A group of 20-something adventurers tackle inhospitable geography, harsh climates & the limits of their own endurance all in aid of Cambodian street children as they venture on an overland journey from Germany to Cambodia in the worlds worst car the Soviet-era Trabant. Their escapades include being tailed by the Turkmen KGB, running out of petrol in the Uzbek desert & drinking moonshine with Laotian river folk. ...

Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished, leaving behind only a trail in the s&. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. She had been keeping it at the stables of a certain Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Montalbano investigates, & soon things take a more disturbing turn. But who has Montalbano upset within this strange, unfamiliar world of horse-racing? & what has the Mafia to do with it all? Maneuvering his way through the colorful demimonde of eccentric aristocrats & high-rolling bourgeois, Montalbano must decipher the cryptic messages being sent by those spying on him & once again call upon his special blend of intuition, analysis, play-acting & Proustian memory for good food, if he is to uncover this latest mystery. ...

Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished, leaving behind only a trail in the s&. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. She had been keeping it at the stables of a certain Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Montalbano investigates, & soon things take a more disturbing turn. But who has Montalbano upset within this strange, unfamiliar world of horse-racing? & what has the Mafia to do with it all? Maneuvering his way through the colorful demimonde of eccentric aristocrats & high-rolling bourgeois, Montalbano must decipher the cryptic messages being sent by those spying on him & once again call upon his special blend of intuition, analysis, play-acting & Proustian memory for good food, if he is to uncover this latest mystery. ...

The title of Rod Heikell`s latest writing only hints at this book`s content & coverage. Five years ago the author & his wife, Lu, set out on a circumnavigation & the opening part of The Tradewind Foodie is an account of the successive eastbound passages first to the Caribbean & then on through the Panama Canal to the Pacific, Australia & the Indian Ocean. There`s plenty of practical advice as well as entertaining asides in Rod`s inimitable style on the incidents that contributed to the adventure. Throughout, however, there is a slant towards provisioning, cooking on board & discovering food & restaurants at the numerous landfalls. Rod Heikell provides an extensive selection of tried & tested dishes in the second part of the book. Cooking at sea is an art & Rod`s selection provides a great range of recipes that are practical under most sea conditions. ” Whilst taking you from the Mediterranean on a whirlwind trip west-about the world, dealing with food & provisioning as they go, Rod & Lu also incorporate a surprising amount of interesting information into this book... Having successfully tried a few recipes at home, with their straightforward ingredients list & instructions, I would have no hesitation in trying the rest on board. This is a useful, practical book which also makes for fascinating reading...” Sandy Duker, Cruising Magazine. ...

There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope & the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement. James Walvin offers a new & an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery & of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of ` Amazing Grace`, was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame & contrition. Thomas Thistlewood`s (1721-86) unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner`s life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano`s (1745-97) experience as a slave now speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded. All three men were contemporaries but what held them together, in its destructive gravitational pull, was the Atlantic slave system. ...

In this magical realist blend of the all-too-real, the imaginary & the just plain absurd, the world teeters on the brink of destruction as JFK & Fidel Castro prepare once again for battle. As protests mount on the streets & the wily Castro plans his ruthless final move, the possibility of salvation emerges: the Second Coming of Christ to broker the conflict, assisted by the housewife Fatima. The result is a comical & highly nuanced exploration of the relationships between Capitalism & Communism, oppressed & oppressor, fantasy, memory & reality, in which grey areas proliferate & the rug is repeatedly pulled from beneath the reader`s feet. ...

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing`s Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order & replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution & violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews & memoirs, Frank Dikotter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao`s court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths. ...

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing`s Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order & replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution & violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews & memoirs, Frank Dikotter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao`s court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths. ...

A young boy stumbles across a Punch & Judy show at the pier & enters a world of extraordinary magic. With disturbing mysteries & half-truths uncontrollably unravelling, this boy is forced to deal with his family`s secrets of violence, betrayal & guilt in this dark fable of childhood & growing up. By the bestselling author & illustrator pairing behind the Sandman series & children`s classics, The Graveyard Book & Coraline, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr Punch is woven together with Neil Gaiman & Dave Mc Kean`s trademark eerie elegance & supernatural thrills. In addition to its new cover, each page of this unmissable 20th anniversary edition has been remastered & a gallery of uncanny, sensational original artwork by Dave Mc Kean has been included for the first time. ...

Sven Hedin was one of the world`s greatest explorers. This is the first paperback edition of this classic book. It presents a story of adventure & discovery in Central Asia
- a saleable & appealing combination. In this, the first of the classic travel trilogy
- ” The War”, ” The Road” & ” The Lake”
- Sven Hedin tells the story of a remarkable expedition he made to the remote Chinese province of Xinjiang. Commissioned by the Chinese to map a road through one of the most inhospitable regions in the world, Hedin set out on a journey that saw him become entangled in a bloody war for independence that was raging in the province. Struggling through the battle-scarred l&, Hedin encountered rebel fighters & bandits, was imprisoned & nearly executed. The heart of the story is dominated by the legendary figure of Ma Chung-Yin
- ` Big Horse`
- leader of the uprising. An enthralling account of drama & high adventure, ” The Trail of War” is also an extraordinary portrait of Central Asia & its people.




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