Trinidad Noir delivers all the crime readers can expect from Akashic`s Noir Series: murder, kidnapping, rape, drugs, prostitution, theft, extortion & more. Yet, in fictionalising crime in the real settings of Trinidad, acclaimed authors Lawrence Scott, Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Ramabai Espinet, Keith Jardim, Tiphanie Yanique, Willi Chen & others, have created a decidedly literary noir collection. In their captivating & occasionally humorous stories, the Trinidad that emerges is as intriguing & contradictory as the island & its people. ...

Waterproof navigation chart.

Includes:: plans of Guiria, Bahias Puerto Santos, Ensenada Uquire, Macuro,

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This is the story of the defeats & triumphs of three Irish families. It is a powerful & stirring look at love & hate, both personal & political. Told through the simple lives of its people, this is an epic history of Irel&. From the famine of the 1840s to the 1916 Easter Rising, Trinity chronicles the terrible & beautiful drama of more than half a century. Leon Uris` skill is in capturing a subject seemingly too big to handle & distilling the very essence of that struggle into passionate prose. Years after his death, he remains one of the most popular storytellers of the twentieth century
- this is one of his most celebrated novels.
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Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic Peninsula, on a topographic map at 1:250, 000 from the British Antarctic Survey. BAS ref. for this title is SP21-22/13.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of other detailed topographic & specialist maps from BAS please click on the series link. BAS maps of wider general interest are listed on our website in a separate series. ...

Northumberland: the winter of 1937. In a remote moorland cottage, Steven Coulter, a young history teacher, is filled with sadness & longing at the death of his wife. Through a charismatic colleague, Frank Embleton, & Frank`s sister, Diana, he is drawn into the beguiling world of a group of musicians, & falls gradually under their spell. But as war approaches a decision is made which calls all their lives quite shockingly into question. Moving between the beauty & isolation of the moors, a hill-town school & a graceful old country house, Trio delicately explores conscience & idealism, romantic love & most painful desire. Throughout it all, the power of music to disturb, uplift & affirm is unforgettably evoked. ...

Trip of the Tongue is an entertaining virtual road trip across the landscape of American language & culture, encompassing everything from Arabic as spoken in Detroit to Yiddish in Baltimore. Linguaphile Elizabeth Little traveled 25, 000 miles through 46 states in a mission to find the cultural & linguistic soul of the nation, in the process investigating the history, resilience & syntactic oddities of languages spoken in the United States today. The official language of the US may be English, but it ...

Plank on frame construction with highly detailed finish. Varnished & polished wood with leather seats. Perfect to display at the office or at home. The Jaguar XK120 ruled the road: Doris Day & Cary Grant were Oscar nominated. It was a time of peace, & optimism was unbridled. It was then that Rivas roared across the Lago di Como & skimmed the Mediterranean waves off St. Tropez. Thunderboats (also called Hydroplanes) racing with each other at record speed. Stateside, the luxurious Chris Crafts were de rigeur with Hollywood elite. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Black Forest ” Top 10 Tips” Map in Freytag & Berndt’s series of detailed road maps at 1:150, 000 covering Germany’s popular holiday areas, each with a booklet with street plans, an index & descriptions of 10 selected places of interest, all prominently highlighted on the maps. Relief is portrayed by hill-shading without distracting from other detail. Although these maps are using the same cartography as the publishers’ 1:200, 000 regional series, better scale & colouring make minor local roads & motorway junctions stand out more clearly. Road information

Includes:: intermediate driving distances, toll routes, scenic roads & tourist routes, steep gradients, caravan traffic restrictions, seasonal closures on mountain roads, etc. Railways, cable cars, ferries & airfields are also shown. Selected cycle routes & long distance hiking trails are included. Picturesque towns are highlighted & in each title 10 selected places of interest are prominently marked & briefly described in the index booklet attached to the map cover. The booklet also provides street plans main towns in the region. Symbols mark various landmarks, places of interest & facilities, e.g. selected hotels, campsites, historical & architectural sites, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 10` intervals.* Map legend & the descriptions include English.** In this title:* street plans of central Erfurt, Liepzig & Würzburg.

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Rana Jawad, a British-Lebanese journalist who has reported from Tripoli for the BBC for seven years, found herself the last British journalist reporting from inside Tripoli early in 2010. Defiant & terrified in turns, she went into hiding & bravely issued the series of anonymous Tripoli Witness blogs that have become famous among anyone following the course of the insurgency. The raw blog accounts published here are accompanied by a short introductory pieces as well as a series of opening essays of what it was like to live in Gaddafi`s Libya. Paul Kenyon, the acclaimed Panorama Presenter who was recently awarded for his BBC documentary on Libya, introduces Rana`s work & gives an insight into this remarkable young journalists`s brave reporting through harrowing times. ...

It has been called a ” Noble Possession”, abused as ”A Nest of Corsairs” & extolled as ” The Pearl of the Mediterranean”. This city of Tripoli, one of the oldest on both the Mediterranean & the fringes of the Sahara, & never deserted, has meant many different things to many different people over the past 2, 500 years. To its first outside visitors, the trading Phoenicians, it was a safe haven & a market. To its later Roman colonizers it was an outlet for the low grade pastoral produce of its Saharan hinterl&. Under Muslim Arab rule it became a wealthy transit market, trading with three continents, while under its Turkish & Karamanli rulers, it was notorious for its corsair galleys that preyed on the merchant shipping of the Central & Eastern Mediterranean. After the Napoleonic Wars the city took on a new role as a base for the trans-Saharan exploration & penetration of inner Africa, with British pioneers followed by Germans, French & Italians. In 1911 Italy invaded this last remaining Turkish possession in North Africa, soon transforming a neglected exiles` outpost into an imposing capital symbolizing Fascist imperial pretensions. Tripoli`s fall to the British Eighth Army in January 1943 was seen as a turning point in World War Two, while in 1951 its role as joint capital of the newly-independent Kingdom of Libya marked the start of Africa`s post- colonial era. Oil found in Libya in the 1950s & 1960s made Tripoli rich
- & a prize that fell in 1969 to the rising forces of Arab nationalism personified by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. During his 42 years of eccentric rule, Tripoli was transformed into a mega-city, one hundred times greater in extent & population that it had been a century earlier. But by 2015 continuing post-Gaddafi anarchy & depleting oil reserves made the city`s future seem as precarious & uncertain as ever it had been. Mixing personal observation & research with accounts from foreign travellers & residents, John Wright reveals the reality of this unique, remarkable & ever-vibrant city: a city with special social, cultural & linguistic ”flavours” that not even visitors from other parts of the Arab World can always understand or define.
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