Mark Twain wrote a series of travel letters whilst on a tour of Europe & the Middle East in 1867 with a group of American pilgrims A. These letters later formed the basis of The Innocents Abroad. Journeying from New York to Egypt via France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey & the Holy L&, he observed & lampooned his companions with typically caustic & incisive commentary. The local people he encountered fared little better. In frequently humorous, sometimes grotesque detail, Twain records the day-to-day ups & downs of discovering the truth about people & places, while pillorying those tourists who rely on guidebooks rather than their own impressions to define their experiences. ...

Mark Twain wrote a series of travel letters whilst on a tour of Europe & the Middle East in 1867 with a group of American `pilgrims`. These letters later formed the basis of The Innocents Abroad. Journeying from New York to Egypt via France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey & the Holy L&, he observed & lampooned his companions with typically caustic & incisive commentary. The local people he encountered fared little better. The resulting fresh, irreverent account of the New Barbarians` encounter with the Old World satirises the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. In frequently humorous, sometimes grotesque, detail, Twain records the day-to-day ups & downs of discovering the truth about people & places, whilst pillorying those tourists who rely on guidebooks rather than their own impressions to define their experiences. Endlessly comic & entertaining, The Innocents Abroad remains one of the most celebrated & influential travel books ever written about Europe & the Middle East by an American. ...

After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk
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The Inside Passage is a photographic record of the waterway which runs from Seattle to Skagway, via the shores of Vancouver & past the port of Prince Rupert, a route previously used by gold prospectors to travel to their claims. The region is a labyrinth of countless islands, impressive coastal mountains, & rainforests rich in diversity. Bernd R ...

Seen from first one view & then another, London’s sights reveal the energy, majesty, & human dimension that make the city so intensely historic & uniquely civilised. With a turn of the page, the gracefully patterned entrance to the British museum leads to ancient patterns of another sort. The stately lines of the Houses of Parliament give way to the close quarters of the Houses of Commons. A double-decker bus rolls down Regent Street to arrive at the open vista of Trafalgar Square. From mummies to knights, from Waterloo Station to Buckingham Palace, this beautifully illustrated book is a treasure for children & travellers of all ages. ...

An island shrouded in mist & a community with secrets buried in the past. When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Is it an ancient find
- or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident in the middle of the night. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson
- his own colleague, Sandy Wilson. The sparse landscape & the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce & secretive people. Mima Wilson was a recluse. She had her l&, her pride & her family. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed & bitterness have lasted generations. Surrounded by people he doesn`t know & in unfamiliar territory, Jimmy finds himself out of his depth. Then there`s another death &, as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again.

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Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, & seamanship questions The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, & boat handling under sail or power more accessibly & effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about: Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet Sail Trim & Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet Using GPS--Bob Sweet Using VHF & SSB Radios--Bob Sweet Rules of the Road & Running Light Patterns--Charlie Wing Knots, Splices, & Line Handling--Charlie Wing Anchoring--Peter Nielsen Onboard Weather Forecasting--Bob Sweet Heavy Weather Sailing--John Rousmaniere Diesel Engine Care & Repair--Nigel Calder Emergencies On Board--John Rousmaniere Emergency First Aid On Board--Richard Clinchy ...

As a Fabian & lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections & relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were ”corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest”. Idealism, integrity & piecemeal attempts at political reform were all futile in the face of the gross injustice built into our economic system. & because a capitalist economy could never function smoothly, private property was not merely a form of robbery, but robbery with violence. ...

Remarkable Sentence by sentence, Goldman brings to life a city that is bewitching, terrifying, beautiful. Goldman brings something new to the [chronicle] form. John Freeman, ” Boston Globe” ” The Interior Circuit” is Sue Kaufman prize-winner Francisco Goldman s brilliant chronicle of his emergence from grief five years after his beloved wife s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City (the DF). When organized crime erupts in the city in an unprecedented way during the summer of 2013, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the DF now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophical, & urgent, ” The Interior Circuit” fuses a personal journey to a searing account of one of the world s most remarkable & often misunderstood great cities. An indispensable contribution to the growing body of artistic representations of Mexico s most recent years of darkness...there is an urgent, raw beauty in [ Goldman s] prose. Ruben Martinez, ” Los Angeles Review of Books” ...

” The Interior Circuit is Goldman`s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife`s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores & celebrates the city which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills & violence wracking Mexico. This is the chronicle of an awakening, both personal & political, `interior` & `exterior`, to the meaning & responsibilities of home. Mexico`s narcotics war rages on &, with the restoration of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI) to power in the 2012 elections, the DF`s special apartness seems threatened. In the summer of 2013, when Mexican organized-crime violence & deaths erupt in the city in an unprecedented way, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophic, & urgent, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to an account of one of the world`s most remarkable & often misunderstood cities.” ...