Everybody loves a passport
- especially children. With the exact shape & size of a passport, this delightful travel activity book
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With four major theme parks & 22 hotels, Disney World can be daunting -- this indispensable travel planner simplifies the process. Each of the four major parks gets in-depth coverage, complete with full-color fold-out maps & a description of every ride & attraction. Exhaustive profiles of Disney-owned resort hotels feature detailed maps, color photos, & room layouts. The guide also covers all of the park`s 300+ dining options. ...

Map No. 1087, Passwang, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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A cross-border circuit in the Pyrenees linking the Couserans section of the GR10 in France with a route in the upper part of the Val d’ Aran in Spain, presented by Editorial Alpina on a contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:25, 000, accompanied by a booklet with stage-by-stage descriptions & contact details for refuges. The map has contours at 10m intervals, enhanced by relief shading & altitude colouring. The course of the Pass’ Aran circuit, including climbing detours to local peaks, is prominently highlighted. The map also shows other local hiking trails & indicates locations refuges, huts & gîtes, both along the main trail & in other parts of the area. The map has a 1km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. Accompanying booklet, in French, Spanish & Catalan only, provides brief descriptions of the five stages of the route, with contact addresses of the accommodation options.

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Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful & hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac Mc Carthy & Tim Winton. ` If you read only one book this year, make sure it`s this` Sunday Times `I loved Past the Shallows` Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Everyone loves Harry. Except his father. Joe, Miles & Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers` lives are shaped by their father`s moods
- like the ocean he fishes, he is wild & unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret. Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can`t be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs & cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, & a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother`s love are not enough.
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There are an infinite number of different pasta dishes, & they are all delicious! The simple & clear recipes go through the full range of pasta shapes that are available & describe the sauces that best suit each shape. Some are traditional Italian dishes, honed through centuries of honest home cooking, while others are new & original inventions, which play on the past & will surprise & delight the palate. ...

Discover how to turn pulses, grains & sea vegetables into pasta dough, spiralized noodles, soups, pasta salads, pasta bowls, & baked pastas. From nutrient-filled artisan pastas to seaweed noodles, Pasta Reinvented has over 80 protein & fibre-packed recipes that offer exciting flavour combinations as well as being a unique alternative to traditional pasta recipes. Recipes are fully flexible with variations for making gluten-free & vegetarian options, & are complete with delicious pasta sauce suggestions so you can bring the best out of every dish. Pasta Reinvented is the perfect step-by-step guide to learning healthy pasta recipes that reinvent your favourite dish. ...

They could be off-beat water towers, singular obelisks or jackdawed hilltop follies. These are the isolated curios of the English countryside; the landmarks that tick-off our rural progressions, oddities out of the corner of the eye that always raise a query, a need for an answer. Are those really army badges scoured from that downland chalk? Why do those stout brick castles have no doors or windows? Was that a towering gibbet, or a sinister trick of the light? Pastoral Peculiars puts us into metaphorical wellington boots, taking us out into the fields & scurrying along the hedgerows to dig out the curious & to tell us the stories that placed them there. The fading reminders of past industriousness alone in a sheep pasture; dressed stone for an abbey rising up out of fenland peat & the discarded & forgotten icons of rural life still wanting to tell their tales. In his inimitable style, Peter Ashley gives us an alternative view of the vaguely familiar, an idiosyncratic account in words & beautifully atmospheric photographs of the blips in the measured pulse of the English countryside. ...

` Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice
- graceful, dark, authentic & funny
- telling just the kind of stories we

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New in paperback, this book from master chef Michel Roux dispels the myth that pastry making is complicated & beyond the reach of most cooks. Designed in an easy-to-follow format, this chunky compilation presents all of the classic pastries in the simplest possible way, along with an inspiring collection of superb recipes. Divided into 10 chapters, focusing on a particular type of dough, each one opens with a detailed step-by step technique spread with tips on perfect results. There are chapters on shortcrust, puff, brioche, croissant, choux & filo amongst others, & each chapter has both savoury & sweet recipes using the basic dough with plenty of tips for perfect results. There are 100 recipes, beautifully photographed by Martin Brigdale, ranging from classics, such as Quiche Lorraine, Classic Pizza, Fillet of Beef in a Brioche Crust, Apple Tart, Pecan Pie, to contemporary approaches to canapes, seafood pastries & filo croustades. Classic recipes are given a modern twist while orginal recipes boast new combinations of flavours or a lighter, simpler style of cooking. Those who choose to buy their pastry rather than make it can still enjoy the recipes. ...