COSTA BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST 2011 Written in a truly beguiling voice, Christie Watson`s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. Blessing & her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother & their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel
- only married women can work there
- & soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go & live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is peopled with characters you will never forget.

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Please cut the sewn-in care label off the book before use & retain box for reference. Whether you & your baby are at home or on the move, this first soft cloth book is ideal for cot or pram play. Beautiful colourful artwork is printed on one side, & when flipped over a stunning illustrated narrative is revealed in bold line. Research has indicated that newborn babies love high-contrast images & respond well to them. The Wee Gallery range of board, cloth, & activity books for pre-schoolers marries fresh design with engaging educational content. The result of a fantastic partnership between Wee Gallery & QED Publishing, the beautiful illustrations, bold lines, whimsical animals, & repeating patterns are designed to stimulate visual development in young infants. Family-run Wee Gallery have over 10 years` experience in graphic design & education, & so these books are guaranteed to excite & engage little minds. ...

John G. O` Dwyer has walked the mountains & moorlands of Tipperary & Waterford for many years. His comprehensive guide to the best, most captivating walks in these counties features walks to suit all tastes, from the rugged Comeragh coums to the peaks of the Galtees, from the mythladen hills of Slievenamon & the Devil`s Bit to fi eld systems & ancient pathways in Upperchurch & Kilcommon. Each walk description has directions, the degree of diffi culty, estimated time & maps. But this is more than just a walking guide. Each route is a journey with a story about a landscape littered with historic artefacts. A booley on a hillside tells how the uplands contributed to human survival, a ruined cottage confi rms a battle lost. This guidebook describes walks not just for committed hillwalkers & casual ramblers: it also contains much of interest for environmentalists, historians & all who wish to understand the age-old interaction between humans & hills. ...

Map No. 66, Tipperary Central-West in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. Current 3rd edition of this title was published in December 2011. Maps in the Discovery series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An Óige & independent), tourist offices, parking & picnic places, & viewpoints. Golf courses indicate the number of holes. The maps also highlight antiquities & historical sites such as megalithic tombs, standing stones, battlefields, etc. Road network grades third class roads according to their widths &

Includes:: local tracks. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Where appropriate, place names are given in both Irish & English. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Irish & English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 74, Tipperary South in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An ...

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, & in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl
- I knew it at once!
- that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous & multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King
- oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End `tom`.


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Tippu Tip was chiefly an ivory trader, who pioneered for new sources through present day Tanzania into the Congo basin. Slavery is part of his story, because Arab traders of the time used slaves as porters & sold slaves through the market in Zanzibar to work locally in plantations & beyond in the Gulf & Persia. He was a pioneer of discovery, both in Arab terms & because this was the great period of European exploration in East & Central Africa: he assisted most of the famous explorers, including Livingstone & Stanley, when it served his interests. He can be seen as an Afro-Arab exponent of empire, as his commercial ambitions could only be realized by means of Arab territorial control & colonization. His colorful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the ` Congo Free State` of the Belgian King Leopold, & in his involvement in Stanley`s astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. Uniquely among Arabs & Africans of this era, Tippu Tip wrote an autobiography. Stuart Laing draws on this & other contemporary sources to give a graphic account of the life & times of this energetic, resourceful, ruthless but often humorous operator. We watch him as he accumulates wealth & power, but then has to stand by helplessly as the British & German colonial machine carves up the territory of his friend & protector, the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar, & as the Belgian empire in the Congo drives the Arabs out of the trading areas of influence they had established west of Lake Tanganyika. This book is the first thorough investigation in English of this significant figure. The lucid narrative unfolds against the political & economic backdrop of European & American commercial aims, while allowing the reader to see the period through African & Arab eyes. The fascinating figures who strutted the 19th-century African stage, & their hardly believable exploits, give this book an appeal reaching beyond the African specialist to the general reader. ...

What do you tip the bellboy in Botswana? Should you give a gratuity on top of the service charge in a Parisian restaurant? Is it good practice to pay a Casablanca snake charmer if you wish to take his photo? Everyone who travels, whether for business or pleasure, has suffered the embarrassment caused by not knowing when or how much to tip. Now Bradt`s ” Tipping” offers the answers in a convenient, pocket-sized guide covering more than 130 countries. With black & white illustrations & photographs throughout, the book in addition features light-hearted personal anecdotes & tips drawn from the authors` careers in travel. ...

Tiptala Bhanjyan, sheet no. 2787-03, in the topographic survey of Nepal at 1:50, 000 published by the Nepali Government in the late 1990s & early 2000s & produced from remote sensing data by Finnish cartographers as part of that country’s international aid program. The maps cover 15’ x 15’ quadrangles.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: AVAILABILITY: although, theoretically at least, still in print, these maps are very difficult to get locally in Nepal and/or from various suppliers elsewhere specializing in obtaining such maps. DELIVERIES MAY TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OR EVEN MONTHS.PROBLEMS WITH PLACE NAMES: reports from previous users indicate that transliteration of place names differs from that used widely not only on other maps & in guide books but also on the ground itself, in road signs & in the tourist & trekking industry in general. Whilst most names are similar enough to be easily recognizable, e.g. Namche Bajar for Namche Bazar or Lantan for Langtang, we have been told of confusion & difficulties arising from different spellings appearing on these maps.TREKKING ROUTES & TOURIST INFORMATION: whilst the maps show foot trails & mark locations of temples, etc, they carry no specific trekking information. Major trekking routes & places of interest are not highlighted. There is no marking for base camps & other tourist facilities. Map specifications: Contours are at 40m intervals, with graphics and/or coloring to show various features of the terrain (glaciers with moraines & crevasses, quarries, gravel or clay pits, etc.) & vegetation (forests, bush, grass, orchards & plantations, etc). Additional comments such as “open mixed forest mainly bajh & pine” annotate many area. The maps have numerous spot heights, but relatively few peaks are named. Areas outside the country’s borders are left blank. Settlements in remote areas are indicated by markings for individual buildings & the placing of names does not always make it clear which group of buildings they refer to. Road network distinguishes between major & minor foot trails. Symbols mark features such as temples, schools & hospitals, police stations, etc. Also shown are the country’s administrative divisions. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend & all the text is in English. Coverage: the whole country is now covered, with the north at 1:50, 000, plus central & southern Nepal at 1:25, 000. The two series are complementary, do not overlap & use the same grid & numbering system (apart from the Lumbini Zone, where a different grid & numbering are used). For areas not shown on our grid & titles not listed here, please contact us by e-mail, but please do bear in mind the problems with availability & the likely very long delivery time. ...

Tipton in 1904 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers an industrial area in the northern part of Tipton, extending northward to Bloomfield, Tibbington, Summer Hill, Princes End, Walbrook, & westward to Foxyards Colliery. There are numerous old coal shafts & other reminders that this was once a busy coalfield. Features include LNWR Stour Valley line with Tipton station, GWR OWW line with Tipton & Princes End stations, Birmingham Canal (Wolverhampton Level), Foxyards Inn, Toll End Locks, Horseley Colliery (disused), Moat Colliery, several brick works, industrial tramways, Rounds Hill Colliery, Tipton UDC offices, Workhouse Lane Bridge, LNWR Princes End Branch with Princes End station, St John`s church, Factory Locks, several other factories (not always named), etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...