” Crude World” offers a passionate look at some of the most awful places in the world: the violent, repressive & polluted countries that are also where oil is extracted. Peter Maass follows the journey of oil & shows how the substance sullies so much of what it touches, poisoning land & rivers, promoting political bloodshed & creating corruption on a staggering scale. We tend to gauge the price of oil by its cost at the petrol station or its role in global warming, but Maass vividly shows an altogether different price paid by people who live in countries that are rich in petroleum but not wealth or freedom. He shows how the profits of oil benefit mainly the companies & governments that receive royalty cheques & will do more or less anything to sustain the flow of money. From Nigerian fishermen to Moscow oligarchs, from American generals in Iraq to environmentalists in Ecuador, from British executives to Saudi jihadists, Peter Maass connects the dots & shows how our relationship to oil is so deadly. Crude World is a great piece of reportage that reveals the price others pay for the lives we lead. ...

Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It`s the summer of 2017 & the whole world is falling apart. From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it`s not only Kathy who`s changing. Political, social & natural landscapes are all in peril. Fascism is on the rise, truth is dead, the planet is hotting up. Is it really worth learning to love when the end of the world is nigh? & how do you make art, let alone a life, when one rogue tweet could end it all. Olivia Laing radically rewires the novel in a brilliant, funny & emphatically raw account of love in the apocalypse. A Goodbye to Berlin for the 21st century, Crudo charts in real time what it was like to live & love in the horrifying summer of 2017, from the perspective of a commitment-phobic peripatetic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker... Author Biography: OLIVIA LAING is a widely acclaimed writer & critic. She writes for the Guardian, New Statesman & Frieze among many other publications. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize & the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award & the Gordon Burn Prize. The Lonely City was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize & the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, & translated into 15 languages. In 2018 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize. She lives in London. ...

The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep
- the more so in the dark & in winter. Even for the fit the journey is
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The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep
- the more so in the dark & in winter. Even for the fit the journey is
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Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls go unanswered because their recipients are all dead. Earlier that night, four Finnish friends meet for dinner. It`s been ten years since the host, Robert, has seen his once-best friend, Mikko. Mikko has arrived in London with an agenda & thinks he`s about to get away with murder, but he has no idea what`s on the menu for the night. ...

Cruise Guide to Europe & the Mediterranean in the Eyewitness travel guide book series from Dorling Kindersley; lavishly illustrated & particularly concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the chosen destination & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...

Anchors away! Capture the essence of cruising through the beautiful Mediterranean with DK`s multi-country guide to Europe`s most spectacular cruising destinations. From Oslo to Athens, the guide covers 70 ports of call. Lush photos & illustrations, unique 3-D models, & bird`s-eye-view maps of all the major sites ensure you don`t miss a thing. Clue up on the basics, from ship etiquette to the best bars & restaurants ashore. You can discover where the locals go, enjoy relaxing entertainment, world-class sites, & retail therapy. As with all DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, this book shows you what others only tell you, offering all you need for an unforgettable cruise. Countries discussed include: Croatia, Denmark, Estonia & Latvia, Finl&, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece & Cyprus, Irel&, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, North Africa, Norway, Pol&, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Syria, & Turkey. ...

Jack London writes about his own voyage across the Pacific in the Snark. Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco to Polynesia & Melanesia with his wife & two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak & a refusal to face up to wind when hove to. ...

Who gets the call if it all goes wrong at sea? Meet Dr Ben Mac Farlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he`s heading around the world as a ship`s doctor
- & with 3, 000 passengers & crew to look after he`s in for the most exciting trip of his life. On one dramatic voyage he deals with broken bones & broken hearts, & picks up the pieces after fights in the crew bar & freak accidents on shore leave. So join Ben & his colleagues & find out why ship`s doctors think bar stools should carry health warnings, why the casino can be safer than the sick bay in a storm & why no amount of sharks, pirates or tidal waves will ever be as dangerous as the midnight buffet.
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The Cruising Almanac is an annual publication. Compiled by The Cruising Association & Imray, it covers Northwest Europe from the Shetlands & southern Norway to Gibraltar & West Ireland to the Baltic. In this edition the fully revised & corrected text,

Includes:: a major reorganisation of the section Approaches to the Baltic Sea & additional plans. The Cruising Almanac comes with 2014 tide tables with data on 47 standard ports. These are in their own section at the end of the book. (on The Cruising Almanac) ”I commend it to cruisers & wish you all the joy of the seas I have had the good fortune to experience” Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
- CA Patron Visit The Cruising Association`s website for two-monthly updates at www.cruising.org.uk/almanac/corrections


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