For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo Thondup is none other than the older brother of the Dalai Lama & his special envoy, a trusted interlocutor between Tibet & foreign leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Jawaharlal Nehru, Zhou Enlai to Deng Xiaoping. Indeed, only the Dalai Lama himself has played a more important role in the political history of modern, tragedy-ridden Tibet. Now, for the first time, Gyalo Thondup is prepared to tell his story. His remarkable account offers an intimate, personal look at the Dalai Lama & his immediate family, as well as an insider`s view of the vicious & sometimes deadly struggles within the Potala Palace
- the seat of power in Tibet. His is a story of the `real` Tibet
- a country that is secular as well as sacred, where the source of conflict is not just with China but between Tibetans themselves. Candid & insightful, this long-awaited account reveals Gyalo Thondup to have been a key figure in the great game played out by China, India, Russia & the United States over the strategically important Tibetan plateau.

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The acclaimed chef featured in the Emmy-Award winning US PBS series The Mind of a Chef & the Netflix docuseries Chef`s Table explores the rich baking tradition of the Nordic region, with 450 tempting recipes for home bakers Nordic culture is renowned for its love of baking & baked goods: hot coffee is paired with cinnamon buns spiced with cardamom, & cold winter nights are made cozier with the warmth of the oven. No one is better equipped to explore this subject than acclaimed chef Magnus Nilsson. In The Nordic Baking Book, Nilsson delves into all aspects of Nordic home baking
- modern & traditional, sweet & savory
- with recipes for everything from breads & pastries to cakes, cookies, & holiday treats. No other book on Nordic baking is as comprehensive & informative. Nilsson travelled extensively throughout the Nordic region
- Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finl&, Greenl&, Icel&, Norway, & Sweden
- collecting recipes & documenting the landscape. The 100 photographs in the book have been shot by Nilsson
- now an established photographer, following his successful exhibitions in the US. From the pubisher of Nilsson`s influential & internationally bestselling Faviken & The Nordic Cookbook.




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The Nordic Cookbook offers an unprecedented look at the rich culinary offerings of the Nordic region with 700 recipes collected by the acclaimed Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson. While traveling extensively throughout the Nordic countries
- Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finl&, Greenl&, Icel&, Norway & Sweden, Magnus collected recipes & photographed the finished dishes, as well as the landscape & its people. This beautiful volume, richly illustrated with Magnus Nilsson`s personal photography, unravels the mysteries of Nordic ingredients & introduces Nordic culinary history & cooking techniques. With Magnus as a guide, everyone can cook their favorite Nordic dishes & explore new ones, introducing you to the familiar (smoked salmon, meatballs & lingonberry jam) & less familiar (rose-hip soup, pork roasted with prunes, & juniper & honey beer) aspects of Nordic cuisine. The Nordic Cookbook joins Phaidon`s Mexico the Cookbook, India, Thail&, & others as the definitive cookbook on home cooking from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finl&, Greenl&, Icel&, Norway & Sweden.
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Denmark`s Delia A”
- The Times The world has suddenly discovered that the Nordic diet is comparable in terms of nutrition & healthiness
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Discover fresh, Nordic family cooking with this book from Noma co-founder Claus Meyer. With its focus on good, seasonal ingredients & lightness of touch, Nordic cuisine is perfect family food. In this book, Claus Meyer brings the ethos that built Noma into the world`s best restaurant into the home with easy-going, accessible dishes that will fit seamlessly into family life. The book is divided into four seasonal chapters so that you can get the most from the food & flavours in season. There are also features on food from the wild, including chanterelles, dandelions & blackberries. With recipes including Creamy Root Vegetable Soup with Crispy Bacon, Braised Pork Cheeks with Beer & Plum Vinegar, Pan-fried Mullet with Cucumber & Peas in Dill Butter & Rhubarb Cake you can bring the delicious flavours of the Nordic countries into your own kitchen. ...

Clear maps shoe the waterways & are annotated with practical information for the boat user: Bridge heights, boat yards, slipways, locks & moorings. General tourist information is also included with pubs, restaurants, places of interest, museums, etc also being marked. There is a chapter for each of the main waterways & a detailed but informal text accompanies the maps. At the end of each chapter there is a useful summary with contact details for all places mentioned.

Includes:: a selection of colour photographs.

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The Norfolk Coast is an incredibly varied part of the English Coastline. Along its length the various landscapes include dunes, cliffs, salt marshes, shingle, mudflats & golden sandy beaches. Throw in a smattering of seaside resorts & sleepy harbour villages, nature reserves & a coastal path, & you have an area suitable for many types of visitor from wildlife spotters to those who would rather let the day pass them by as they recline in a deckchair. Its ever-changing nature, caused by the actions of the sea or the weather, makes every visit unique. It is a place where you can 'feel the weather', a meeting point between the elements of the earth, water & air. Great Yarmouth-based landscape photographer Jon Gibbs presents a selection of his dramatic & evocative images of this remarkable stretch of coastline. ...

Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes & Watson? Professor Morley`s guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals
- & murder! It is 1937 & disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where `intelligence is essential`, he applies. Thus begins Sefton`s association with Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect. Morley`s latest project is a history of traditional Engl&, with a guide to every county. They start in Norfolk, but when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church`s bellrope, Morley & Sefton find themselves drawn into a rather more fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life, or was it
- murder? Beginning a thrilling new detective series, ` The Norfolk Mystery` is the first of The County Guides. A must-read for fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Agatha Christie, every county is a crime scene & no-one is above suspicion!

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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful & unified kingdom in Christendom. It is an invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest & most decisive battles ever fought. This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful & yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror`s attack. Why the Normans, in some respects less sophisticated, possessed the military cutting edge. How William`s hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unravelled, dashed by English rebellions, Viking invasions & the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors. This is a tale of powerful drama, repression & seismic social change: the Battle of Hastings itself & the violent ` Harrying of the North`; the sudden introduction of castles & the wholesale rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class. Language, law, architecture, even attitudes towards life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans. Marc Morris, author of the bestselling biography of ” Edward I, A Great & Terrible King”, approaches the Conquest with the same passion, verve & scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, a pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation. ...

With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitler s Atlantic Wall speak of the huge undertaking necessary for the Allies to gain a foothold in Normandy. In this beautiful new full-color book, the reader goes on-site to the sacred battleground from its scarred medieval villages to the remains of modern means of destruction. The huge armada that attacked from Britain left behind many signs of their passage: from the huge caissons of the mulberry harbor around Arromanches, the gun emplacements at Longues & Merville, to the multitude of hardware used as memorials tanks, artillery, pillboxes & the many graves & cemeteries that honor those who died on both sides. It is in memory of the dead that much of what can be seen on the ground survives, but as the last few survivors reach their 90s, a new audience requires information about the events of the past that can only come from seeing the ground where the battle was fought. Today, the beaches are a fascinating mixture of the new & the old, including the new visitors center at Colleville & the renovation & expansion of the Utah Beach museum even as further new memorials jostle with the older sites that have changed little in 70 years. The Normandy Battlefields details what can be seen on the ground today using a mixture of media to provide a complete overview of the campaign. Maps old & new highlight what has survived & what hasn t; then-&-now photography allows fascinating comparisons with the images taken at the time particularly the aerial views & computer artwork provides graphic details of things that can t be seen today. The book describes the area from Cherbourg to Le Havre by way of the key D-Day locations, providing a handbook for the visitor & an overview for the armchair traveler. It covers, wherever possible, the forces from both sides & the memorials to those young men who fought so many years ago.” ...