With 16 well-researched chapters & 26 useful maps, this new thoroughly updated second edition of Bradt`s The Gambia remains the most comprehensive guide available in any language to what is the smallest country on mainland Africa. Significant development has taken place in recent years & this new edition offers all the latest updates, including new restaurants & hotels, detailed coverage of the many new eco lodges & camps that have sprung up, information on festivals, music workshops & opportunities to experience the unique local culture, & informed advice about birdwatching possibilities in a country very popular with first-time birders to Africa. As well as encompassing the popular coastal resorts, the guide also provides all the detailed information required to explore the relatively undeveloped interior, making it ideal for both visitors on organised packaged holidays & independent travellers alike. Bradt`s The Gambia reveals all the background & practical information needed to explore arguably Africa`s most welcoming & safest country with its plethora of beach resorts
- catering to all tastes & budgets
- that line the 80km stretch of tropical coastline running from the capital Banjul to the remote southern border. Small in size but rich in African character, The Gambia offers perhaps the closest English-speaking `winter sun` destination from Europe & is also an emerging destination for adventure activities such as kayaking, mountain bike tours, quad biking & parachuting. Justifiably popular with birdwatchers, the lush mangrove- & jungle-fringed river is also home to crocodiles, hippos, chimpanzees & a variety of monkeys. Historic attractions include the mysterious megalithic stone circles at Wassu & Ker Batch, & the fortified James Island & former slave-trading village of Juffureh (to where Alex Haley traced his ancestry in the book & TV programme Roots)
- all of which form part of the country`s two UNESCO World Heritage Sites & offer rich pickings to moderately adventurous travellers. All in all, Bradt`s The Gambia is the perfect companion for discovering this safe, welcoming & decidedly tourist-friendly English-speaking country which makes for an ideal short-stay introduction to the unique atmosphere of Africa.


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The Gambia in the Travel Guide series from Bradt; encompassing a comprehensive range of titles to destinations worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa, Central & South America. Bradt are one of the country’s leading independent publishers & have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the guides cover but also in encouraging tourists to limit the impact they have on the local environment. Bradt guides have a reputation for appealing to more independent travelers & often cover destinations that are not available from other publishers. Each guide opens with two comprehensive chapters on Background & Practical Information, covering details of the country’s geography, culture, natural history, government & politics, economy, people, language, religion, education & culture. Important practical advice

Includes:: when to visit, highlights, suggested itineraries, tour operators, red tape, embassies & consulates, getting there & away, health, safety, what to take, money, budgeting, getting around, accommodation, eating & drinking, public holidays, shopping, arts & entertainment, media & communications, business, travel culture & cultural etiquette. Individual sections are organized geographically by region & typically open with information on practicalities & orientation, before focusing on what to see & where to go. Information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat & how to find your way around is provided, with a range of budgets catered for. Simple black & white maps locate key visitor sites & places of accommodation. Bradt Travel Guides include appendices that provide an in-depth introduction to the language of each country, a glossary of terms & a listing of books & internet resources providing further information on the destination.

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The Gambler & Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky`s collection of one novella & six short stories reflecting his own life
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On visiting his local butcher, Norman Tebbit, food lover & family cook wondered why people would rather buy tasteless, factory-farmed chicken when they could eat good-quality game, often for less money. `I think mostly`, replied the butcher, ` it`s because they don`t know how to cook them
- & they think it would be very difficult`. First published in 2009 & unavailable for many years, this is a revised, updated & redesigned edition, now containing new recipes, of this immensely popular cookbook. Norman Tebbit showcases his favourite game recipes including pheasant, partridge, duck, grouse, wood pigeon, woodcock, deer, rabbit & many more. Whether the recipe is a relatively simple casserole, or a more challenging dish, the easy-to-follow- style guarantees consistent results. The book also

Includes:: a concise guide to game, instructions on preparation, advice on kitchen equipment, handy conversion charts & individual hints & tips on the various game included. Written with humour, The Game Cook is a practical handbook of mouth-watering recipes for eco-cooks, traditional food-lovers & those who are looking for some money-saving ways to provide tasty, wholesome meat dishes to the family.


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In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private & political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this sparkling book David Goldblatt argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social & political changes of the post-Thatcherite era in a more illuminating manner than football, & no cultural practice sheds more light on the aspirations & attitudes of our long boom & subsequent bust. ...

The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal & cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched & followed on every continent & in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a ”display of manly virtue”, an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper & how has it been so utterly transformed? In The Games, David Goldblatt
- winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
- takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers & brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque & transformation into a global media spectacular care of Hollywood & the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport & the olympics been a battlefield in the global Cold War, a defining moment for of epoch social & economic change in host cities & countries, & a theatre of resistance for women & athletes colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of olympic completion
- this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance & the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit & the one we actually live in.


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India is not simply a place; it is an experience. & the Ganges is not just a river: it is an aspect of the Divine. This is Raghubir Singh`s personal pilgrimage along the Ganges: from the Himalayas, where the river rises among snows, through the villages of the Gangetic Plain, past Banaras & through Bihar, to the Bay of Bengal, between India & Bangladesh. On the way he captures the essence of the river`s many different stages & moods, its strange & stunning beauty, its turbulence & ferocity during the monsoon, & the intimate daily lives of the people who live along it. He shows the river`s powerful religious significance, attested by the millions of Hindus who take part in the ageless pilgrimages & festivals held on its banks. Singh`s camera is as fine-tuned as his sensibility. To read his introductions to each area or aspect of the Ganges & then to look at these fascinating & infinitely various photographs is to see that what he notices with his mind he can catch to an amazing degree in a visual image. In these pictures there is more than the conventionally beautiful; in them we are brought face to face with Loknadi, the river of the world. ...

India's holiest river, the Ganges, winds some 1, 550 miles through the country, from its headwaters in the Himalayan glaciers past the villages & cities of the Gangetic Plain to the Delta's thousand fingers in the Bay of Bengal. Here, Aldo Pavan & his camera trace the route of this sacred river, capturing its beauty & its many different phases & moods. ...

gannet noun 1. a large seabird with mainly white plumage, which catches fish by plunging into the water.2. British informal, a greedy person. The Gannet`s Gastronomic Miscellany goes beyond the usual food fixations. Presented in a fresh, visually inventive style, it will appeal to anyone with a passing interest in food
- which, in this gastronomy-obsessed age, is pretty much all of us. In this compendious hotpot of a book you`ll find a guide to creating a hit food profile on Instagram, a cross-section of a tiffin box, an explainer on craft beer, the origin story of chicken Marengo, a list of millennia-old products that are still edible today (should you be brave enough to try Irish bog butter or Ancient Egyptian honey) & many more delightful nuggets of information.
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For over 800 years Newgate was the grimy axle around which British society slowly twisted. This is where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood & Captain Kidd met their fates, where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson & Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills, & where flamboyant highwaymen like Claude Duval & James Maclaine made legions of women swoon. While London`s theatres came & went, the gaol endured as Londons unofficial stage. From the Peasants Revolt to the Great Fire, it was at Newgate that England`s greatest dramas unfolded. By piecing together the lives of forgotten figures as well as re-examining the prison`s links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to Charles Dickens, this thrilling history goes in search of a ghostly place, erased by time, which has inspired more poems & plays, paintings & novels, than any other structure in British history. ...