Hold the world in your hands with The Totally Amazing, Fact-Packed, Fold-Out Atlas of the World, a bright & colourful atlas! Designed specifically to make the vast reaches of our planet tangible for a young audience, & including three lavish gatefold maps showing the major continents in rich detail with pictoral insets featuring people, places & wildlife. It presents the world as a place rich in discoveries that readers themselves can make on its pages. Divided by continent, there are lavish gatefolds with textured artworks that show biomes & terrains as well as wildlife, & further maps that show people, places & political boundaries. Discover people, creatures & amazing physical & man-made features, & find out how every part of our planet is both vital & connected. ...

Hold the world in your hands & come face to face with the many wonderful animals that inhabit our extraordinary Earth! Containing over 500 animal photographs, this atlas presents the world as a place rich in wildlife discoveries. Divided by continent, there are lavish, illustrated fold-out maps that show animal habitats, & the accessible text is packed with amazing facts on animal record-breakers, animal helpers & animals to beware of! A fabulous pop-up map showcases major biomes of the Earth so you can see how every part of our natural world is vital & connected. ...

” This year G was the strongest rider, & he finally had Lady Luck on his side. An unstoppable combination” Chris Froome”I understood what Geraint`s win meant: for him, for me, for the team, & for Wales, too” Dave Brailsford” Wow!” Thierry Henry For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck & his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team-mates. In the summer of 2018, that curse was blown away in spectacular fashion
- from the cobbles of the north & the iconic mountain climbs of the Alps to the brutal slopes of the Pyrenees &, finally, the Champs-Elysees in Paris. As a boy, G had run home from school on summer afternoons to watch the Tour on television. This July, across twenty-one stages & three weeks, & under constant attack from his rivals, he made the race his own. With insight from the key characters around Geraint, this is the inside story of one of the most thrilling & heart-warming tales in sport. Not only can nice guys come first
- they can win the biggest prize of all.

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There is something for all cycle racing fans in Tour de France Miscellany. The world`s premier bike race dates back to the start of the last century & has developed a reputation for glamour, glitz & glory. For more than 110 years, the Tour de France has provided the sporting world with some truly historic moments, involving many of the greatest names in modern folklore. Within these pages, the reader will learn hundreds of fascinating facts about the sport on a wide range of topics, from riders & teams to mountain climbs & sprint finishes. As the items appear completely at random, it is not really a book to be read from cover to cover, more one to be dipped into & enjoyed in short breaks. Painstakingly researched by the master of the sporting factoid, Tour de France Miscellany will bring hours of reading pleasure to every sports fan. ...

If there is one mountain climb that embodies the spirit & magic of the Tour de France, it is the Alpe d` Huez. Its twenty-one hairpin turns & average gradient of 8.1 percent over 13.1 kilometers have become legendary, changing the careers of Americans Greg Le Mond & Lance Armstrong, & nearly destroying Jan Ullrich & Marco Pantani. Here at last is the definitive history & unforgettable story of cycling`s greatest challenge.” In The Tour is Won on the Alpe: The Classic Battles of the Tour de France”, cycling historian Jean-Paul Vespini tells the story of this celebrated climb & the mountain that so often acts as the ultimate arbiter for cycling`s biggest prize. Each chapter covers one ascent, starting with Fausto Coppi`s astonishing victory in 1952. Cycling`s most famous names are all present & accounted for: Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Pedro Delgado, Miguel Indurain, Marco Pantani, & of course the American victors Greg Le Mond & Lance Armstrong. Jean-Paul Vespini`s riveting descriptions of each battle to the top include candid interviews with riders, new insight into epic rivalries, & little-known but fascinating facts about the climb that has become a rite of passage for every rider in the peloton. ...

The Tower & St. Katharine`s Dock in 1873-94 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

Remember your visit to the Tower of London for ever with this fascinating expanding pocket guide. Bring to life one of the most famous landmarks in Britain with this fascinating three-dimensional expanding pocket guide. Unfolding to a length of 1.5 metres, the guide features twelve three-dimensional panels on key sites including the White Tower, the Crown Jewels, Tower Green, the Chapel Royal, the ravens, Traitors` Gate, the Yeoman Warders, torture, the Line of Kings, the Bloody Tower & the Royal Menagerie. Published in association with Historic Royal Palaces, this is the perfect souvenir or gift for anyone wishing to remember a trip to the Tower of London or learn more about it. In 2012 the Tower of London was visited by 2, 444, 296 people. It continues the series of these guides published in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Royal Palaces of London was published in 2012. It was also illustrated by Nina Cosford. ...

The Tower of London is an icon of England`s history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion & conquest in 1066 to dominate London, & it has become infamous as a place of torture, execution & murder. The deaths of royals attracted most attention: the murder of the Princes in the Tower, the beheading of Henry VIII`s wives Anne Boleyn & Katherine Howard, & Lady Jane Grey, Henry`s great-niece, & queen for just nine days. Few prisoners recorded their experiences, but John Gerard, a Catholic priest imprisoned during Elizabeth I`s reign, wrote of being questioned in the torture room, which contained `every device & instrument of torture`. After being hung from manacles, his wrists were swollen & he could barely walk. Members of the aristocracy could not be tortured, & those incarcerated for a long time used their time to write. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his vast History of the World in the Tower. Control of the Tower was vital at times of crisis, during rebellions & civil wars. It has also been the country`s principal arsenal. It housed the Royal Mint, the national archives, the Crown jewels & wealthy Londoners` riches, & in the royal menagerie it contained one of the earliest zoos. Stephen Porter`s landmark history traces the evolution of the Tower & its changing role, the many personalities who lived or were imprisoned there, & the `voices` of contemporaries during the Tower`s long history, spanning more than 900 years. ...

Patagonia`s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest & most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies & epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, & why some pursue extreme endeavors that at face value have no worth. ...

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse & publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives of the time as people battled for individuality, retreated to nostalgia, chose to conform, or toed the perilous line between East & West. Poetic, heartfelt & dramatic, The Tower vividly resurrects the sights, scents & sensations of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9 November 1989. Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden. After completing his military service, he lost his place to study medicine on the grounds of `political sabotage`. He was arrested in 1989, but went on to study medicine in Liepzig, Dresden & New York, later becoming a surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he won the German Book Prize for The Tower. ...