Because of the importance of Robert Frank`s The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United States; & because he made very different kinds of pictures when he returned to still photography in the 1970s, most of Frank`s American work of the 1950s is poorly known. This book, based on the important Frank collection at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, is the first to focus on that work. Its careful sequence of 131 plates integrates twenty-two photographs from The Americans with more than 100 unknown or unfamiliar images to chart the major themes & pictorial strategies of Frank`s work in the United States in the 1950s. Peter Galois` text presents a thorough reconsideration of Frank`s first photographic career & examines in detail how he used the full range of photography`s vital 35mm vocabulary to reclaim the mediums artistic tradition from the hegemony of the magazines. ...

A beautiful collection of timeless classics for a new generation, featuring three of the best-loved children's titles. Meet unforgettable characters in The Jungle Book & follow man-cub Mowgli's adventures with the Wolf Pack as he faces up to his life-long enemy, Shere Khan. Go on a swashbuckling journey in search of buried treasure with young Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island & see how Mr Toad leads his companions from one escapade to the next in The Wind in the Willows, until he finally realises the value of true friendship. ...

First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson`s essays, fables & short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy Casares
- a collection of their favourite works of non-fiction, short stories & fables. The themes
- integrity, intellectual & imaginative truth, literary meaning, the fantastic
- are common to all three authors, & these connections are explored in an introduction by Kevin Mac Neil. Including such classic tales as ` The Bottle Imp` & rare essays on crime, morality, dreams & romance, Robert Louis Stevenson: An Anthology is rich, eloquent & utterly readable.


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A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotl&. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of ” Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”. The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary & as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public &, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife & stepchildren. This powerful new study is published to mark the centenery of Stevenson`s death at the age of forty-four. ...

Almost every adult & child is familiar with his Treasure Isl&, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote isl&, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint`s treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola. In 1890 Stevenson settled in Upolu, an island in Samoa, after two years sailing round the South Pacific. He was given a Samoan name & became a fierce critic of the interference of Germany, Britain & the U.S.A. in Samoan affairs
- a stance that earned him Oscar Wilde`s sneers, & brought him into conflict with the Colonial Office, who regarded him as a menace & even threatened him with expulsion from the isl&. Joseph Farrell`s pioneering study of Stevenson`s twilight years stands apart from previous biographies by giving as much weight to the Samoa & the Samoans
- their culture, their manners, their history
- as to the life & work of the man himself. For it is only by examining the full complexity of Samoa & the political situation it faced as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, that Stevenson`s lasting & generous contribution to its cause can be appreciated.


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Jason Bourne is on the run. His old friend, General Boris Karpov, is dead. But Karpov, once head of the feared FSB, lives on in the cyber weapon he devised before his death, capable of penetrating the heart of America`s final defense: nuclear launch codes. Both the NSA & Meme LLC, a black off-site cyber opertion, believe Bourne has taken over the enterprise, & a kill team is sent to terminate him for committing treason against the US. Flushed from cover, hunted by assassins, wounded & nearly killed, Bourne is forced to join forces with his bitterest enemy, a Somali magus named Keyre, whose terrorist organization Bourne once decimated. Now Keyre is more powerful than ever & he might help Bourne, but to what end? From the Greek island of Skyros to Somalia & the underbelly of Moscow, Bourne must unravel the mystery of Boris Karpov`s last legacy, a weaponized code that may very well bring about the unthinkable: a violent end to America. ...

Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats & rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. In EYE & I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East & India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal the photographed subject & the photographer intersecting with each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard. Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 & lives in New York City. His work has been the subject of exhibitions in New York, London, Brazil, Montreal, among other places. He received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 & 2000, & Communication Arts awards in 2007 & 2008. In 2006, Polidoris series of photographs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His bestselling books Havana (2003), Zones of Exclusion Pripyat & Chernobyl (2003), After the Flood (2006), Parcours Museologique Revisite (2009) & Some Points in Between... Up Till Now (2010) are published by Steidl. ...

This guide features dynamic new multi-coloured distribution maps & calendar bars showing full & peak breeding seasons for birds of the north-eastern regions of southern Africa. in addition this guide gives you information on bird food, behavior, breeding strategies &, in some cases, their estimated population status in the Park. It contains 91 annotated plates illustrated by 7 of southern Africa`s finest bird artist; colloquial names in 9 other languages; detailed etymology section. Whether expert or beginner in the field of birding, this invaluable guide is sure to maximize your experience in Kruger. ...

Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:100, 000, the Vägkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 79 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:100, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 75 x 80km. The maps have contours at 10 metre intervals, plus relief shading & colouring for different types of landscape: open l&, forests, alvar, marshes, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves, areas prohibited to cross-country vehicles, & restricted entry military zones are marked. The maps indicate privately maintained local roads, cycle paths with wind shelters, footpaths, etc, & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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