A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding & breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselves. Simon Winchester`s breathtaking story delves deep beneath the surface of the earth & explains to us why the world moves as it does, & breaks apart with such devastating results. At the same time he never lets us forget the human story. As he vividly portrays the lives of the people who suffered & survived the devastation he also tells a universal story: the hubris of man as he ignores the warnings of nature & how we respond & try to understand the world around us. Compelling, moving & enlightening, Simon Winchester reveals the world beneath our feet & through the story of this one terrifying event one hundred years ago, begins to make sense of our world now. ...

A memoir of brutality, heroism & personal discovery from Europe`s dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World War. In the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, & the German aristocrats & SS officers dancing & drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish labourers waited, made them strip naked, & shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party. It remained a secret for decades, until Sacha Batthyany, who remembered his great-aunt Margit only vaguely from his childhood as a stern, distant woman, began to ask questions about it.A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany`s memoir of confronting these questions, & of the answers he found. It is one of the last untold stories of Europe`s nightmare century, spanning not just the massacre at Rechnitz, the inhumanity of Auschwitz, the chaos of wartime Budapest & the brutalities of Soviet occupation & Stalin`s gulags, but also the silent crimes of complicity & cover-up, & the damaged generations they leave behind. Told partly through the surviving journals of others from the author`s family & the vanished world of Rechnitz, A Crime in the Family is a moving & revelatory memoir in the vein of The Hare with the Amber Eyes & The House by the Lake. It uncovers barbarity & tragedy but also a measure of peace & reconciliation. Ultimately, Batthyany discovers that although his inheritance might be that of monsters, he does not bear it alone ...

A seductive story of suspicion, fear & moral corruption, this is the tale of 10-year-old Marsha. Her life is in turmoil following the collapse of her parents` marriage, & the brutal murder of a local boy. When the shy bachelor from next door begins to take an interest in Marsha`s mother, Marsha is drawn into a cruel spiral of events that quickly spins out of control. ` Immaculate & impressive`
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Far away, in the ancient empire of Greater Fallowfields, things are falling apart. The imperial orchestra is presided over by a conductor who has never played a note, the clocks are changed constantly to ensure that the sun always sets at five o` clock, & the Astronomer Royal is only able to use the observatory telescope when he can find a sixpence to put in its slot. But while the kingdom drifts, awaiting the return of the young emperor, who has gone abroad & communicates only by penny post, a sinister & unfamiliar enemy is getting closer & closer...A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest & Looked In is Magnus Mills`s most ambitious work to date. A surreal portrait of a world that, although strange & distant, contains rather too many similarities to our own for the alien not to become brilliantly familiar & disturbingly close to home. It is comic writing at its best
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A Cruising Guide to Puerto Rico, including the Spanish Virgin Islands & the north coast ports of the Dominican Republic: is the most comprehensive guide ever written for Puerto Rico. Its 53 detailed, full-color charts contain extremely accurate hydrographic data based on personally conducted independent surveys by the author. It also contains GPS waypoints & extensive navigational instructions for the whole island chain, aerial photos of principal harbors, approaches & routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history, index, bibliography & more. It will greatly enhance your cruising experiences throughout the islands by offering you valuable information based on local knowledge. ...

A Cruising Guide to the Leeward Islands is the completely updated 2nd edition of Stephen Pavlidis`s comprehensive guide to the Leeward Islands. Now in full colour, with many new charts & aerial photographs of the principal harbours, it contains 294 pages of text & 85 sketch charts from GPS-accurate data based on independent surveys personally conducted by the author. ...

Covering the northern coast of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, mainland Honduras & the Bay Islands, Guatemala & the Rio Dulce, this guide provides the first new coverage of these Northwest Caribbean regions since 1990. All charts are original & based on personal surveys conducted by the author.

Includes:: extensive navigational instructions & GPS waypoints, plus the first ever detailed cruising guide coverage of the Cayman Islands.

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A Cruising Guide to the Windward Islands, 2nd ed. is the completely updated version of Steve Pavlidis’ comprehensive Windward Islands guide that covers the stretch of islands from Martinique to Trinidad & Tobago known as the Windward Islands. Now in full-color with many new charts & full-color aerial photos of principal harbors. It contains 370 pages of text with 112 full-color sketch charts including GPS accurate data that is based on surveys personally conducted by the author. In addition it contains detailed piloting instructions, GPS waypoints, aerial photos, approaches & routes, anchorages, services, dive sites, history, basic information for cruising in the Caribbean, extensive appendices, index, bibliography & more.A Cruising Guide to the Windward Islands, 2nd ed. will greatly enhance your cruising experiences in this region by giving you valuable information based on actual experience & local knowledge. ...

Completely updated versions of the Pavlidis Bahamas Guides. All original charts based on personal surveys conducted by the author. Extensive navigational instructions & GPS waypoints.

Includes:: new full colour aerial photos & charts.

Includes:: sections on Crossing the Great Bahama Bank, The Abacos, The Berry Islands, Grand Bahama, New Providence, The Biminis, Eleuthera, Andros & Cat Isl&.



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Completely updated versions of the Pavlidis Bahamas Guides. All original charts based on personal surveys conducted by the author. Extensive navigational instructions & GPS waypoints. Coverage

Includes::- Cat Isl&, The Jumentos, Conception Island & Ragged Isl&, Rum Cay, The Crooked Island District, San Salvador, Mayaguana, Long Isl&, Inagua, The Turks & Caicos Islands & The Dominican Republic North Coast Ports.

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