Blue Ice is the new book from photographer Alex Bernasconi whose unique approach to wildlife photography has been honoured with multiple prestigious awards. Bernasconi`s breathtaking panoramas reveal the spectacular beauty of the Antarctic landscape shaped by its extreme climate, while his wildlife portraits depict the surprising diversity of Species, highly adapted to the challenging conditions in which they live. A foreword by the British glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, explains the dynamics of the geography & ice masses, & the effects of climate change, while Dr Peter Clarkson draws on his personal experiences as a member of the British Antarctic Survey in his introduction, which also recounts the challenges of working & living in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Blue Ice provides a remarkable Visual record of an eco-system at risk, revealing the extraordinary, unexpected beauty of the Antarctic, the most remote & endangered place on Earth. ...

The Queen of Darkness lives deep underground beneath a mountain with her child, Blue John, a boy she made from the blue of the glacier & the hot yellow light of the sun. Blue John is forbidden to leave his mother`s side, but the lure of the light above is too strong. When a singing, dancing girl comes to the caves, Blue John must make a choice between darkness & light. A heart-warming story that embraces the beauty & colours of the natural world. High quality cream paper & a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all. ...

Inspired by the still unsolved murder of a Japanese family in 2000, Blue Light Yokohama is 2017`s most original & gripping crime debut.. . Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo`s homicide department, is assigned a new partner & a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails & shunned by her colleagues, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai is a partner Iwata decides it would be unwise to cross. A case that`s complicated
- a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web & painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom ceiling before he left in broad daylight. A case that so haunted the original investigator that he threw himself off the city`s famous Rainbow Bridge. Carrying his own secret torment, Iwata is no stranger to pain. He senses the trauma behind the killer`s brutal actions. Yet his progress is thwarted in the unlikeliest of places. Fearing corruption among his fellow officers, tracking a killer he`s sure is only just beginning & trying to put his own shattered life back together, Iwata knows time is running out before he`s taken off the case or there are more killings.. . Blue Light Yokohama is crime fiction at its very best
- gripping, haunting, atmospheric & utterly captivating.` Outstanding` Sunday Express ` Tantalising. An intricately constructed whodunit` Publisher`s Weekly ` Obregon is a bright, sophisticated new voice in crime fiction: his writing sings at you, reverberates, makes you consider more than just the urgent clamour of his novel`s well-hewn murder plot. In Inspector Iwata, he has created a quiet, troubled hero whom readers will be sure to follow from one disturbing, atmospheric story to the next` Benjamin Wood, author of The Ecliptic

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Setagaya ward, Tokyo Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo`s homicide department, is assigned a new partner & a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails & shunned by her colleagues, Assistant Inspector Noriko Sakai is a partner Iwata decides it would be unwise to cross. A case that`s complicated
- a family of four murdered in their own home by a killer who then ate ice cream, surfed the web & painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom ceiling before he left in broad daylight. A case that so haunted the original investigator that he threw himself off the city`s famous Rainbow Bridge. Carrying his own secret torment, Iwata is no stranger to pain. He senses the trauma behind the killer`s brutal actions. Yet his progress is thwarted in the unlikeliest of places. Fearing corruption among his fellow officers, tracking a killer he`s sure is only just beginning & trying to put his own shattered life back together, Iwata knows time is running out before he`s taken off the case or there are more killings.. . Blue Light Yokohama is crime fiction at its very best
- gripping, haunting, atmospheric & utterly captivating. Praise for Blue Light Yokahama ` Obregon is a bright, sophisticated new voice in crime fiction: his writing sings at you, reverberates, makes you consider more than just the urgent clamour of his novel`s well-hewn murder plot. In Inspector Iwata, he has created a quiet, troubled hero whom readers will be sure to follow from one disturbing, atmospheric story to the next` Benjamin Wood, author of, The Ecliptic ` Refreshing` ` Engaging` Daily Mail

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In 1969 Peter Matthiessen set out with the expedition led by Peter Gimbel, whose aim was to find & film underwater for the first time the most dangerous of all sea creatures
- the great white shark. Acting as the expedition`s chronicler & spare hand (both on the surface & below), Matthiessen accompanied the crew from the Carribean to the whaling grounds off the Durban coast, to various islands in the Indian Ocean, to Ceylon, & finally to success off the bleak south coast of Australia. Blue Meridian records the awesome experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks, the beauties of strange seas & landscapes & the camaraderie, humour & tension of people who live in close proximity & risk their lives day by day.
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Blue Mountain National Park & Towns, one of five maps designed to cover in greater detail the most popular national parks & recreational areas of New South Wales. The map covers the Blue Mountains National Park & the adjoining state forests, as wells as the Kanangra-Boyd & Abercrombie River National Parks. Topography is indicated by names of various ranges & selected peaks. Public access trails & walking tracks are shown, indicating maintained & not maintained/unmarked routes. An overprint highlights sightseeing routes, information centres & park offices, rest & picnic areas, campsites, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. The map also shows boundaries of restricted entry water catchment areas. Latitude lines are drawn at 7 ...

Detailed mapping of the popular recreational area around the Western Highway as it passes through the Blue Mountains national. Foot tracks, camp sites, golf courses, hotels, libraries, picnic areas, post offices & many other amenities & places of tourist interest are marked. An overview map of the whole of the Blue Mountains National Park is also included. ...

Brisbane Suburbs & City Centre map from UBD Gregory’s, combining a detailed, indexed street plan of the centre with a map of the city with its suburbs & the surrounding area, plus extensive tourist information, Half of one side is taken by a detailed, indexed street plan at 1:5, 000 of the city centre (CBD) including the South Brisbane district with the Convention & exhibition centre. The plan shows one way streets, car parks, various facilities & places of interest, selected hotels, etc. Many individual buildings are named & streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. The rest of the page is filled with tourist information, including descriptions of “ The Best of Brisbane” sights, notes on eating out & getting around, lists of accommodation & city highlights, events & festivals, etc. On the reverse is an indexed road map at 1:100, 000 covering the city with its outer suburbs & the surrounding area. Coverage extends north beyond Redcliff, west to the D’ Anguilar National Park & Ipswich, & south to Beenleigh. The map gives names of various districts & suburbs, & shows main traffic arteries across them. National parks & other protected nature areas are prominently highlighted. To see a list of other street plans & directories from UBD Gregory`s please click on the series link. ...

Never forget those memorable moments of your life, with My Travel journal. Fill in your own checklists, recommendations & highlights. With the My Travel journal you can add photos, tick off those must see destinations & prepare for future adventures. With it`s hard cover you can be sure that it will resist even the longest trips, so you can collect a lifetime of adventures. The My Travel Journal is a perfect gift for globe trotters. ...

After convicting a superior for corruption & shooting off a gangster`s crown jewels, the career of Hamburg`s most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital
- almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, & refusing to speak in anything other than riddles
- Chastity`s instinct for the big, exciting case kicks in. Using all her powers of persuasion, she soon gains her charge`s confidence, & finds herself on the trail to Leipzig, a new ally, & a whole heap of lethal synthetic drugs. When she discovers that a friend & former colleague is trying to bring down Hamburg`s Albanian mafia kingpin single-handedly, it looks like Chas Riley`s dull life on witness protection really has been short-lived... Fresh, fiendishly fast-paced & full of devious twists & all the hard-boiled poetry & acerbic wit of the best noir, Blue Night marks the stunning start of a brilliant new crime series, from one of Germany`s bestselling authors.

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