A unique new book for anyone planning to invest in a gite ot bed & breakfast business in France. Contains vital information nto help readers avoid disasters that can turn a prospective profitable business into a nightmare. A practical, comprehensive study of how to make a living from your French home. Provides valuable insider tips to help readers avois costly mistakes when buying a property in France for a gite or B&B business. ...

Running marathons back-to-back, sleeping by the side of the road, giving presentations to remote schools that had never been visited by their own kinsfolk, this is the remarkable story of personal endurance that gives an engrossing insight into the people & wildlife of South America. It is the story of two everyday runners, Katharine & David, who decided to take on a continent & learn how to run again
- barefoot, pushing their bodies & minds to levels they had never considered possible in a bid to become the first in the world to run the length of South America, to give a voice to the wildlife & wildernesses they adore. Running laid them bare, stripped them of the shell people journey within, so all they had to rely on was their own bare feet. Yet this very vulnerability provided the key to unlocking communities who would fling open their doors, tuck them under their wings & whisper their secrets. Amazing animals accompanied them: gigantic vaulting stick-insects; cackling macaws who wheeled & pirouetted in the sky, desperately trying to gain a better view of them; & a giant anteater whom they stalked through a snake-infested swamp, so they could stand within an arm`s length as he devoured termites upon the end of his long sticky tongue. It was also an animal, if one of the most diminutive, that nearly succeeded in ending their dreams of conquering the continent
- an ant! But when their joints & muscles were screaming, when they couldn`t stand the sight of one another & when prickly heat, blisters & tropical ulcers infested their skin, it was the wildlife & wildernesses that pulled them through. Day after day, for months on end, running from freezer through desert & into the biggest rainforest on earth, they survived hurricane-force winds, near 100% humidity, swarms of biting insects & some of the most crime-ridden places on the planet. The expedition nearly cost them their marriage, health, sanity & lives. But somehow, they made it to the other end of the continent, 6, 504 miles & 15 months later, when they splashed into the warm & much-dreamed of Caribbean Sea.

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Jean Patrick dreams of running in the Olympics, & with gruelling training he soon beats a world qualifying time. But his chances of success are threatened by the ethnic tensions erupting all around him. When Hutu violence against Tutsis finally crescendos & his homeland Rwanda is wracked by unforgivable atrocities, Jean Patrick, a Tutsi, has no choice but to run for his life abandoning fatherl&, family, & the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. ...

Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi & his kind are not supposed to win. When the president's assassination plummets the country into sudden & bloody chaos
- Hutu against Tutsi, neighbour against neighbour
- Jean Patrick is left without protection & without any choice. Now he must run: from his home, from his family, from the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda & the tragedy of its recent past, Running the Rift is a truly stunning novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost, & of loves salvaged.

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In ” Running the Show”, the British Empire of old is re-examined, with Stephanie Williams looking at the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century, how they were chosen & controlled, & just how they managed to do it. From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia & South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, ordinary British men & women, with no training, were dispatched to strange places, among strange people & faced unimaginable conditions. Some started wars. Others fought disease, injustice & slavery. Many died or went mad. ” Running the Show”, drawing on vast unpublished sources, reveals the day-today lives, griefs & triumphs of governors at the height of the British Empire as they struggled to make sense of their charges &, frequently, themselves. ...

Luxury collector`s hardback gift edition. An epic & heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of ` War Horse` & ` Born to Run`. For Will & his mother, going to Indonesia isn`t just a holiday. It`s an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them
- things like the death of Will`s father. & to begin with, it seems to be just what they both needed. But then Oona, the elephant Will is riding on the beach, begins acting strangely, shying away from the sea. & that`s when the tsunami comes crashing in, & Oona begins to run. Except that when the tsunami is gone, Oona just keeps on running. With nothing on his back but a shirt & nothing to sustain him but a bottle of water, Will must learn to survive deep in the jungle. Luckily, though, he`s not completely alone! He`s got Oona.
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” Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year”
- This is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. After years of
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Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year. It is shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Best New Writer category at the British Sports Book Awards. After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world`s biggest long-distance races, Runner`s World contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover what it was that made them so fast
- & to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family, he moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, & started investigating. Was it running barefoot to school, the food, the altitude, or something else? At the end of his journey he put his research to the test by running his first marathon, across the Kenyan plains. This edition

Includes:: a new chapter covering the 2012 Olympics.


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Jonny Bealby was devastated when his fiancee Melanie died unexpectedly while they were travelling in Kashmir. Two years later, still heartbroken & utterly disillusioned, he took on the challenge of a lifetime. Setting out with only his motorbike for company, he began a daring & dangerous journey around the African continent in a desperate attempt to unearth some meaning in his life. Bittersweet, bold & beautifully told, Running with the Moon is a tale of true love & loss, of exploration, adventure & courage. ...

` Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.` Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. & for him the two
- running & philosophising
- are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life: from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches & up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, & through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortality, middle age & the meaning of life. This is a highly original & moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, & those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.

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