook, eat and survive in extreme conditions for the acclaimed BBC television series Cooking in the Danger Zone. He drank radioactive wine with babushkas in Chernobyl, ate fat-tailed...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Have you been taken to what you've been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside, only to find there's no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough, and been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint? Walked into an...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram
'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' - Mary Wortley...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-08-14
PDF
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heard the rustle again, too close and too real to ignore. I clutched the flashlight, stuck my head out of the mosquito net… and found myself face-to-face with a jaguar. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to find a hidden...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-07-07
ePub
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The lochside stretch I was rolling through formed the trickily named Achaglachgach Forest, where I panted up and down Glen Achaglachgach, past Achaglachgach House and through Achaglachgach village, which was totally deserted. Maybe they’d all choked to death trying to...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-07-07
ePub
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Hugo Soskin, son of best-selling author on Rennes-le-Chateau Henry Lincoln, has no time for the French Pyrenean village and its mysteries. He is fed up with the whole subject of how a nineteenth-century priest came to be a millionaire overnight and why he built so many...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-06-02
ePub
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I had thought for some time that there must be something funny about Germany because, except for hard-drinking types at the Munich beer festival,I had never heard of anybody going there for a holiday. This was, in my view, the first of two advantages. There are...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2008-03-03
ePub
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