The Great Gatsby lives in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people, & yet no-one seems ...

Spineless Publishing offers you the unique display for The Great Gatsby on one sheet to hang on the wall. This American classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the darker side of the roaring twenties. It follows the journey of New York arrival Nick as he finds himself drawn into the high-living world of his mysterious neighbour Gatsby, for whom money & friends come as easily as the girls. But all is not as glamorous as it seems & before long things start to come unravelled with tragic consequences. The Great Gatsby is shown here with his beloved Rolls Royce
- at one the great symbol of his good living & the instrument of his downfall. The font, although inevitably small, up close, is perfectly legible. All Spineless Classics are printed on heavyweight paper in sharp, lightfast ink which will not fade. Frame you favourite classic & transform it into a beautiful work of art. Please note the frame is not included.
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The essential guidebook to walking the Great Glen Way, a 79-mile National Trail that runs along the Great Glen between Fort William & Inverness. The Great Glen is one of the most remarkable features in the Scottish landscape
- a ruler-straight valley along an ancient fault line through the Highlands. Ideal as an introduction to long-distance walking, the Great Glen Way can easily be walked within a week, & most walkers will aim to complete the route in five or six days. The guidebook provides the walker with practical information, maps & clear route descriptions for every stage of the trek & lists the facilities found along the way. A separate OS map booklet shows the trail, which can be walked in either direction. The Great Glen Way stretches alongside the scenic Caledonian Canal, which links Loch Lochy & Loch Oich with the famous Loch Ness. The route uses undulating forest tracks, lakeside paths, old drove roads & military roads, as well as contrasting stretches over heather moorlands or through city suburbs. Walkers can enjoy the scenery & wildlife, delve into the history of the Highland clans, visit crumbling castles, or keep an eye open to spot the elusive Loch Ness Monster!
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Each spread focuses on one destination, & the intricate artwork gives readers a visual flavour of the place, with masses to look at & discover the more you look. There are links from one place to the next
- historical, geographical, natural history or just simple proximity
- for example, there is an ancient Egyptian obelisk in NY`s central park, with two sister obelisks in Paris & London. Find the one in the Central Park using Google[trademark] Earth co-ordinates & it gives you the clue to where you will be going next. The pyramids at the Louvre in Paris will whisk you off to the temples of Ancient Egypt, then find a connection from the Colosseum of Ancient Rome to the hot plains of Tanzania that team with wildlife, from flocks of flamingos to herds of wildebeest to prides of lions. & so on... In each location you have to find a souvenir to take with you. You will also need to solve a puzzle with the help of Google[trademark] Earth to collect co-ordinates for your final secret location
- again on Google[trademark] Earth. For instance, the puzzle tells you to visit the Statue of Liberty on Google[trademark] Earth & to count the number of points on its crown. This number is one of the co-ordinates you need to find your final destination on Google[trademark] Earth at the end of the book.


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Each spread focuses on one destination, & the intricate artwork gives readers a visual flavour of the place, with masses to look at & discover the more you look. There are links from one place to the next
- historical, geographical, natural history or just simple proximity
- for example, there is an ancient Egyptian obelisk in NY`s central park, with two sister obelisks in Paris & London. Find the one in the Central Park using Google [trademark] Earth co-ordinates & it gives you the clue to where you will be going next. The pyramids at the Louvre in Paris will whisk you off to the temples of Ancient Egypt, then find a connection from the Colosseum of Ancient Rome to the hot plains of Tanzania that team with wildlife, from flocks of flamingos to herds of wildebeest to prides of lions. & so on... In each location you have to find a souvenir to take with you. You will also need to solve a puzzle with the help of Google [trademark] Earth to collect co-ordinates for your final secret location
- again on Google [trademark] Earth. For instance, the puzzle tells you to visit the Statue of Liberty on Google [trademark] Earth & to count the number of points on its crown. This number is one of the co-ordinates you need to find your final destination on Google [trademark] Earth at the end of the book.


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This is the quest for a lost wonder of the world, in the author`s words his `ridiculous obsession`, arose from the chance discovery of some dusty memoirs that told of a mighty hedge spanning the Indian subcontinent in the nineteenth century. The hedge was set in place to allow the collection of the Salt Tax by British customs officers, Inspired by the concept of this amazing living barrier, now forgotten, Roy Moxham set off to find out what has happened to it & whether any remnant existed today. His travels in India, & what he found there, form the basis for this illuminating book. Writer Jan Morris comments, ` At first I thought this remarkable book must be a hoax.. . It tells the story of one of the least-known wonders of Queen Victoria`s India
- a customs barrier 2, 300 miles long, most of it made from hedge. It was patrolled by 12, 000 men & would have stretched from London to Constantinople, yet few historians mention it & most of us have never heard of it. Could anything be more astonishing?`
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Fifty stories of adventure & exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories & claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the world all but accidentally. Published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, & with full access to their extensive records, the book

Includes:: unique images & insights from the RSGS archives, along with never-before seen material.

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The Great Railway Atlas of India, now in its third edition published in 2015, presenting the country’s railway network on maps at approx. 1:1, 000, 000 with numerous more detailed maps of main railway locations, including diagrams of metro networks. Designed & drawn by Samit Roychoudhury, the atlas provides a very detailed classification of the network according to the gauge & the number of lines, electrification (including in progress & planned), closed lines with stations & sidings, etc. Icons mark locations of different types of sheds, workshops, yards, etc. The index lists 12, 000 stations & other railway locations, indicating by colouring closed stations or sidings, etc. Inset maps provide more detailed coverage of 23 important areas, & metro maps are included for Delhi, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow & Mumbai. The atlas also

Includes:: an at-a-glance map of the whole country, a map indicating locations of museums, plus a glossary of changes in names of towns & railway stations.

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It`s time to depart! Every year, birds from all around the world leave their homes & gather together in the jungle. This is the first time Red Beak has joined the birds` great journey, & he has a long way to travel. Follow Red Beak as he flies to the other side of the world & use the magic view-finder inside the book to discover what`s really going on behind the scenes. Over forests & farmlands, cities & seascapes you`ll see some amazing sights: acrobatic ants, a cruise-ship crocodile, factories in the clouds
- even a monkey play the cello! Like Red Beak, you`ll be bursting to tell everyone what you`ve see on your great journey.
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A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the world`s most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader & No Kum Sok, once the state`s youngest jet fighter pilot. Shortly before the Korean War ended, No Kum Sok met Kim Il Sung, who congratulated him for his flying skill & his courage. A few months later, No Kum Sok stole a Soviet-made Mi G-15 & flew it to a US airfield in South Korea. Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 & ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War, The Great Leader & the Fighter Pilot is an ambitious & gripping book which digs deeply into the character of the Kim family dictatorship. At once an irresistible adventure story & an authoritative guide to the notorious state, it explains why North Korea remains so isolated, why it created & maintains a vast gulag of concentration camps, & why it is still so angry at the western world. ...