The extraordinary life of photojournalist, artist & avid adventurer Dan Eldon inspired a bestselling book, a foundation to support creative activism, & now a major feature film. Gathering together over 200 pages from Eldon`s journals, this revised edition of the critically acclaimed book features a new foreword by Kweku Mandela, a new afterword by Alicia Dougherty & Approx. 20 new pieces of art. It is the legacy of a young artist killed by an angry mob in Somalia just as his creative powers were beginning to be recognized by himself & others. Through these elaborately collaged & colorful pages, Eldon`s journey will continue to inspire many future generations to come. ...

`I have spent too long on plants & animals. Now it is time for human beings.` This haunting novel is based on the life of Anders Sparrman, the Swedish naturalist, who in the second half of the eighteenth century, became the last & youngest disciple of the scientist Carl Linnaeus. In his quest for new animal & plant specimens, Sparrman sailed to China at seventeen, joined Captain Cook on his second voyage to Antarctica & Tahiti, & made a pioneering journey on foot into the South African interior. In South Africa Sparrman witnessed the terrible cruelties of slavery, which made him a staunch abolitionist for the rest of his life. Wastberg uses his own extensive knowledge of South Africa & Sweden to create a strange, almost mystical narrative, that weaves passages from Sparrman`s letters & journals into his own spare prose. As he follows Sparrman from innocent student to sceptical adventurer to dedicated botanist to militant abolitionist, he evokes the beauty of the Swedish countryside, the squalid conditions on board ship, the dangers & geographical wonders of Africa &, finally, the late flowering passion that overtakes Sparrman`s life. In this magical, poetic novel, set between the end of the Enlightenment & the dawn of Romanticism, Wastberg`s narrative combines intellectual precision with emotional power. ...

`I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, & very frankly give them fruit for their songs.` Joseph ...

This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with tips on equipment, food, surviving bad weather & finding the right campsite, & with facts & stories from the world of camping, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy & adventure of pitching their tent under an open sky. ...

Ralph Storer`s highly entertaining exploration of the lure of the hills is underpinned by hard-won experience
- he has climbed
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Following on in the same vain of The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication detailing everything & anything you want to know about pubs. It celebrates the many facets of the traditional British pub over the years, with chapters on: Pub Characters, Pub Games, Pub Fiddles (how the licensee has shafted his customers over the years), Pub Teams & Pub History from Geoffrey Chaucer to Jeffrey Bernard. It features the great pubs of literature
- Robert Louis Stevenson`s Admiral Benbow, Daphne du Maurier`s Jamaica Inn & Charles Dickens` The Grapes; the great pubs of film
- The Crown Inn at Amersham (Four Weddings & a Funeral), the Crown Inn at Wells (Hot Fuzz); the great pubs of TV
- apart from the Rover`s Return, Queen Vic & Woolpack. It features tales of barring, of dodgy deals of riotous lock-ins & of strange hauntings. The perfect present for anyone who loves their pub or just the idea that they have a pub. Word count: 30, 000


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The Joy of Sheds is a shed miscellany that chronicles man`s need for a small space on his own. It`s a humorous look at every aspect of the shed experience, mixed with shed facts & some practical information too. Many famous people have created in sheds. Inventor Trevor Baylis thought up the clockwork radio in a shed, George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalian in one & Dylan Thomas would compose poetry in his. The average UK male does not tend to devote his shed to poetry, though. Along with chapters on how to customize your shed into an exotic creation, ” Pimp Your Shed”, there are ” Shed Facts”: Almost a fifth of men have had an accident in a shed, it`s the single most dangerous place in the home after the kitchen. Other chapters include ” Shed Vision”, on the typical items stored in sheds, & ” The Genus Shed”, which places the shed in the Linnaean order of buildings. ” Shed Experience” pulls in shed stories from around the world, but particularly Australia, & there are also tales of the ” Euro-Shed”. There are chapters on ” Sheds in Literature” (Lady Chatterly`s Lover & Cold Comfort Farm), ” Sheds at the Movies”, & ” Sheds in Music”. ...

This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with fascinating facts, handy hints & captivating stories "es from the world of walking, is perfect for anyone who knows the incomparable joy & freedom of lacing up your hiking boots & heading for the hills. ...

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater & connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues & copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords & ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys' diaries provide a frank, high-spirited & vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence
- & the side-effects afterwards.
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A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet & anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster & other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy & the detective genre into dazzling convergence. ...