For more than half the world`s people, the weather can be a matter of survival. Good monsoons mean prosperity & life, & poor ones are attended by famine & death. The monsoon is immune to control by government & technology alike. Photojournalist Steve Mc Curry had just completed a working tour of India when he was commissioned by the ” National Geographic” to cover the monsoon season. For a further six months he followed the path of the monsoon from the tropics to the eastern hemisphere, through Southeast Asia to Northern Australia. The resulting photographs are presented in this volume, with Mc Curry`s personal account of the assignment. ...

A compelling story of love, adventure, & the secrets that follow us, wherever we go...I adored this wonderful story... Astonishingly good` Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter`s Wife & Before the Rains Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war & nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood throws herself into helping her godmother Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India, a plan fraught with danger. Then Kit meets Anto, a trainee doctor from India nearing the end of his English education, & falls utterly in love. Marriage should be the easiest thing in the world, but when Anto informs his family that he is shortly to return home with an English bride, his parents are appalled. Despite being Anglo-Indian herself, Kit`s own mother is equally horrified. She has spent most of her life trying to erase a painful past & losing her daughter to an Indian man is her worst fear realized. As they journey to a new life in India, Kit begins to understand the seriousness of what she has undertaken & just how much she has to learn about the nature of home & the depth of her love. ...

The GONE series may be over, but it`s not the end of the story... MICHAEL GRANT`S ACTION-PACKED & MUCH ANTICIPATED NEW BOOK, SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BESTSELLING GONE SERIES. When the dome came down, they thought it was the end of the troubles. Truth is, it was just the beginning. Shade Darby witnessed events that day, with devastating consequences, & vowed never to feel that powerless again. Now, four years later, she gets her hands on a part of the meteor that began it all
- & that`s when she changes. Trouble is, Shade`s not the only one mutating, & the authorities cannot allow these superpowers to go unchecked... First of an explosive three-book young adult series. Once again Michael Grant creates a compelling young cast of new characters for readers to love, hate & debate, as well as a host of unimaginable creatures. This happily stands alone from the GONE series, while also featuring some fan-pleasing appearances from previous FAYZ inhabitants. Michael Grant lives in San Francisco with his wife, Katherine Applegate, & has written over 150 books
- with Katherine, as himself, under pseudonyms & as a ghostwriter. He is best know for the international multi-million-selling young adult six-book GONE series: GONE, HUNGER, LIES, PLAGUE, FEAR & LIGHT.

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A pack of fifty cards containing simple spooky doodle activities to keep little children busy on dark & stormy nights. The cards are wipe clean & the pack

Includes:: a special pen with which to doodle on the cards, making the pack entirely self contained, easily portable & a great gift. The cards are robust & durable, ensuring repeated use.

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Take a wicked walk on the wild side of imagination! Filled with prompts & illustrations to help inspire their inner Dr. Frankenstein, Monster Doodles for Kids lures boys & girls into this pocket-sized laboratory where they can create fiendish, snaggle-toothed monsters & eye-popping villains to their heart’s desire. Chris Sabatino is a monster lover who doodles all day long. Chris’s crazy creatures have been featured in books, magazines, comics, & greeting cards. ...

Monster Hands is a set of 8 temporary tattoos that will amuse, entertain, & inspire as they turn your hand into a talking monster. Simple yet hugely entertaining, these are for the whole family. All you need is your hand & some water. Each design measures Approx. 8x 7cm. Ideal to mix & match with the Finger Temporary Tattoos to bring to life the wildest stories ...

Slaying...and playing. All part of a day`s work for Max Helsing. Descended from a long line of monster hunters, Max Helsing does a pretty good job of being an eighth grader by day & keeping his town safe from demons, ghouls & the occasional mummy by night. That is, until he turns thriteen & discovers he`s been cursed by an ancient vampire who wants him dead
- at any cost. To save the world
- & his life
- Max must rely on his wise-cracking best friend, cantankerous monster, computer genius neighbour, & br&-new puppy. He`ll need all their help & more to break the Thirteenth Curse!


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There's more to lakes than meets the eye, as Monster Lakes reveals... In tried & tested Horrible Geography fashion the reader is taken through the physical geography of the different ways lake form (whether it's from volcanos, plate movement, glaciers or the classic 'oxbow' lakes) & where they occur, to chapters on unique lake wildlife, like flamingoes who are specially adapted to feed on algae. Turning to the human side of things, the book takes a look at lake explorers & their adventures, like Speke, whotumbled across Lake Victoria while looking for the Nile & modern adventurers
- many of whom are after lake monsters like Nessie using high-tech sonar equipment. Plus of course there's info about why lakes are in danger
- either of being drained dry for drinking water, or polluted by sewage & industrial waste, & what we can do to save them.

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For millennia, nature's biggest & fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge & fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land & at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ecosystems have been linked & humans have co-existed with flesh-eating beasts as members of the same food chain. Now, of course, as humans spread & despoil the planet, these fearsome predators may only survive on the other side of glass barriers & chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the nature of our own existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above
- so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. David Quammen's enthralling new book covers the four corners of the globe as he explores the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, saltwater crocodiles in Northern Australia, brown bears in the mountains of Romania, & Siberian tigers. Tracking these great & terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the traditional relationship between the great predators & the people who live among them, & weaves into his story the fears & myths that have haunted humankind for 3000 years.
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The hard evidence amounted to a grainy black & white photograph published in the Illustrated London News in 1918. Sat on a packing-case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant monkey, known variously as ' Loy's ape', ' King Monkey' & the ' Mono Rey'. It was supposed to inhabit the dense jungles of northern Bolivia. around the Madidi river, & the last westerner to attempt a sighting, the redoubtable Englishman Colonel Percy Fawcett, had disappeared without trace back in the 1920s. For the young travel writer Simon Chapman, however, the jungle is the only place to be, & the denser & more remote the better. Which is why, accompanied by an Englishman whose hobby is fighting mock mediaeval battles & an Australian who used the pages of his South American Handbook for cigarette papers in order to sample remote countries 'by exhalation', he took an all
- too-collapsible canoe amid Bolivia's swamps & rainforest to try & see for himself the mythical monster of the Madidi. In the classic English tradition that sets about turning a mad idea into an utter absurdity, it was an adventure from start to finish. Charlie, the Australian, proved much more successful at catching improbably large fish than at simply steering the canoe in a straight line. Their guides were soon adept at requiring another ration of the team's precious tinned chocolate pudding before any meaningful progress; & a daily procession of bemused tapirs, anteaters & jungle-dwelling wild turkeys only reminded them how very far they were from civilisation. Most worryingly of all, each rare encounter with a human being brought news that maybe the Mono Rey was a kind of bear, not a monkey
- or even that there was no monster after all... Compelling, comic & touching, with a superb awareness of the natural world, The Monster of the Madidi introduces a new travel writing talent that every fan of Redmond O' Hanlon & Eric Newby will relish.

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