Set sail on a wonderful adventure in this toddler-friendly board book from award-winning, bestselling picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers! There once was a boy & one day he found a penguin at his door... The boy decides the penguin must be lost & tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, & they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn`t what the penguin was looking for after all... ...

This is the international number 1 bestseller. It is the heart-warming, moving & joyful story of three lost people needing to be found. Millie Bird is a seven-year-old girl who always wears red wellington boots to match her red, curly hair. But one day, Millie`s mum leaves her alone beneath the Ginormous Women`s underwear rack in a department store, & doesn`t come back. Agatha Pantha is an eighty-two-year-old woman who hasn`t left her home since her husband died. Instead, she fills the silence by yelling at passers-by, watching loud static on TV, & maintaining a strict daily schedule. Until the day Agatha spies a little girl across the street. Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven years old & once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wife`s skin. He sits in a nursing home, knowing that somehow he must find a way for life to begin again. In a moment of clarity & joy, he escapes. Together, Millie, Agatha & Karl set out to find Millie`s mum. Along the way, they will discover that the young can be wise, that old age is not the same as death, & that breaking the rules once in a while might just be the key to a happy life. Lost & Found will be adored by fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared; & The Rosie Project. ...

As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play ` Dispatcher`, a game that involved sitting in his father`s parked car (or in the study) & sending imaginary couriers on routes across the city, mapped out from Holmden`s Register of Johannesburg. As the imaginary fleet made its way across the troubled city & its tightly bound geographies, so too did the young dispatcher begin to figure out his own place in the world. At the centre of Lost & Found in Johannesburg is the account of a young boy who is obsessed with maps & books, & other boys. Mark Gevisser`s account of growing up as the gay son of Jewish immigrants, in a society deeply affected
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- by apartheid & its legacy, provides a uniquely layered understanding of place & history. It explores a young man`s maturation into a fully engaged & self-aware citizen, first of his city, then of his country & the world beyond. This is a story of memory, identity & an intensely personal relationship with the City of Gold. It is also the story of a violent home invasion & its aftermath, & of a man`s determination to reclaim his home town.

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Far from Moscow & St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites & almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River & Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with the new ways of living. Returning again & again to the deep heartland of this rapidly evolving country from 1992 to the present, Susan Richards struck up some extraordinary friendships. With Anna, a questing journalist struggling to express her passionate spirituality within the rules of the new society. & Natasha, a restless spirit, transplanted from Siberia in a bid to escape the demands of her upper class family & her own demons. & Tatiana & Misha, whose business empire has blossomed from the ashes of the Soviet Union but who, despite all their luxury, seem uneasy in this new world. Through their stories & her own experiences Susan Richards demonstrates how in Russia the past & the present cannot be separated. Lost & Found in Russia is a magical & unforgettable portrait of a society in transition. ...

Far from Moscow & St Petersburg, there lies another Russia. Overlooked by the new urban elites & almost unknown to the West, in the great provincial hinterlands of the Volga River & Siberia, Russians struggle to reconcile their old traditions with a new & unfamiliar world. Returning again & again, for over a decade, to the deep heartland of this rapidly-evolving country, Susan Richards has encountered extraordinary people & forged lasting friendships. Through their unforgettable stories & her own experiences she reveals how in Russia the past & the present cannot be separated. Illuminating a forgotten people & sweeping away traditional assumptions, ” Lost & Found in Russia” is a compelling & essential portrait
- poignant, yet full of hope for a new future.
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Walking was once the only way to get around but now we just walk to the bus stop, station or car. Or we walk as a lifestyle choice
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The British Isles have witnessed hundreds of battles in 2000 years of history. Some are well known, due to their far-reaching consequences, sheer scales or the involvement of famous protagonists. Others, however, have never been properly investigated. In this book, Martin Hackett examines ten forgotten battles, covering the length & breadth of Britain & ten centuries of warfare. At Buttington in the Severn Valley, the author has identified the site of a long-lost Dark Age battlefield between Danish Vikings & their English & Welsh opponents in 893. He reveals the secrets of St Albans, which witnessed the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, & the site of Goudhurst in Kent, where in 1747 the last battle on English soil was fought, a band of villagers against a gang of ruthless smugglers. A concise account of each engagement is provided, along with an analysis of its strategic, archaeological & political significance, complimented by a modern map of the battlefield with suggested tours & information on exploring the site today. ...

Bristol has a rich historical heritage dating back to the city's beginnings in Anglo-Saxon times. For centuries, it was England's second city &, as a thriving port, its past is steeped in its involvement in trade, whether of cloth, wine, pottery, glass
- or slaves. As there is no commercial shipping now, much of Bristol's past is hidden within the modern city, just out of sight, but waiting to be discovered. Lost Bristol is an exploration of Bristol's hidden past, its ways of life, legends, relationship with the sea & its role in English history. The book

Includes:: some of the more famous aspects of the city's past, as well as stories & information unknown even to most locals. In an informed & entertaining style, Victoria Coules uncovers events & episodes such as the 1793 bridge toll riots, the jurisdiction of the Knights Templar over certain areas in Bristol & the creation of the Floating Harbour. Lost Bristol also reveals how a 13th century quay became a traffic roundabout, what happened to Bristol's own hot water spa & why Bristol cod merchants were also intrepid explorers. Many more surprising & remarkable stories about Bristol's past, accompanied by maps, engravings & photographs, make this book essential reading for all those curious about the city's hidden history.


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From vanished villages & bygone businesses to abandoned architecture, forgotten pastimes & projects put on hold, Lost Britain tells the intriguing story of Britain`s buildings, counties, transport, languages, roads & rivers that have been forgotten over the centuries. The book shines a light on the hidden corners of Britain`s history, exploring medieval ghost villages, former architectural masterpieces, the purported resting place of Anne Boleyn`s heart, England`s Atlantis, God`s Gift, a German war cemetery, the hamlet of Lost in Aberdeenshire, the old Welsh railway run on seven different forms of power & a missing fort in County Down, not to mention how Britain used to be connected to mainland Europe. Exploring the history of the lost parts of Britain, author David Long both mourns their loss & celebrates the achievements of the engineers & architects of past generations, revealing some extraordinary features of this nation`s history that should not be forgotten. ...

John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian & Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists & the second & third with Chinese scientists in 1995 & 1996. The book records the amazing adventures he has experienced on those expeditions & will record details of the 30-day walk on foot in the formidable Kum Tagh sand dunes in the spring of 1997. He is the first recorded foreigner to have crossed the Gashun Gobi from north to south. The expeditions were primarily concerned with tracking down the mysterious wild Bactrian camel `camelus bactrianus ferus` which lives in the heartland of the desert & is the ancestor of all domestic Bactrian stock. There are under a thousand left in the world & the wild Bactrian camel is more endangered than the giant Panda. This is John Hare`s magnificent account of a formidable feat of modern exploration. ...