This book enables you to discover a galaxy of adventures with the Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) Official Annual 2017. The all-new Official Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) Annual is packed full of galactic entertainment with all-action comic stories, challenging puzzles & fun games. & it comes with a fantastic Lego (registered) & the rest of the Star Wars (trademark) gang for hours of fun in a galaxy far, far away. Lego (registered) Star Wars (trademark) is the best-selling Lego (registered) theme ever! ...

This official guide for younger readers contains everything they need to become true RWC2015 experts. There are easy-to-follow team & star player profiles, complemented by outstanding big-match photographs in what is the only official IRB-endorsed Rugby World Cup 2015 companion for kids. Illustrated with over 100 amazing images, all 20 finalists are featured together with profiles of star players including Chris Robshaw, Richie Mc Caw, Thierry Dusautoir & many more. You can read special features on the stadiums, complete the fill-in progress chart & solve the many fun puzzles, quizzes & games, all based around Rugby World Cup. ...

Tour de France Records 2014 is the latest in Carlton Books' million-selling World Records series. Delving into the world of the Tour de France, the biggest & most glamorous of all cycling races, this volume highlights the great battles for the Yellow Jersey & the polka-dots of the King of the Mountains since the race began in 1903. There are also hundreds of stories & statistics on the legendary riders, famous teams & high mountains which have helped to make the Tour de France one of the most exciting & popular sports spectacles in the world. The stories, features, lists & table are bought to life by fantastic action photography. All fans of Le Grand Boucle (the great loop, because the Tour always encircles France
- with a few stages in adjoining countries
- in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction) will love Tour de France Records 2014, & feel confident about winning any argument about this epic sporting challenge after reading through it from cover to cover.

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Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott & Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. & things would only get worse. Rising to over 7, 000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre
- Baintha Brakk
- is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott & Bonington in 1977
- on expedition with Paul ` Tut` Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland & Mo Anthoine
- it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, & a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre, by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography & history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue & very personal account of his & Bonington`s first ascent & their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs & Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters & audio tapes, it tells of the heroic & selfless roles played by Clive Rowland & Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned
- & themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.




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This is the story of an arena of crime & degradation, of infamy & human suffering. It is the history of the Old Bailey, an institution as flawed as all man-made attempts at justice are doomed to be. In the beginning there was barbarity & injustice. The court was packed with a restless, muttering mob, eager for the verdicts of ' Guilty' so they could enjoy public executions, hurling abuse & missiles at those with the noose around their neck. Today we fool ourselves that we have evolved beyond barbarism, but are made uneasy by the continuing exposure of miscarriage of justice. If we use the Old Bailey as a yardstick, it is possible to argue that mankind has not made much progress through the centuries. In these pages, we tour the courts of long ago, meeting the Dracula-garbed court chaplains, drunken, brutal judges & cold-blooded hangmen. With wit & skill, Theresa Murphy brings to life a cast of hundreds, from the well-known to the less imfamous, who together make up the harrowing history of the Old Bailey. ...

Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away the day catching fish. As he grew older his competitive urge to catch more & bigger fish led him away from that natural connection between him, his grandfather & the rivers of his home & into large commercial fisheries catching fish after fish. That is, until the fateful day he let a record-breaking sand eel slip through his fingers & he knew that he had lost the magic of those days down by the river, & that something had to change. Armed with his late grandfather`s well-thumbed fishing encyclopaedia Will set out on a quest to get back to his roots & catch some of our great forgotten fish species, hidden deep in our lost waterways. The Old Man & the Sand Eel is at its heart the story of three generations of men trying to figure out what it is to be a man, a father & a fisherman. It plots Will`s scaly stepping stones back to his childhood innocence & late granddad, & a return to the importance of understanding the truly feral through a child`s eyes, when anything was possible & the wild was everywhere. ...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Ernest Hemingway`s magnificent fable The Old Man & the Sea is the story of an old man, a young boy & a giant fish. Here, is a perfectly crafted story, a unique & timeless vision of the beauty & grief of man`s challenge to the elements in which he lives. At the beginning of 1940, Hemingway livied in Cuba with Martha Gellhorn (his third wife)- there, his favourite past-time was to sail & fish on his boat- many academics believe that much of this classic novella comes from his time spent there, so much so, that after his death, his boat was given to the Cuban government. The Old Man & the Sea was Hemingway`s last novel before his suicide in 1960, & the one that won for him the Noble Prize for Literature in 1954. ...

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy & a giant fish. It was The Old Man & the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique & timeless vision of the beauty & grief of man`s challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superflous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once & for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature. ...

Octogenarian Anthony Smith`s journey was originally inspired by both the Kontiki Expedition of Thor Heyerdahl (who he knew) & the incredible story of the survivors of a 1940 boat disaster, who spent 70 days adrift in the Atlantic, eventually reaching land emaciated & close to death. While this might sound like a voyage no-one would wish to emulate, to octogenarian Anthony Smith it sounded like an adventure, & he placed a typically straightforward advertisement in the Telegraph that read ” Fancy rafting across the Atlantic? Famous traveller requires 3 crew. Must be OAP. Serious adventurers only.” In his inimitable style, Smith details their voyage & the hardships they endured with a matter-of-fact air that makes his story seem all the more impressive. His advanced age allows him a wider perspective not only on the journey but on life itself, & his never-say-die attitude to the difficulty of the journey is inspirational. ` Old men ought to be explorers` said T.S. Eliot, & this book certainly gives a compelling argument in his favour. It is both a great story (a huge storm on the final night of the voyage almost wrecked them on a reef) & a call to action for the older generation
- do not go quietly, says Anthony Smith, but seek out adventure as long as you are able.
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Mysteries! There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation. So says a rather down-at-heel elderly gentleman to young Polly Burton of the Evening Observer, in the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street one afternoon. Once she has forgiven him for distracting her from her newspaper & luncheon, Miss Burton discovers that her interlocutor is as brilliantly gifted as he is eccentric
- able to solve mysteries that have made headlines & baffled the finest minds of the police without once leaving his seat in the teahouse. As the weeks go by, she listens to him unravelling the trickiest of puzzles & solving the most notorious of crimes, but still one final mystery remains: the mystery of the old man in the corner himself. The Old Man in the Corner is a classic collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective
- a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind & waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle`s creation.

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