The purchase of a yacht is one of the biggest investments the average owner will ever make. & yet for all the expense & risk involved, the legal side of buying a yacht can be as simple as buying a box of matches.RYA Buying a Secondhand Yacht is written by RYA legal experts & will help you through what is often called a buyers ...

Buying a boat can be a minefield, but a handbook like this will make it a lot easier for would-be boat owners to make sensible, informed choices. Whether buying a new or second-hand boat, would-be owners will gain expert advice on topics including:
- the type of boat best suited to their needs
- where to find it (brokers, etc)
- what to look out for
- how to assess it (especially important for secondhand boats)
- questions to ask
- setting a realistic budget
- finding a mooring
- insurance
- documentation required Lively, modern & attractive, & illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this guide is packed with checklists & insights from real owners who share their experiences. Armed with this book, would-be boat owners are far more likely to end up with the right boat for them!








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Buying Property Abroad is a comprehensive guide to negotiating the foreign property ladder. This book explains the whole buying process, covering contracts, searches, surveys & deeds. Mortgages, currency deals, taxes, fees & duties are assessed & calculated & the role of estate agents, lawyers, letting agents, surveyors, builders & architects is examined in depth. Enthusiastic but grounded in common sense, the book offers essential support at every stage. Key sources of further information are provided, with website addresses & suggestions for further reading. This must-have guide: examines best buys for investment, holiday & retirement; explains the buying process from start to finish; covers main destinations & emerging markets; &, exposes scams, rip-offs & schemes to avoid. The true cost of buying & owning a property abroad is revealed. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

The Sheep Foldable Shopping Bag, comes as a compact & colourful pouch in the shape of a fox & unfolds into a tote bag with delicate decorative print. Very lightweight, the little sheep can fit into any handbag & be ready to use as an alternative to a plastic bag. The Sheep Foldable Shopping Bag is ideal for when you pop out to get your lunch or a few items from the shops. ...

Even tiny babies will enjoy looking at the brilliantly coloured illustrations in this very first book. The peach-skin soft cloth is perfect for little hands to grasp & the surprise sound that comes from the crackly foil sewn inside the book will delight babies. ...

Even tiny babies will enjoy looking at the brilliantly coloured illustrations in this very first book. The peach-skin soft cloth is perfect for little hands to grasp & the surprise sound that comes from the crackly foil sewn inside the book will delight babies. ...

By Any Means is the tale of Charley Boorman’s 20, 000-mile adventure from his home town in County Wicklow, Ireland to Wollongong in Australia, through 25 countries, by any mode of transport to hand
- including a motorcycle in a monsoon! Charley’s incredible journey offers him the chance to meet people & learn firsthand what it’s like to live in many different parts of the world. En-route he drives a lorry through Iran, sets up his own bus service in Turkey, takes a slow boat down the Mekong, & a very fast one through Borneo to deliver vaccines for UNICEF.
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2017*LONDON 1885
- A woman`s body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten
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Elizabeth Smart`s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ` Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightening.. .A masterpiece`. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker
- & fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they communicated directly &, as a result of Barker`s impecunious circumstances, Elizabeth Smart flew both him & his wife from Japan, where he was teaching, to join her in the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary, intense & ultimately tragic love affairs of our time. They never married but Elizabeth bore George Barker four children & their relationship provided the impassioned inspiration for one of the most moving & immediate chronicles of a love affair ever written
- By Grand Central Station I Sat Down & Wept. Originally published in 1945, this remarkable book is now widely identified as a classic work of poetic prose which, more than six decades later, has retained all of its searing poignancy, beauty & power of impact.

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