A small, early French map of this chain of islands from Grenada to St Lucia. Islands are named & hills are represented pictorially. Latitude & longitude scales are drawn along the west & north edges. Reproduced on heavyweight, parchment effect paper, with a generous border area. Paper

Size: 21.2 x 28.7 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches) Map

Size: 15.7 x 21.7 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches)



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While most of us just dream of packing up & heading off into the sunset, experienced travellers John & Jane Richardson pulled on their rucksacks & lived the dream during a life-changing eight months exploring America, Australia & Malaysia. This is not a hurried dash from country to country, John & Jane are ` Grey Nomads`, mature travellers wanting to shop, cook & understand the people & communities they interact with during their journeys. Keen to use as many forms of transport as possible, they undertook two great train adventures; a memorable twenty three hours on the Californian Zephyr across America & the fascinating jungle railway through the centre of Malaysia to the Islamic state of Kelantan on the border with Thail&. From encounters with bears & wolves in Yellowstone Park, to Queensland`s worst ever floods
- they take the time to understand the people they met & the places they`ve visited. Full of stories, sometimes amusing, sometimes serious, The Grey Nomads is an enchanting travelogue of life on the road for two mature travellers.
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Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? & what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John & Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves & for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their marriage, their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far into their past & threaten their future. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit & thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely
- perhaps courageously
- idiosyncratic ways. But as the four family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, & they all find themselves growing more alert to the sadness & burdens of others
- to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together. Moving, psychologically acute & gorgeously written, The Grief of Others asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, & how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness & hope.


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From the creators of Minions & Despicable Me, & featuring the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch, The Grinch is Christmas 2018`s guaranteed hit family movie. This bumper sticker activity book is stuffed with Grinchy things to make & do, as well as tonnes of official images from the new animated movie.
Includes:: puzzlesgamesword searches Christmas decorations & much, much more! The perfect Christmas gift for fans of Dr. Seuss.
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From the creators of Minions & Despicable Me, & featuring the voice of Benedict Cumberbatch, The Grinch is Christmas 2018`s guaranteed hit family movie. Fast paced, easy to read novelisation of the new movie based on Dr. Seuss`s 1957 classic, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Full of hilarious characters
- some familiar & some new
- plus high quality writing & a laugh-out-loud funny plot, this is the perfect book for fans of the Grinch to read & keep.

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`...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...` Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann & his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments, mountains & rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark, South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad, funny & shocking, ” The Gringo Trail” is an On the Road for the Lonely Planet generation
- a darkly comic road-trip & a revealing journey through South America`s turbulent history. Drama & discovery. Culture & cocaine. Fact is stranger than fiction...
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`...there I was in the middle of Bogota, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...` Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann & his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments, mountains & rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark, South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad, funny & shocking, The Gringo Trail is an On the Road for the Lonely Planet generation
- a darkly comic road-trip & a revealing journey through South America`s turbulent history. Drama & discovery. Culture & cocaine. Fact is stranger than fiction.
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The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing & most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a lively & compelling portrait of the other side of Las Vegas: the people & institutions that support the glitter of the gaming & entertainment industry. Examining a range of topics
- from the city`s commercial history, labor conditions, & environmental problems to an analysis of the famous lights of the Strip
- the contributors uncover the contradictions between the illusion & the reality of the city, the seam between fantasy & the life it masks. The essays in this collection explore the world that employees experience when they enter gaming palaces from an employee entrance in a back parking lot rather than through the scripted doors of casino/hotel palaces. They take readers into the neighborhoods where 1.4 million Americans now live, attend school, eat dinner, & go to work.

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` Sometimes it feels like I might be the only person awake in the whole country. People might find that a lonely thought. Not me...` As the rest of the world sleeps, the Gritterman goes out to work. Through the wind & the snow. Through the blue-black hours when time slips away, he grits the paths & the pavements & the roads. For him, a life without gritting is no life at all...A song for the unsung hero, this is a story about stoicism, dignity & a man leaving behind the work that he loves. It is accompanied by the author`s own illustrations. ...

A stunningly illustrated picture book full of mystery & suspense, from the bestselling author of THE STORM WHALE & GRANDAD`S ISL&. ”I know when the Grotlyn`s been Slipping through your house unseen...” What is the mysterious Grotlyn? What sort of creature could it be, scuttling across the town, frightening everyone in its path? & why has it stolen PC Vickers` knickers?! A beautifully illustrated rhyming tale about things that go bump in the night for ages four & up, from picture book superstar, Benji Davies, winner of Oscar`s First Book Prize 2014 & Sainsbury`s Children`s Book of the Year 2015. Perfect for fans of Oliver Jeffers & Jon Klassen. ...