The long awaited ultimate performance cookbook, a modern classic, a must-have for all cycling aficionados serious about nutritional intake. Translated from the original in Danish, Hannah Grant`s unmissable cookbook takes you through a 3 week, with 350-pages of easy-to-prepare recipes containing allergy friendly, natural, un-processed foods, The Grand Tour Cookbook is the ultimate companion in the kitchen for athletes. Based on actual food prepared for professional cycling`s grueling 3-week Grand Tours including the Giro d` Italia, Tour de France & the Vuelta, this book is a guide on how to cook, what to eat & how to maximize athletic performance throughout the year. Hannah Grant has a background in modern sports nutrition & The Grand Tour Cookbook focuses on the challenges presented by the caloric requirements of an endurance athlete: solutions are presented that comprise a beneficial carbohydrate intake, a bounty of ideas to keep vegetables, proteins & good fats captivating & mouth-watering. Maximise your performance by changing the way you eat
- lose weight, get more energy, conquer those goals & become a successful rider. Acknowledged by the world`s best restaurant executive head chef Rene Redzepi (NOMA, Copenhagen), the book also features insight & experience from Exercise Physiologist-Nutrition Scientist Stacy T Sims, MSc, Ph D, World Tour riders: Alberto Contador, Peter Sagan, Michael Rogers, Nicholas Roche, Ivan Basso, Roman Kreuziger, Matti Brechel, Michael Valgren, Michael Morkov, Christoffer Juul, Chris Anker, Sports Director Nicki Sorensen & Body Therapist Kristoffer Glavind Kjaer. Read opinions on food & nutrition for body & mind & how they optimise performance through eating intelligently.
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The world is a big place full of interesting things. & The Grand Tour has seen some of them. That`s why few people are better placed to lead you around this vast planet of ours than Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May. As long as you don`t mind getting hot & lost. Welcome, everyone, to The Grand Tour Guide to The World. In this indispensable guide, you will find an abundance of information, most of which is probably wrong & possibly dangerous. As well as occasionally accurate guides to the places visited on the show, you`ll find exclusive interviews with the presenters & discover their favourite locations for car-based cocking about. As well as being a factually dubious encyclopaedia, The Grand Tour Guide to the World is also a travel companion for those of you who have been inspired by the Grand Tour circus. You`ll find tips on how to sing like a native in the Bahamas, how to speak Welsh (wrongly), & how to navigate the magic roundabout in Swindon. On top of all this, we reveal the world`s fastest cop cars & the greatest car makers. & there`s a picture of James May in an anorak. ...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie`s extensive & evocative letters & photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Canada & America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January & did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places & people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zeal&, Hawaii & Canada. The extensive & previously unpublished letters are accompanied by hundreds of photos taken on her portable camera as well as some of the original letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings & memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip. Edited & introduced by Agatha Christie`s grandson, Mathew Prichard, this unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie, demonstrating how her appetite for exotic plots & locations for her books began with this eye-opening trip, which took place just after only her second novel had been published (the first leg of the tour to South Africa is very clearly the inspiration for the book she wrote immediately afterwards, The Man in the Brown Suit). The letters are full of tales of seasickness & sunburn, motor trips & surf boarding, & encounters with welcoming locals & overbearing Colonials. The Grand Tour is a book steeped in history, sure to fascinate anyone interested in the lost world of the 1920s. Coming from the pen of Britain`s biggest literary export & the world`s most widely translated author, it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie & is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans. ...

The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, & most famous highway in southern Asia. This book uses oral testimonies, photographs & texts to explore its history, & shows why it was so crucial to the process of migration to Britain & how the close links between Britain & places along it continue to this day. For millennia the Grand Trunk Road has been used by invaders to conquer the subcontinent. After the British arrived in 17th century they used it as the main artery of their conquest & rule of northern areas of British India. Known locally as the `GT Road` it was also used by its residents to begin journeys that ended all over the world, & since the days of the British Raj large numbers of them have settled in Britain. Between Delhi & the Khyber Pass, the GT Road travels through the homelands of over 90% of British Pakistanis & the vast majority of British Sikhs & Hindus from the Indian Punjab. Using stories gathered by Irna Qureshi & photographs taken by Tim Smith this book tells
- for the first time here
- the story of the profound impact of the British on the GT Road & its people, & how they in turn have irrevocably altered the fabric of modern day Britain.

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Working its way from Salford Junction outside Birmingham to Milton Keynes, this illustrated guide covers the northern part of the Grand Union Canal, accompanying the guide to the southern hallf of the canal. Revealing much that will appeal to holiday-makers along this stretch of water, the guide also provides historical snippets & useful up to date information for the casual sightseer or interested loca. Covering an area a mile or two either side of the canal, it is an invaluable resource for the canal boater, day tripper, angler, walker & interested local. Grand Union Canal North is the third in a series of Towpath guides. ...

Presenting a diverse & dazzling collection from all over the continent
- from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya
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The Granta Book of India brings together, for the first time, evocative, personal & informative pieces from previous editions of Granta, all on the experiences of Indian life, culture & politics. Including extracts from the highly successful Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee. Suketu Mehta on Mumbai Chitra Banerji: ` What Bengali widows cannot eat` Mark Tully on his childhood in Calcutta Ian Jack: ` Unsteady People`
- on unexpected parallels between Bihar & Britain Urvashi Butalia on tracing her long-lost uncle a poem by Salman Rushdie about the fatwa Ramachandra Guha: What we think of America Nirad Chaudhuri writing on his 100th birthday Rory Stewart among the dervishes of Pakistan Pankaj Mishra on the making of jihadis in Pakistan PLUS: fiction by R K Narayan, Amit Chaudhuri & Nell Freudenberger
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Shocking & controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck`s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma & Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised l&. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires & broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale & moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance & dignity of the human spirit. ...

`I`ve done my damndest to rip a reader`s nerves to rags, I don`t want him satisfied.` Shocking & controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck`s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires & powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human & majestic in its scale & moral vision. ...

` To the red country & part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, & they did not cut the scarred earth.` Drought & economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work & a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival.. . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: `I`ve done my damndest to rip a reader`s nerves to rags, I don`t want him satisfied.` ...