Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's Footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn Nick Hunt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
15 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h199mm x w129mm x s22mm 238g ISBN13: 9781857886436 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-643-6 ISBN10: 1857886437 This Product Replaces: 9781857886177 x Description: In 1933, the eighteen year old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water, and the posthumous The Broken Road are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct, landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Aged eighteen, Nick Hunt read A Time of Gifts and dreamed of following in Fermor's footsteps. In 2011 he began his own great trudge - on foot all the way to Istanbul. He walked across Europe through eight countries, following two major rivers and crossing three mountain ranges. Using Fermor's books as his only travel guide, he trekked some 2,500 miles through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. His aim? To have an old-fashioned adventure. To slow down and linger in a world where we pass by so much, so fast. To discover for himself what remained of hospitality, kindness to strangers, freedom, wildness, adventure, the mysterious, the unknown, the deeper currents of myth and story that still flow beneath Europe's surface. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Between the Woods and the Water: on Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland - The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
08 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h17mm x w140mm x s197mm 176g frontispiece and map ISBN13: 9780719566967 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6696-7 ISBN10: 0719566967 x Description: The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania. The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges. Although Between the Woods and the Water was published nine years after A Time of Gifts, Fermor is famously still at work on the concluding part of his trilogy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h200mm x w149mm x s25mm 263g ISBN13: 9781848547544 ISBN13: 978-1-84854-754-4 ISBN10: 1848547544 x Description: The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. 'When are you going to finish Vol. III?' was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road - edited and introduced by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper - completes an extraordinary journey. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Europe Michael Palin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w128mm x s27mm 340g col. Illustrations, col. map, col. ports. ISBN13: 9780753823972 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2397-2 ISBN10: 0753823977 x Description: No. 1 bestseller and superstar doing what he does best, introducing millions of avid readers to little-known peoples and places. Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, and exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. NEW EUROPE is very much a voyage of discovery, from the snows of the Julian Alps to the beauty of the Baltic sea, he finds himself in countries he'd barely heard of, many unfamiliar and mysterious, all with tragic histories and much brighter futures. During his 20-country adventure Palin meets Romanian lumberjacks, drives the 8.58 stopping train from Poznan to Wolsztyn, treads the catwalk at a Budapest fashion show, learns about mine-clearing in Bosnia and watches Turkish gents wrestling in olive oil. As with all his bestselling books, in his uniquely entertaining style, Palin opens up a new and undiscovered world to millions of readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day Mark Mazower (Author) Series:
Universal History
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h164mm x w199mm x s15mm 162g 7 maps ISBN13: 9781842125441 ISBN13: 978-1-84212-544-1 ISBN10: 1842125443 x Description: A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics. At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe for ever. But two hundred years
earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the 'Rumeli' that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands they had conquered from Byzantium, together with their Christian inhabitants. In this original account of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped its inhabitants' lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia it has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Mazower's narrative ranges broadly both in time and in space, treating the former Turkish domains in Europe as part of a common if complex historical inheritance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Muslim Discovery Of Europe Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h236mm x w157mm x s24mm 402g 30 ISBN13: 9781842121955 ISBN13: 978-1-84212-195-5 ISBN10: 1842121952 x Description: 'The book covers every side of Muslim life ...a remarkable collection of new information, which will be of deep interest to students of European history' R.W. Southern, NEW YORK REVIEW Turning the traditional focus of western scholarship on its head, Professor Bernard Lewis, author of THE MIDDLE EAST (Phoenix Press) and one of the world's foremost experts on Islamic history, examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. His lively book explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries, retelling familiar historical events such as the battle of Lepanto and the siege of Vienna from an Arab perspective. Quoting from Islamic writers and scholars, he recounts their reactions to the West, their impressions of Western gardens, paintings, parliaments, hygiene, manners, and even the necklaces of western women. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Metrostop Paris: History from the City's Heart Gregor Dallas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 Feb 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h196mm x w129mm x s17mm 184g map ISBN13: 9780719560637 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6063-7 ISBN10: 0719560632 x Description: The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. Both the armchair traveller and the visitor wil enjoy an illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller and veteran of the city. The book includes visits to Paris catacombs at Hell's Gate, the literary cafes and old jazz cellars of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Pres and the seventeenth-century alleys of the Marais, along with trips to the Palais-Royal at the time of the Revolution and the world of opera during Claude Debussy's lifetime. Through the eyes of the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Dallas describes the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War and the intellectual wars that immediately followed. A visit to the futuristic Cit de la Science at La Villette prompts the story of the Marquis de Mores, the French cowboy and anti-semite, who was eventually murdered by tribesmen of the Sahara Desert in 1896. Outside the Jesuit church of Saint-Paul Dallas tells us about Gabriel de Montgomery, forgotten ancestor of Montgomery of Alamein, who accidentally killed his king just there and, after leading the Protestant armies against Catherine de Medicis, was executed on the Place de Greve. This exciting journey through time and space concludes at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery with the unknown tale of Oscar Wilde's strange involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, the greatest legal scandal of all time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paris in 3D in the Belle Epoque: A Book Plus Steroeoscopic Viewer and 34 3D Photos Bruno Fuligni (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Publisher:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Pub Date:
05 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 128pp h249mm x w202mm x s58mm 838g More than 300 b&w photos In box ISBN13: 9781579129583 ISBN13: 978-1-57912-958-3 ISBN10: 1579129587 x Description: This handsome, unique package-containing a stereoscopic viewer, 34 3D photographic cards, and a photo-packed paperback bookoffers a rare view of Paris, the world's most beautiful city, during an era when art, literature, poetry, and music blossomed and reigned. Paris during the Belle Epoque (1880-1914) was a time when peace and prosperity allowed for towering innovation in art, fashion, architecture, and gastronomy. The city at this time was the epicenter of art and music. Faure, Saint Saens, Debussy, and Ravel were composing; Rodin was working on The Thinker; Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Pissarro, and Degas painted scenes depicting everyday life; and Pablo Picasso embarked on his Blue Period. As Art Nouveau came into fashion, new buildings followed suit. Opera Garnier, Castel Beranger, Moulin Rouge, and the Paris Metro entrances were all built during this time. Galeries Lafayette unveiled its gilded department store, which sold couture to the aspiring middle class. This burgeoning creativity and prosperity, as well as the city and the inhabitants who embraced it, are all captured here, with stunning clarity and realism. Paris in 3D's innovative and inimitable package includes a sturdy metal stereoscopic viewer, 34 rarely seen stereoscopic photographs of the city at the turn of the century, and an accompanying 128-page paperback, which provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution during that time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Brief History of France Cecil Jenkins (Author) Series:
Brief Histories
Edition:
Imprint:
Robinson Publishing
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
26 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 265g maps ISBN13: 9781845298685 ISBN13: 978-1-84529-868-5 ISBN10: 1845298683 x Description: When we think of France we often evoke images of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris, the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, it is a place of huge diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged from over 2000 years of history and it is a riveting story from Roman conquest to the present day. Cecil Jenkins tells the story of the formation of this nation through its people, great events and culture. Through this narrative he charts why the French began to see themselves as so different from the rest of Europe and why, today, they face the same problems of identity as many other nations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Almost French: A New Life in Paris Sarah Turnbull (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd edition
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
26 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 324pp h199mm x w129mm x s22mm 306g ISBN13: 9781857883701 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-370-1 ISBN10: 1857883705 This Product Replaces: 9781857883169 x
Description: A delightful new twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes readers on a tour fraught with culture clashes but rife with insight and deadpan humour - a charming true story of what happens when Sarah meets a very French Frenchman. Backpacking around Europe, twentysomething Sarah Turnbull meets Frederic and impulsively accepts his invitation to visit him for a week in Paris. Eight years later, she is still there - and married to him. The feisty Sydney journalist swaps vegemite for vichyssoise and all things French, but commits the fatal errors of bowling up to strangers at classy receptions, helping herself to champagne, laughing too loudly and (quelle horreur!) rushing out for a baguette in her 'pantalons de jogging'. But Paris' maddening, mysterious charm proves irresistible and Sarah makes spectacular progress. She finds work as a freelance journalist, learns to survive Parisian dinner parties and how to deal with grim-faced officialdom. As she navigates the highs and lows of Parisian life, covering the haute couture fashions shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, Sarah succeeds in becoming 'almost French'. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Five Hundred Buildings of Paris James Driscoll (Author) Jorg Brockmann (Author) Kathy Borrus (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Publisher:
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 608pp h190mm x w168mm x s38mm 1176g 500 b&w illus UK Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9781579128586 ISBN13: 978-1-57912-858-6 ISBN10: 1579128580 x Description: Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved citiesThe greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of Paris come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. Information including the building's name, its address and location, and year of completion or renovation is included underneath the image. A brief description of each building, which highlights its distinctive features and places it in historical context, is included at the back of the book. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Summer in Gascony: The Other South of France Martin Calder (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd edition
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w130mm x s19mm 244g Illustrations, maps ISBN13: 9781857885316 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-531-6 ISBN10: 1857885317 x Description: The only travel writing book on Gascony, A Summer in Gascony is a charming and humorous tale of an extraordinary summer spent in this relatively unknown part of south-western France, the home of D Artagnan, Cyrano de Bergerac, gutsy red wine, fine sweet wine Armagnac and sunflowers. It is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance and a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine country. Stretching from Toulouse in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west, from the river Garonne in the north to the Pyrenees in the south, Gascony is a golden land of rolling hills and wide horizons, swathed with vineyards, sunflowers, maize and pastures. It has a distinct identity which sets it apart from the rest of France and old affinities with England: the Gascons fought alongside the English in the Middle Ages and the Napoleonic Wars against their common foe the French. In the tiny hamlet of Peguilhan, Martin Calder is introduced to the Gascon way of life: working in the fields, shepherding and slaughtering sheep, feeding the cattle, harvesting the wheat, watering the crops. He discovers a unique people, fiercely proud of their independent heritage. Full of colourful characters: the charismatic and convivial Jacques-Henri, the hardworking farmer whose family take Martin into their home and hearts; the yoga-practising Germans; Pattes, the mischievous stray dog; Madame Parle-Beaucoup, the town gossip and Monsieur Fustignac, whose pride in his Gascon heritage is unforgettable. But the real star of the book is Gascony itself, with its strong spirit of independence and the simple pleasures it provides. Written by a true Francophile who has come to know the people and understands their way of life, A Summer in Gascony evokes the spirit, sights, smells and sounds of this still relatively unknown and unspoiled other South of France. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean Carol Drinkwater (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h197mm x w136mm x s30mm 338g 1 maps ISBN13: 9780752881393 ISBN13: 978-0-7528-8139-3 ISBN10: 0752881396 x Description: Fourth volume in the bestselling olive series by writer and actress Carol Drinkwater Since Carol Drinkwater moved to an olive farm in France she has developed a passion for the olive tree and the culture that has grown up around it. From the eastern shores of the shimmering Mediterranean to its western coast this fruit is farmed. Its silvery-green branches have inspired painters and poets, but who first pressed its 'bitter berry' and transformed it into liquid gold? In quest of its secrets and traditions, Carol embarked on a solo adventure round the Mediterranean basin. Transporting readers across the olive's ancient paths, celebrating its venerable past, tracking trade routes, unearthing unlikely stories, encountering peoples of today and bygone times, Carol comes full circle, back to her farm in the sun-baked Provencal hills. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City Russell Shorto (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
08 May 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w134mm x s29mm 365g Section: 16, b/w photos ISBN13: 9780349000022 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00002-2 ISBN10: 0349000026 x Description: Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto's masterful biography looks at Amsterdam's central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siecle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it is still a city that takes individual freedom very seriously. A wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam's dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, Amsterdam is the definitive book on this great city. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands Ben Coates (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
09 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h214mm x w136mm x s24mm 390g Colour photos ISBN13: 9781857886337 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-633-7 ISBN10: 185788633X x Description: *A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one of the world's smallest countries is
also so significant and so fascinating. It is a self-made country, the Dutch national character shaped by the ongoing battle to keep the water out from the love of dairy and beer to the attitude to nature and the famous tolerance. Ben Coates investigates what makes the Dutch the Dutch, why the Netherlands is much more than Holland and why the colour orange is so important. Along the way he reveals why they are the world's tallest people and have the best carnival outside Brazil. He learns why Amsterdam's brothels are going out of business, who really killed Anne Frank, and how the Dutch manage to be richer than almost everyone else despite working far less. He also discovers a country which is changing fast, with the Dutch now questioning many of the liberal policies which made their nation famous. A personal portrait of a fascinating people, a sideways history and an entertaining travelogue, Why the Dutch are Different is the story of an Englishman who went Dutch. And loved it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart Diccon Bewes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
08 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h197mm x w129mm x s21mm 226g ISBN13: 9781857886511 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-651-1 ISBN10: 1857886518 This Product Replaces: 9781857886252 x Description: In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money Diccon Bewes (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd Revised edition
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h215mm x w136mm x s25mm 412g B&W maps ISBN13: 9781857885873 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-587-3 ISBN10: 1857885872 This Product Replaces: 9781857885484 x Description: New updated edition, new statistics and Epilogue One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 80% of them Swiss): there's nowhere else in Europe like it. Switzerland may be almost 400 km from the nearest drop of seawater, but it is an island at the centre of Europe. Welcome to the landlocked island. Swiss Watching is a fascinating journey around Europe's most individual and misunderstood country. From seeking Heidi and finding the best chocolate to reliving a bloody past and exploring an uncertain future, Diccon Bewes proves that there's more to Switzerland than banks and skis, francs and cheese. This book dispels the myths and unravels the true meaning of Swissness. In a land of cultural contradictions, this is a picture of the real and normally unseen Switzerland, a place where the breathtaking scenery shaped a nation not just a tour itinerary, and where tradition is as important as innovation. It's also the story of its people, who have more power than their politicians, but can't speak to one another in the same language and who own more guns per head than the people of Iraq. As for those national cliches, well, not all the cheese has holes, cuckoo clocks aren't Swiss and the trains don't always run exactly on time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nordicana: 100 Icons of Scandi Culture and Nordic Cool Arrow Film Distributors Ltd (Author) Kajsa Kinsella (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Cassell Illustrated
Publisher:
Octopus Publishing Group
Pub Date:
04 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h199mm x w198mm x s24mm 606g Approx. 100 illustrations ISBN13: 9781844038053 ISBN13: 978-1-84403-805-3 ISBN10: 184403805X x Description: You've watched every Scandi TV series going, you have Nordic light fittings, and you want Birgitte Nyborg as your Prime Minister. Yes it's fair to say there is a general love-in with everything related to the northern countries. Over the last decade, the Nordic nations have quietly and unassumingly come to hold us in their thrall; but what is it, exactly, that we covet about their culture? Nordicana celebrates the objects, aesthetics and traditions that have inspired our obsession, with a quick introduction to 100 icons of Scandi style and Nordic cool, accompanied by beautiful illustrations. Whether it is the inimitable Faroe Isles jumper, made famous by TV detective Sarah Lund; the unusual-tasting delicacy salted liquorice; the ubiquitous Swedish Dala horse; the concept of 'hygge' (a feeling evoked by being in candlelit warmth with friends during winter); Midsomer seasonal celebrations; practical but breathtakingly stylish interiors; or an enduring love of noir literature and dramas, you'll find the key to attaining the Nordic way of life in these pages. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Berlin: City of Imagination Rory MacLean (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h158mm x w200mm x s26mm 320g ISBN13: 9781780224589 ISBN13: 978-1-78022-458-9 ISBN10: 1780224583 x Description: The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra John Julius Norwich (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w130mm x s26mm 290g ISBN13: 9781848548978 ISBN13: 978-1-84854-897-8 ISBN10: 1848548974 x Description: 'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. 'I discovered Sicily almost by mistake ...We drove as far as Naples, then put the car on the night ferry to Palermo. There was a degree of excitement in the early hours when we passed Stromboli, emitting a rich glow every half-minute or so like an ogre puffing on an immense cigar; and a few hours later, in the early morning sunshine, we sailed into the Conca d'Oro, the Golden Shell, in which the
city lies. Apart from the beauty of the setting, I remember being instantly struck by a change in atmosphere. The Strait of Messina is only a couple of miles across and the island is politically part of Italy; yet somehow one feels that one has entered a different world ...This book is, among other things, an attempt to analyse why this should be.' The stepping stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation post, Sicily has been invaded and fought over by Phoenicians and Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, Spaniards and the French for thousands of years. It has belonged to them all - and yet has properly been part of none. John Julius Norwich was inspired to become a writer by his first visit in 1961 and this book is the result of a fascination that has lasted over half a century. In tracing its dark story, he attempts to explain the enigma that lies at the heart of the Mediterranean's largest island. This vivid short history covers everything from erupting volcanoes to the assassination of Byzantine emperors, from Nelson's affair with Emma Hamilton to Garibaldi and the rise of the Mafia. Taking in the key buildings and towns, and packed with fascinating stories and unforgettable characters, Sicily is the book he was born to write. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present John Dickie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
13 Feb 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w137mm x s36mm 426g 2 x 8pp b&w ISBN13: 9781444726411 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-2641-1 ISBN10: 1444726412 x Description: In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with terrifying consequences. The Financial Times described John Dickie's MAFIA BROTHERHOODS as 'Powered by the sort of muscular prose that one associates with great detective fiction' and in MAFIA REPUBLIC John Dickie again marries outstanding scholarship with compelling storytelling. In 1946, Italy became a democratic Republic, thereby entering the family of modern western nations. But deep within Italy there lurked a forgotten curse: three major criminal brotherhoods, whose methods had been honed over a century of experience. As Italy grew, so did the mafias. Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the camorra from Naples, and the mysterious 'ndrangheta from Calabria stood ready to enter the wealthiest and bloodiest period of their long history. Italy made itself rich by making scooters, cars and handbags. The mafias carved out their own route to wealth through tobacco smuggling, construction, kidnapping and narcotics. And as criminal business grew exponentially, the mafias grew not just more powerful, but became more interconnected. By the 1980s, Southern Italy was on the edge of becoming a narco-state. The scene was set for a titanic confrontation between heroic representatives of the law, and mafiosi who could no longer tolerate any obstacle to their ambitions. This was a war for Italy's future as a civilized country. At its peak in 1992-93, the 'ndrangheta was beheading people in the street, and the Sicilian mafia murdered its greatest enemies, investigating magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, before embarking on a major terrorist bombing campaign on the Italian mainland. Today, the long shadow of mafia history still hangs over a nation wracked by debt, political paralysis, and widespread corruption. While police put their lives on the line every day, one of Silvio Berlusconi's ministers said that Italy had to 'learn to live with the mafia'; suspicions of mafia involvement still surround some of the country's most powerful media moguls and politicians. The latest investigations show that its reach is astonishing: it controls much of Europe's wholesale cocaine trade, and representatives from as far away as Germany, Canada and Australia come to Calabria to seek authorisation for their affairs. Just when it thought it had finally contained the mafia threat, Italy is now discovering that it harbours the most global criminal network of them all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from my Italian Mother-in-Law Katherine Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fleet
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h235mm x w164mm x s24mm 400g UK Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9780349006307 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00630-7 ISBN10: 034900630X x Description: Arriving in Naples as a naive young intern at the American Consulate, Katherine is set up on a blind date - at least that's what she's expecting. Instead, Salvatore brings her home to eat pizza with his family. But this is no ordinary pizza, and the woman who makes it is no ordinary
woman. Katherine and Salve do end up dating - and marrying - but it's Salvatore's mother who truly initiates Katherine into Italian society, offering her a culinary and cultural education that marks the beginning of her womanhood. Along the way, Katherine dabbles in dubbing porn, learns to cook an octopus, and fends off frisky Italian suitors. Most importantly, she acquires carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of living with comfort and confidence in one's body. Only in Naples recalls the rich and wry culinary writing of Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking and the charmingly eccentric family portraits of Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend -is Never Happened. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance Marlena De Blasi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
20 Mar 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h153mm x w202mm x s17mm 172g ISBN13: 9781844080205 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-020-5 ISBN10: 184408020X x Description: When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up kids goodbye, and moves to Venice. Once there, she finds herself sitting in sugar-scented pasticcerie, strolling through sixteenth-century palazzi, renovating an apartment overlooking the seductive Adriatic Sea, and preparing to wed a virtual stranger in an ancient stone church. As this transplanted American learns the hard way about the peculiarities of Venetian culture, we are treated to an honest, often comic view of how two middle-aged people, both set in their ways but also set on being together, build a life. A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE is filled with the foods and flavours of Italy and peppered with recipes and culinary observations. But the main course here is about a woman who falls in love with both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't know she was missing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy Chris Harrison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
14 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h199mm x w129mm x s25mm 256g ISBN13: 9781857886467 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-646-7 ISBN10: 1857886461 This Product Replaces: 9781857885217 x Description: WINNER OF THE GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION PRIZE When Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about to change forever. There he meets Daniela - one L, smile as you say it to pronounce it correctly - and it's amore at first sight. Before he can say si, he's uprooted to follow her to her sun-kissed hometown of Andrano, Puglia, tucked in the heel of southern Italy. The whitewashed houses, olive groves and cobblestone lanes are beautiful, but soon Chris is getting to grips with everyday Italian life. There's infuriating bureaucracy, an anarchic road system and - biggest challenge of all - Daniela's mamma, who's determined to convert him to the Catholic faith and build an extension on her house where the couple might live la dolce vita. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pompeii Alex Butterworth (Author) Ray Laurence (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 May 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w130mm x s27mm 355g 28, 3 maps ISBN13: 9780753820766 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2076-6 ISBN10: 0753820765 x Description: A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption which has become part of our collective popular imagination. Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence have synthesised the latest research into Pompeii to bring this period of flux and instability back to life. By concentrating on key members from each strata of Pompeiian society we are plunged into the everyday life of a city rebuilding itself, in the knowledge that it will all be for nothing when Vesuvius erupts. So we follow Suedius Clemens who has been sent by Vespasian to settle disputes over land; Decimus Satrius Lucretius Valens who is set to join Pompeii's elite magistrates following the death of his protector; the Vettii brothers who were fabulously rich and ostentacious dealers in wine and perfume; Pherusa, the runaway slave; lusty young Rustus who is contemplating parricide... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rome: A Cultural History Robert Hughes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 624pp h202mm x w129mm x s38mm 512g 16 ISBN13: 9780753823057 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2305-7 ISBN10: 0753823055 x Description: A dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD. For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Rome's cultural predominance was assured, artists and tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens and Bernini. Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a monument both to human glory and human error. In equal parts loving, iconoclastic, enraged and wise, peopled with colourful figures and rich in unexpected details, ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the world's most glorious cities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia John Dickie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 528pp h206mm x w185mm x s34mm 398g 16pp b/w photos ISBN13: 9780340935262 ISBN13: 978-0-340-93526-2 ISBN10: 034093526X x Description: COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured
Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, COSA NOSTRA reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day, from the lemon groves and sulphur mines of Sicily, to the streets of Manhattan. COSA NOSTRA is a definitive history, rich in atmosphere, and with the narrative pace of the best detective fiction, and has been updated to make it the most vital contemporary account of the mafia ever published. The mob genre has finally grown up. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of San Michele Axel Munthe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w140mm x s23mm 254g ISBN13: 9780719566998 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6699-8 ISBN10: 0719566991 x Description: This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and earthquake disasters. It was during this period that he came across the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele, perched high above the glittering Bay of Naples on Capri. With the help of Mastro Nicola and his three sons, and with only a charcoal sketch roughly drawn on a garden wall to guide them, Munthe devoted himself to rebuilding the house and chapel. Over five long summers they toiled under a sapphire-blue sky, their mad-cap project leading them to buried skeletons and ancient coins, and to hilarious encounters with a rich cast of vividly-drawn villagers. The Story of San Michele reverberates with the mesmerising hum of a long, hot Italian summer. Peopled with unforgettable characters, it is as brilliantly enjoyable and readable today as it was upon first publication. The book quickly became an international bestseller and has now been translated into more than 30 languages; it is today an established classic, and sales number in the millions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Englishman in Madrid Eduardo Mendoza (Author) Nick Caistor (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w134mm x s26mm 260g ISBN13: 9781782068372 ISBN13: 978-1-78206-837-2 ISBN10: 1782068376 x Description: Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duke's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duke will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands - ever the fool for a pretty face - vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
It's All Greek to Me: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina - And Real Greeks John Mole (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd New edition
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
14 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 254g ISBN13: 9781857886504 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-650-4 ISBN10: 185788650X This Product Replaces: 9781857883756 x Description: UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW CHAPTER Intoxicated with dreams of a Greek paradise, John Mole inflicts upon his family a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung...far away from the tourist resorts and posh hotels. Through hard work and comic misadventures a bond is formed with a vivid cast of village characters - from Elpida who cures back pain with raw eggs to beautiful Eleni yearning for Dusseldorf - over bottles of ouzo, whisky and wine. If only Hector the dog would calm down. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blue Skies and Black Olives: A Survivor's Tale of Housebuilding and Peacock Chasing in Greece John Humphrys (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w142mm x s20mm 210g 8pp colour photos ISBN13: 9780340978849 ISBN13: 978-0-340-97884-9 ISBN10: 0340978848 x Description: It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. After all, his son Christopher was already raising his family there so he would help build the beautiful villa that would soon rise there. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. John was to spend much of the next four years regretting his moment of madness Sometimes comic, at other times infuriating, here father and son tell a story by turns hilarious and revealing about a country that intrigues and infuriates in equal measure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s21mm 230g frontispiece and map ISBN13: 9780719566912 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6691-2 ISBN10: 0719566916 x Description: This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe. Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta - is one that maintains perhaps a stronger relationship with the ancient past than with the present. Myth becomes history, and vice versa. Leigh Fermor's hallmark descriptive writing and capture of unexpected detail have made this book, first published in 1958, a classic - together with its Northern Greece counterpart, Roumeli.
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 Jul 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h197mm x w130mm x s18mm 178g frontispiece and map ISBN13: 9780719566929 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6692-9 ISBN10: 0719566924 x Description: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani compellingly revealed a hidden world of Southern Greece and its past. Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds, the monasteries of Meteora and the villages of Krakora, among itinerant pedlars and beggars, and even tracks down at Missolonghi a pair of Byron's slippers. Roumeli is not on modern maps: it is the ancient name for the lands from the Bosphorus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth. But it is the perfect, evocative name for the Greece that Fermor captures in writing that carries throughout his trademark vividness of description. But what is more, the pictures of people, traditions and landscapes that he creates on the page are imbued with an intimate understanding of Greece and its history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
04 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s17mm 178g ISBN13: 9781444796605 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-9660-5 ISBN10: 1444796607 x Description: A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author of A Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping of General Kriepe, has been published. One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe's car, drove through twenty-two German checkpoints, then succeeded in hiding from the German army before finally being picked up on a beach in the south of the island and transported to safety in Egypt on 14 May. Abducting a General is Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnap, published for the first time. Written in his inimitable prose, and introduced by acclaimed Special Operations Executive historian Roderick Bailey, it is a glorious first-hand account of one of the great adventures of the Second World War. Also included in this book are Leigh Fermor's intelligence reports, sent from caves deep within Crete yet still retaining his remarkable prose skills, which bring the immediacy of SOE operations vividly alive, as well as the peril which the SOE and Resistance were operating under; and a guide to the journey that Kreipe was taken on, as seen in the 1957 film Ill Met by Moonlight starring Dirk Bogarde, from the abandonment of his car to the embarkation site so that the modern visitor can relive this extraordinary event. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Greek for Love: Life, Love and Loss in Corfu James Chatto (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
29 Jun 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w133mm x s21mm 224g ISBN13: 9780719568626 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6862-6 ISBN10: 0719568625 x Description: The two-line ad in the Sunday Times advertising Villa Parginos in Corfu conjured an image of long afternoons drinking wine on a marble patio shaded by a grape arbour, looking out over an impossibly blue Greek sea. Instead James Chatto and his wife Wendy got a little pink bungalow with linoleum, a buzzing fluorescent light and a patio separated from the village's main street by a wire fence. Yet Corfu delivered so much more than their wildest fantasy had suggested. There was the intoxicating warmth of the sun, walks along sage-bordered byways, and swimming naked off an idyllic beach. There were olive trees that dropped their fruit into nets, as well as fresh apricots, grilled sardines, marinated lamb and long evenings of storytelling at the local taverna. The couple arrived as young tourists, new to each other and in love, and were captivated by the way the islanders embraced them. It was their deep connection to Corfu and its people that later sustained them through the darkest tragedy, just as it had carried them into the most wonderful love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege, 1940-1943 James Holland (Author) Series:
Cassell Military Paperbacks
Edition:
Imprint:
Cassell military
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Apr 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 388g 84, 9 maps ISBN13: 9780304366545 ISBN13: 978-0-304-36654-5 ISBN10: 0304366544 x Description: The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would be able to march unchecked into Egypt, Suez and the Middle East. For the Allies this would have been catastrophic. As Churchill said, Malta had to be held 'at all costs'. FORTRESS MALTA follows the story through the eyes of those who were there: young men such as twenty-year-old fighter pilot Raoul Daddo-Langlois, anti-aircraft gunner Ken Griffiths, American Art Roscoe and submariner Tubby Crawford - who served on the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War; cabaret dancer-turned RAF plotter Christina Ratcliffe, and her lover, the brilliant and irrepressible reconnaissance pilot, Adrian Warburton. Their stories and others provide extraordinary first-hand accounts of heroism, resilience, love, and loss, highlighting one of the most remarkable stories of World War II. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield Paul Carter (Author) Series:
Edition:
2nd Revised edition
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w130mm x s22mm 258g Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.) ISBN13: 9781857885637 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-563-7 ISBN10: 1857885635
x Description: The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another glorious day in the oilfield for Paul Carter! He's stuck in the middle of the Russian sea on a rig staffed by a crew from Azerbaijan. The choppers are older than him and can only fly by line of sight, turning back regularly due to the weather which gets particuarly interesting when they are past the point of no return with half there fuel gone and they are committed to finding the rig in a fog that's thicker than a Big Brother housemate. The closest thing to a hotel for miles around is the Asylum, a former soviet mental institution that now houses offshore personnel en-route to the rig, where his room mates are Vodka Bob - who drinks Guinness for breakfast when he's not on the rig - Sick Boy, who snores like a pit bull being hot-waxed and Sealbasher. In his inimitable style Paul Carter regales us with his colourful adventures from the front line of thee oil industry and the far side of civilization! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moscow: A Traveller's Reader Laurence Kelly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Robinson
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h197mm x w134mm x s24mm 288g 8 pp plate section ISBN13: 9781472137142 ISBN13: 978-1-4721-3714-2 ISBN10: 1472137140 x Description: Founded in 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations - to the Khans, the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed, it seemed that two more were built. In this evocative and fascinating anthology, Moscow's turbulent growth is recorded through the voices of visitors and residents: Peter the Great's bloody reprisals after the revolt of the streltsy in 1698; a visit to the city's brothels by medical students in the 1890s; Kutuzov abandoning Moscow to Napoleon in 1812, and Napoleon's ignominious retreat from the burning city; Pushkin railing against the mindlessness of 1830 society; the flowering of literary greatness in the ninenteenth century and of the Moscow Art Theatre in the twentieth; and the dazzling profusion of jewels in the Treasury of the Kremlin. These and many other milestones in over seven hundred years of history are brought vividly to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 784pp h237mm x w166mm x s56mm 1210g 3 maps, 4x8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9780297852667 ISBN13: 978-0-297-85266-7 ISBN10: 0297852663 x Description: The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a warruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin. To rule Russia was both imperial-sacred mission and poisoned chalice: six tsars were murdered and all the Romanovs lived under constant threat to their lives. Peter the Great tortured his own son to death while making Russia an empire, and dominated his court with a dining club notable for compulsory drunkenness, naked dwarfs and fancy dress. Catherine the Great overthrew her own husband - who was murdered soon afterwards - loved her young male favourites, conquered Ukraine and fascinated Europe. Paul was strangled by courtiers backed by his own son, Alexander I, who faced Napoleon's invasion and the burning of Moscow, then went on to take Paris. Alexander II liberated the serfs, survived five assassination attempts, and wrote perhaps the most explicit love letters ever written by a ruler. THE ROMANOVS climaxes with a fresh, unforgettable portrayal of Nicholas and Alexandra, the rise and murder of Rasputin, war and revolution - and the harrowing massacre of the entire family. Written with dazzling literary flair, drawing on new archival research, THE ROMANOVS is at once an enthralling story of triumph and tragedy, love and death, a universal study of power, and an essential portrait of the empire that still defines Russia today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad Charles Allen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
18 Jan 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w134mm x s27mm 256g Section: 16, b/w ISBN13: 9780349118796 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11879-6 ISBN10: 0349118795 x Description: The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme Islamist fundamentalists, set out to restore purity to their faith by declaring violent jihad on all who opposed them. Their history has long been forgotten and yet their vicious brand of political ideology lives on. The Wahhabi deeply influenced not only the formation of modern Saudi Arabia, but Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Their teachings educate orphan boys in Afghanistan and press rifles into their hands, for the sake of jihad. The parallels between this pivotal terrorist network and our post-9/11 political climate are staggering. Charles Allen sheds lights on the historical roots of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous nineteenth-century theology lives on today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West Zachary Karabell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w131mm x s24mm 228g 16 pp b/w ISBN13: 9780719567551 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6755-1 ISBN10: 0719567556 x Description: We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply one of animosity and competition, but has also comprised long periods of cooperation and coexistence. Through a rich tapestry of stories and a compelling cast of characters, People of the Book uncovers known history, and forgotten history, as Karabell takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through the Arab and Ottoman empires, the Crusades and the Catholic Reconquista and into the modern era, as he examines the vibrant examples of discord and concord that have existed between these monotheistic faiths. By historical standards, today's fissure between Islam and the West is not exceptional, but because of weapons of mass destruction, that fissure has the potential to undo us more than ever before. This is reason enough to look back and remember that Christians, Jews and Muslims have lived constructively with one another. They have fought and taught each other, and they have learned from one another. Retrieving this forgotten history is a vital ingredient to a more stable, secure world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal Asne Seierstad (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Dec 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 234g 2 maps ISBN13: 9781844081400 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-140-0 ISBN10: 1844081400 x Description: In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent.
An award-winning writer, Seierstad brilliantly details the frustrations and dangers journalists faced trying to uncover the truth behind the all-pervasive propaganda. She also offers a unique portrait of Baghdad and its people, trying to go about their daily business under the constant threat of attack. Seierstad's passionate and erudite book conveys both the drama and the tragedy of her one hundred and one days in a city at war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad: And the Roots of the Sunni-Shia Schism Barnaby Rogerson (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
05 Oct 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w132mm x s29mm 294g ISBN13: 9780349117577 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11757-7 ISBN10: 0349117578 x Description: The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the seventh-century and establish Islam and a new civilization. That the protagonists originated from the small oasis communities of central Arabia gives their adventures, their rivalries, their loves and their achievements an additional vivacity and intimacy. So that on one hand, THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD is a swaggering saga of ambition, immense achievement, self-sacrificing nobility and blood rivalry, while on the other it allows us to understand some of the complexities of our modern world. For within this fifty-year span of conquest and empire-building, Barnaby Rogerson also identifies the seeds of discord that destroyed the unity of Islam, and traces the roots of the schism between Sunni and Shia Muslims to the rivalry of the two individuals who best knew and loved the Prophet: his cousin and son-in-law Ali and his wife Aisha. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean Philip Mansel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
29 Sep 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w131mm x s31mm 335g b&w photos and line drawings ISBN13: 9780719567087 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6708-7 ISBN10: 0719567084 x Description: Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to their decline in the mid twentieth century. Smyrna was burnt; Alexandria Egyptianised; Beirut lacerated by civil war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h146mm x w200mm x s32mm 334g 88, 7 maps ISBN13: 9781842121399 ISBN13: 978-1-84212-139-9 ISBN10: 1842121391
x Description: A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, the Roman and the Persian, and covering the growth of Christianity, the rise and spread of Islam, the waves of invaders from the east, the Mongol hordes of Jengiz Khan, the rise of the Ottoman Turks, and the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds. 'This book is a masterpiece' Sir Anthony Parsons, Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Multiple Identities of the Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Dec 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 176pp h198mm x w130mm x s12mm 145g maps ISBN13: 9780753808740 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-0874-0 ISBN10: 0753808749 x Description: Most of the modern states of the Middle East are of recent origin, yet the region is the birthplace of three religions and many civilizations. Bernard Lewis, one of the world's most respected historians of the Middle East, discusses the countries and frontiers; their religions and communities; language and loyalties to place, and Middle Eastern perceptions of outsiders. He also considers the effect of alien ideas and influences including liberalism, nationalism, fascism, socialism and democracy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 208pp h157mm x w200mm x s19mm 192g 14 ISBN13: 9780753816752 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-1675-2 ISBN10: 075381675X x Description: A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced. For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, and he provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. Some Middle Easterners asked not 'who did this to us?' but 'where did we go wrong?'; while others fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both internal and external - and the results are very much with us today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East Lawrence Freedman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Jul 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 640pp h217mm x w137mm x s35mm 762g ISBN13: 9780753825884 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2588-4 ISBN10: 0753825880 x Description: Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the past 30 years. The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has seen unrelenting intercommunal violence; and the Taliban have got back into Afghanistan. Lawrence Freedman teases out the roots of each engagement over the last thirty years and demonstrates with clarity and scholarship the influence of these conflicts upon each other. The story is complex and often marked by great drama. First, the countries in dispute with America are not themselves natural allies; second, their enmity was not, at first, America's choice. Third, the region's problems cannot all be traced to the Arab-Israeli dispute. Unique in its focus, this book will offer not only new revelations but also remind us of what has been forgotten or has never been put in context. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
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Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 185g maps ISBN13: 9780753817520 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-1752-0 ISBN10: 0753817527 x Description: The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller. President Bush has made it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for Osama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war, a war for Islam against infidels, especially the United States, the greatest power in the world of the infidels. In this book Bernard Lewis shows us where the anger and frustration have come from, and the extent to which almost the entire Muslim world is affected by poverty and tyranny. He looks at the influence of extreme Wahhabist doctrines in the Saudi kingdom, where custodianship of Islam's holy places and the revenues of oil have given worldwide impact to what would otherwise have been an extremist fringe in a marginal country. He looks at American double standards, which have long caused Muslim anger, and tells us the real meaning of 'Islamic fundamentalism', 'jihad' and 'fatwa', and why the peoples of the Middle East are conscious of history in a way most Americans find difficult to understand. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in Hugh Kennedy (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 448pp h217mm x w140mm x s32mm 406g 33, 9 maps ISBN13: 9780753823897 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2389-7 ISBN10: 0753823896
x Description: A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. Whereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and Spain within a generation. They annihilated the thousand-year-old Persian Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople. Within a hundred years of the Prophet's death, Muslim armies destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain, and crossed the Pyrenees to occupy southern France. This is the first popular English language account of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, he offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, battles, treachery and the clash of civilizations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist and Spy Henry Hemming (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h215mm x w137mm x s22mm 402g 1 map ISBN13: 9781857883954 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-395-4 ISBN10: 1857883950 x Description: When Henry Hemming set out in a pick-up truck called Yasmine to make a portrait of the Middle East, he had no idea what he would find or where he would be able to go - he wasn't even sure how he would earn enough money to stay on the road for a year. Henry Hemming's extraordinary journey takes him from the drug-fuelled ski-slopes of Iran via some of the region's secret beaches, palaces, army barracks, police cells, nightclubs, torture chambers, brothels and artists' studios to a Fourth of July party with American GIs in one of Saddam's former palaces. Everywhere he goes his status as artist gets him into places he would not have been allowed otherwise. As the invasion of Iraq intensifies, he realises that to finish his portrait of the region he must go to Baghdad and find the artistic renaissance there that he has heard about. In so doing he will risk his life. Throughout, he meets young people who share their dreams, doubts and passions, revealing a young and unpredictable Middle East that flies beneath the radar of nightly news bulletins. In these meetings, he also begins to understand what he himself represents, be it British spy, Muslim extremist, jihadi, tramp, bohemian, street-cleaner, Baghdadi, or, from time to time, artist. Misadventure in the Middle East offers a unique, evocative and highly original account of his journey. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East Bernard Lewis (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 May 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 560pp h198mm x w131mm x s28mm 396g ISBN13: 9780753818718 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-1871-8 ISBN10: 075381871X x Description: A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE CRISIS OF ISLAM, Islam's calamitous and bitter decline. This book collects together his most interesting and significant essays, papers, reviews and lectures. They range from historical subjects such as religion and politics in Islam and Judaism, the culture and people of Iran, the great mosques of Istanbul, Middle Eastern food and feasts, the Mughals and the Ottomans, the rise and fall of British power in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam and racism - to current history such as the significance of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Includes discussion of the problems of Western historians dealing with the Islamic world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Time to Keep Silence Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w138mm x s8mm 76g Illustrations ISBN13: 9780719555275 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-5527-5 ISBN10: 0719555272 x Description: From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Istanbul: A Traveller's Reader Laurence Kelly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Robinson
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w134mm x s29mm 370g 2 x 8pp plate sections ISBN13: 9781472137166 ISBN13: 978-1-4721-3716-6 ISBN10: 1472137167 x Description: Istanbul, A Traveller's Reader is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that followed its founding by Constantine the Great, Istanbul became a city of fabled riches; after falling to the Turks in 1453, its glories continued, maintained by the strength and wealth of the Ottomans. Drawing on diaries, letters, biographies, travelogues and poems from the sixth century AD onwards, this evocative anthology recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople. It provides vivid eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor; the funeral of a sultan; the triumphal entry of Mehmet the Conqueror; the building of the Suleymaniye, the most magnificent of the city's moques; and the death of Ataturk in 1938. It also describes the rampant sexual exploits of the Byzantine empress-to-be Theodora; the public execution of a Turkish wife and her young, Christian lover; the near execution of an envoy given the unenviable task of transporting a large organ from England to Constantinople in 1599, a gift from Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III, who was caught admiring the sultan's personal harem; and the unfortunate Frenchman caught drinking wine and eating a pork sausage while sketching in Hagia Sophia in the 1680s. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ataturk Andrew Mango (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
16 Feb 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 688pp h199mm x w133mm x s46mm 480g 16pp illustrations ISBN13: 9780719565922 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6592-2 ISBN10: 0719565928 x Description: This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He imposed coherence, order and mordernity and in the process, created his own legend and his own cult.
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The Turks Today: Turkey after Ataturk Andrew Mango (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
11 Apr 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w130mm x s20mm 218g 1 map ISBN13: 9780719565953 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6595-3 ISBN10: 0719565952 x Description: Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of modernisation. He was determined that his country should be accepted as a member of the family of civilised nations. Today Turkey is a rapidly developing country, an emergent market and a medium-sized regional power with the second strongest army in NATO. It is an open country which attracts millions of tourists, thousands of foreign businessmen and hundreds of researchers. They enjoy Turkish hospitality and experience its rich landscape and history, but many find it hard to form an overall picture of the country. In this sequel to his acclaimed biography of Ataturk, Andrew Mango provides such an overall portrait, tracing the republic's development since the death of its founder and bringing to life the Turkish people and their vibrant society. The Turks Today interprets the latest academic research for a broader audience, making this highly readable book the authoritative work on modern Turkey. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 Philip Mansel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
19 Oct 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 560pp h197mm x w130mm x s36mm 365g 16pp b/w integrated onto text paper ISBN13: 9780719568800 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6880-0 ISBN10: 0719568803 x Description: Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the centre of the dramatic and often depraved story of an extraordinary dynasty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation Baron Patrick Balfour Kinross (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 560pp h234mm x w157mm x s42mm 754g 18, 6 maps ISBN13: 9781842125991 ISBN13: 978-1-84212-599-1 ISBN10: 1842125990 x Description: The definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War came the emergence of new nations, chief among them Turkey itself. It was the creation of one man, the soldier-statesman Mustafa Kemal, who dragged his country from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, and in defeating Western imperialists inspired 'the cause of the East'. Lord Kinross writes of the intrigues of empires, the brutalities of civil war, personal courage - showing us Ataturk, the
incarnation of glory - as well as of Kemal's youthful ambition, and his problems with his wife. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Forbidden Face Latifa (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w131mm x s13mm 160g maps ISBN13: 9781860499616 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-961-6 ISBN10: 1860499619 x Description: Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. Earlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
08 Dec 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h203mm x w166mm x s19mm 200g port. ISBN13: 9781848545564 ISBN13: 978-1-84854-556-4 ISBN10: 1848545568 x Description: When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and security. Desperate to help her family and support her five brothers and sisters at home, Kamila began sewing cothes in her living room. Little did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dressmaking business that would create jobs and hope for one hundred neighbourhood women and would come to mean the difference between starvation and survival for hundreds of families like her own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jerusalem: The Biography Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 768pp h161mm x w199mm x s49mm 615g Illustrations (some col.), maps ISBN13: 9781780220253 ISBN13: 978-1-78022-025-3 ISBN10: 1780220251 x Description: The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of
civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Playing Cards in Cairo: Mint Tea, Tarneeb and Tales of the City Hugh Miles (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Feb 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h196mm x w126mm x s18mm 210g ISBN13: 9780349119809 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11980-9 ISBN10: 0349119805 x Description: PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment. Hugh Miles lives in Cairo and is engaged to an Egyptian woman. Twice a week he plays cards with a small group of Arab, Muslim women and through this medium he explores their lives in modern Cairo, the greatest of Arab cities. It is a secretive, romantic, often deprived but always soulful existence for the women as they struggle with abusive husbands and philandering boyfriends. The book is a window onto a city - and a way of life - which is at a crucial juncture in its history. Hugh Miles, who knows the Arab world intimately, is the perfect guide. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River Robert Twigger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 600pp h198mm x w135mm x s28mm 370g illustrations ISBN13: 9781780220932 ISBN13: 978-1-78022-093-2 ISBN10: 1780220936 x Description: A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES. So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, award-winning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful and dramatic stories - truly a Nile red in tooth and claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human and pre-human history, and an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour and violence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed Gavin Menzies (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h197mm x w137mm x s28mm 336g ISBN13: 9780753828854 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2885-4 ISBN10: 0753828855 x Description: The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. After a chance conversation in Egypt in 2008, bestselling historian Gavin Menzies launched himself on a quest that would reveal the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis and her destruction. Through an examination of documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, artefacts and DNA evidence, Menzies slowly and painstakingly reveals a trading empire that spanned from the Great Lakes in North America to Kerala in India. And in doing so finally explains the incredible reality behind the legendary civilisation described by Plato and its disappearance. Reading like a real-life Indiana Jones story as ex-Royal Navy submarine captain Menzies travels round the world in pursuit of his goal, this is epic, iconoclastic popular history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Out of Iran: One Woman's Escape from the Ayatollahs Sousan Azadi (Author) Angela Ferrante (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Apr 1988
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w127mm x s21mm 214g map ISBN13: 9780751509106 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-0910-6 ISBN10: 0751509108 x Description: Born into a wealthy, westernised elite of the Shah's Iran, Sousan Azadi grew up in luxury. In her privileged circles the thunder of approaching revolution was easy to ignore. Then the Shah fell and in the terrifying new fundamentalist regime of Ayatollah Khomeini Sousan and her friends were branded taghouti, devil's followers. They were hunted, their children brainwashed, their property confiscated. Alone with her son after the death of her husband, Sousan became an easy target. She was flung into jail, where she witnessed terrible suffering inflicted in the name of 'immodest behaviour' and 'indecency.' Only when she caught the eye of a Mullah, who clearly expected sexual favours in return, did she escape. But real freedom still lay beyond the snow-capped Zagros mountains, in Turkey- a hazardous route for a woman and child to take. OUT OF IRAN grips and involves the reader as it recounts one woman's courageous struggle for survival in fanatical war-torn Iran. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside a Torture Jail Marina Nemat (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
15 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 288pp h177mm x w116mm x s19mm 156g 1 x 8pp black & white ISBN13: 9780719522390 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-2239-0 ISBN10: 0719522390 x Description: Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina was arrested late one
evening. She was taken to the notorious prison, Evin, where interrogation and torture were part of the daily routine. Aged sixteen, she was sentenced to death. Her prison guard snatched her from the firing squad bullets but exacted a shocking price in return - marriage to him and conversion to Islam. Marina lived out her prison days as his secret bride, spending nights with him in a separate cell. Marina struggled to reconcile her hatred towards Ali and her feelings of physical repulsion with the fact that he had saved her life. When Ali was murdered by his enemies from Evin, and saved Marina's life for a second time, her feelings were complicated even further. At last she was able to return home, to her family and her past life, but silence surrounded her time as a political prisoner and the regime kept her under constant surveillance. Marina's world had been changed forever and she questions whether she will ever escape Iran and its regime or be free of her memories of Evin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tehran, Lipstick and Loopholes Nahal Tajadod (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h195mm x w128mm x s17mm 180g ISBN13: 9781844085149 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-514-9 ISBN10: 1844085147 x Description: A wry and humorous account of Nahal Tajadod's quest to get her Iranian passport renewed. She embarks on a bizarre and circuitous journey, meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way: two photographers who specialise in Islamic portraits, a forensic surgeon who trades in human organs and a grandmother who offers a live chicken to an implacable official. TEHRAN, LIPSTICK AND LOOPHOLES is a fascinating look at the constraints and contradictions of contemporary life in Tehran from the author's unique standpoint of being both a native of Iran and a foreigner. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Farangi Girl: Growing Up in Iran: a Daughter's Story Ashley Dartnell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Two Roads
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
16 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h196mm x w129mm x s28mm 306g B&W throughout ISBN13: 9781444714715 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-1471-5 ISBN10: 1444714716 x Description: Ashley Dartnell's mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past and upgrade to a more romantic and exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old and living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich and privileged. But somehow it didn't all add up to a fairytale. There were bankruptcies and prisons, betrayals and lovers, lies and evasions. And throughout it all, Ashley's passionate and strong-willed mother, Genie. Stories of mothers and daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Bad Blood. Farangi Girl deserves to be in their company. It's an honest and endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return). Against this extraordinary background, Ashley's journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most and this portrait of a bewitching and endlessly inventive mother is surprising and deeply moving. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq Mark Urban (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h157mm x w200mm x s22mm 232g Section: 16, colour photos ISBN13: 9780349123554 ISBN13: 978-0-349-12355-4 ISBN10: 0349123551
x Description: The book the MoD doesn't want you to read' Daily Mail Soon after British and American forces invaded Iraq they faced an insurgency that was almost impossible to understand, let alone reverse. Facing defeat, the Coalition waged a hidden war within a war. Major-General Stan McChrystal devised a campaign fusing special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology with the aim of taking down the enemy faster than it could regenerate. Guided by intelligence, a small British special forces team met the car bombers' fire with fire and accounted for thousands of insurgents. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man David Strahan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h197mm x w131mm x s20mm 212g ISBN13: 9780719564246 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6424-6 ISBN10: 0719564247 x Description: This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and more urgent than climate change. World leaders know it, so why aren't they telling? The last oil shock is the secret behind the crises in Iraq and Iran, the reason your gas bill is going through the roof, the basis of a secret deal cooked up in Texas between George Bush and Tony Blair, the cause of an imminent and unprecedented economic collapse, and the reason you may soon be kissing your car keys and boarding pass goodbye. David Strahan explains how we reached this critical state, how the silence of governments, oil companies and environmentalists conspires to keep the public in the dark, what it means for energy policy, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family from the ravages of the last oil shock. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1967 Tom Segev (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 May 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 832pp h197mm x w134mm x s43mm 586g Section: 16, b/w ISBN13: 9780349115955 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11595-5 ISBN10: 0349115958 x Description: 1967 did not mark the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it was a year that changed the course of history. When Egypt's President Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli navigation, it triggered a conflict between Israel and the armies of Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Within six days the Israelis had occupied territories three times wider than their own, populated by over a million Palestinian Arabs. Israel suddenly became something of a colonial empire, more Goliath than David. The war granted political legitimacy to Menachem Begin's right-wing Herut party, and Arab terrorism paved the way for Israel's secret service to become a major factor in the country's power structure. 1967 will not be a military history, nor will it focus mainly on political developments. The year 1967 dramatically altered the lives of millions of individuals and this book will focus on the personal stories from both sides of the conflict. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Future Tense: A Vision for Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture Jonathan Sacks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 209g n/a ISBN13: 9780340979853 ISBN13: 978-0-340-97985-3 ISBN10: 0340979852 x Description: Historically, Jews have thought of themselves in terms of the biblical phrase, 'The people that dwells alone.' In the current global environment, this is dangerous. It leads to the isolation of Jews, Judaism and Israel. Too much contemporary Jewish writing is self-referential: Jews talking to Jews, preaching to the converted. Yet Jews cannot cure anti-Semitism alone. We need to persuade Jews and non-Jews alike that Jews, Judaism and Israel have something unique to contribute to the future.FUTURE TENSE does this. It moves beyond the 'they hate us' school of Jewish thought to provide an overarching vision for the future of Judaism, Jewish life and Israel for the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate Tom Segev (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: Hebrew Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 624pp h197mm x w127mm x s38mm 460g Section: 16, B&W ISBN13: 9780349112862 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11286-2 ISBN10: 034911286X x Description: Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century. When they arrived the country lay in a Levantine nirvana; by the time they left it had become the arena for one of the century's major international conflicts. Among the personalities who shape this narrative are Lawrence of Arabia, Winston Churchill, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, King Feisal, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben Gurion. One momentous consequence of these 30 years was that the Jewish population increased by a factor of ten. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rabbi's Daughter: A True Story of Sex, Drugs and Orthodoxy Reva Mann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
03 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w130mm x s23mm 238g ISBN13: 9780340943670 ISBN13: 978-0-340-94367-0 ISBN10: 034094367X x Description: Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself. Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief Rabbi of Israel and daughter of a highly respected London Rabbi, she rebelled strongly and so began a desperate search to discover who she was. In a whirlwind of sex and drugs, Reva strove to leave her strict family life behind her and find her own path. When, years later, Reva decides she wants to return to her Jewish faith, she leaves London and enters a woman's yeshiva in Jerusalem. Driven by a strong yearning to return to a higher level of spirituality, she is determined to
find a strictly orthodox holy man to marry and have children. So Reva begins a new life, wanting to suppress her former desires and needs, and to find her way to God. In this honest and often shocking memoir, Reva presents to us the secret world of ultra Orthodox Judaism. Fascinating insights into modern day matchmakers, ritual baths, sexual codes of conduct and Jewish practice are depicted, and Revas journey is brought to life in stunning detail. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Married to a Bedouin Marguerite Van Geldermalsen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
05 Nov 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h157mm x w199mm x s20mm 230g Section: 8, colour photos ISBN13: 9781844082209 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-220-9 ISBN10: 1844082202 x Description: '"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancient cave and learning to love the regular tasks of baking shrak bread on an open fire and collecting water from the spring. And as Marguerite feels herself becoming part of the Bedouin community, she is thankful for the twist in fate that has led her to this contented life. Marguerite's light-hearted and guileless observations of the people she comes to love are as heart-warming as they are valuable, charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Diamond in the Desert: Behind the Scenes in the World's Richest City Jo Tatchell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sceptre
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
18 Feb 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h200mm x w130mm x s19mm 244g ISBN13: 9780340953402 ISBN13: 978-0-340-95340-2 ISBN10: 0340953403 x Description: Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn. In this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate's dramatic development and the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people and their desert culture. And as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive and controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East and West. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Promise to Nadia: A True Story of a British Slave in the Yemen Zana Muhsen (Author) Andrew Crofts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Sphere
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
07 Oct 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h155mm x w200mm x s17mm 164g ISBN13: 9780751543698 ISBN13: 978-0-7515-4369-8 ISBN10: 0751543691 x
Description: Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her internationally bestselling book SOLD, Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could to obtain their freedom as well. A PROMISE TO NADIA tells the extraordinary story of those ten years; of the family's lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities; of the refusal of their own government in London to help; and of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organisation specialising in the recovery of abducted children. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
13 Dec 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w130mm x s19mm 230g ill ISBN13: 9780719597404 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-9740-4 ISBN10: 0719597404 x Description: Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia. For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden 'precisely the most repulsive corner of the world'. Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Around India in 80 Trains Monisha Rajesh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
06 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781857886443 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-644-3 ISBN10: 1857886445 This Product Replaces: 9781857885958 x Description: In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths. Two decades on, she turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains, covering 40,000km - the circumference of the Earth. She hopes that 80 train journeys up, down and across India will lift the veil on a country that has become a stranger to her. Along the way, Monisha discovers that the Indian Railways - featuring luxury trains, toy trains, Mumbai's infamous commuter trains, and even a hospital on wheels - have more than a few stories to tell, not to mention a colourful cast of characters. And with a selfconfessed 'militant devout atheist' in tow, her personal journey around a country built on religion isn't quite what she bargained for... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Never Mind the Bullocks: One Girl's 10,000km Adventure Around India in the World's Cheapest Car Vanessa Able (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h215mm x w136mm x s22mm 352g 1 B&W illustration ISBN13: 9781857886122 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-612-2 ISBN10: 1857886127 x Description: **A Scotsman Non-Fiction Book of the Year** Vanessa Able wanted a truly independent Indian adventure, but nothing prepared her for the noise, chaos and terror of driving 10,000 km around the subcontinent or for finding the love of her life. Behind the wheel of a yellow Tata Nano (the world s cheapest car), Vanessa steers the reader through a hilarious, high-octane adventure. Taking any help she can get from loopy spiritual gurus to professional driving instructors, and even a divine insurance policy she drives her way around an alien road network through India s white-knuckle traffic where vehicle size, full-beam lights and roads that simply disappear seem to trump all common sense. Narrowly escaping death by truck, she learns the real rules of the road, the vehicle pecking order, what to do when the SH11T hits the fan and to appreciate the true kings of the dusty tarmac: the bullocks. En route, she falls hopelessly in love with a mathematician named Thor who might be, ironically, the worst driver she s ever met. Their romance does not start promisingly the first rendezvous is interrupted by that universal passion-killer, Delhi belly but will they survive unexpected sheep-jams, a car full of elephant slime, and the endless cacophony of horns? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys Through Modern India Sally Howard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
24 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 224pp h213mm x w135mm x s17mm 288g illustrations, map ISBN13: 9781857885897 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-589-7 ISBN10: 1857885899 x Description: Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj; from a Gujurati retirement home for gay men and eunuchs to a busy sex clinic in Chennai; from patriarchs to matriarchs; GIGs (Good Indian Girls), BIGs (Bad Indian Girls) and the fleshpots of Bombay, she accompanied by feisty Delhi girl Dimple lifts the bed sheets on India's sexual revolution. And it's a revolution that's full of fascinating surprises and contrasts; for India the land that gave us that exuberant guide to sexual pleasure, the Kama Sutra is also the land where women remain cloistered in purdah while teenage girls check out porn online; where families bow down to a conjoined phallus and vagina, the Shivaling, while couples fear to hold hands in public; and where the loveless arranged marriage is still the norm. Colourful, compelling, confounding, The Kama Sutra Diaries reveal what India has to tell us about modern-day love, sex and sexuality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h203mm x w151mm x s18mm 200g 8pp black and white ISBN13: 9780719564529 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6452-9 ISBN10: 0719564522
x Description: This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim's footsteps across Kipling's India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk's quest for Kim and a host of other shadowy figures. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Suketu Mehta (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Review
Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 608pp h197mm x w130mm x s27mm 286g 1 map ISBN13: 9780747259695 ISBN13: 978-0-7472-5969-5 ISBN10: 0747259690 x Description: An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it' Sunday Times Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu Mehta's own history of growing up in Bombay and returning to live there after a 21-year absence, and in looking through the eyes of his found the city within himself. Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people - a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Author) Martin Yeoman (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 260g line drawings and maps ISBN13: 9780719565878 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6587-8 ISBN10: 0719565871 x Description: All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey -- the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj. Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Web of Light Diana Cooper (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Paperback
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w128mm x s22mm 253g n/a ISBN13: 9780340830758 ISBN13: 978-0-340-83075-8 ISBN10: 0340830751 x Description: Diana Cooper's first novel THE SILENT STONES has already proved to be a hugely popular success, and her new title continues the winning formula of weaving enlightening spiritual wisdom into a fast-paced and compelling adventure story. Set in Africa, this latest novel features an exciting quest to protect a sacred lion cub whose birth will heal the tear in the precious Web of Light surrounding the Earth. Throughout the story Diana Cooper unfolds the mystical secrets of the Sphinx, Pyramids and Bermuda Triangle, reveals the true purpose of our most sacred animals, as well as exploring the connections between our planet and others, and the pure wisdom of Atlantis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Half the Sky: How to Change the World Nicholas D. Kristof (Author) Sheryl WuDunn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm ISBN13: 9780349009681 ISBN13: 978-0-349-00968-1 ISBN10: 0349009686 x Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth, it was totalitarianism. In the twenty-first, Kristof and WuDunn demonstrate, it will be the struggle for gender equality in the developing world. Fierce, moral, pragmatic, full of amazing stories of courage and inspiration, HALF THE SKY is essential reading for every global citizen. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Rick Atkinson (Author) Series:
Liberation Trilogy 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 704pp h198mm x w129mm x s33mm 494g Section: 32, b/w ISBN13: 9780349116365 ISBN13: 978-0-349-11636-5 ISBN10: 0349116369 x Description: The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the British and American armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery and Rommel.
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Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 Martin Windrow (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 752pp h232mm x w153mm x s47mm 1055g illustrations ISBN13: 9780753828564 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2856-4 ISBN10: 0753828561 x Description: The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara. Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all nationalities enlisting under pseudonyms to fight and die under the desert sun. As with all cliches, the reality is far richer and more surprising than this. In this book Martin Windrow describes desert battles and famous last stands in gripping detail - but he also shows exactly what the Foreign Legion were doing in North Africa in the first place. He explains how French colonial methods there actually had their roots in the jungles of Vietnam, and how the political pressures that kept the empire expanding can be traced to battles on the streets of Paris itself. His description of the Berber tribesmen of Morocco also reveals some disturbing modern parallels: the formidable guerrillas of the 1920s were inspired by an Islamic fundamentalist who was adept at using the world's media to further his cause. Martin Windrow's previous book THE LAST VALLEY received fabulous reviews across the English-speaking world. This unique book, which is the first to examine the 'golden age' of the Foreign Legion has followed suit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sands of Death: An Epic Tale of Massacre and Survival in the Sahara Michael Asher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
06 Mar 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h196mm x w131mm x s20mm 290g 1 maps ISBN13: 9780753823583 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-2358-3 ISBN10: 0753823586 x Description: Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara In December 1880 a French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway that would stretch from their colony in Algeria right across the Sahara desert to reach their territories in West Africa. 'Paris to Timbuctoo in Six Days' was the slogan. It would do for the French colonies what the American railways were doing in the western states at the same time. No native opposition was expected. As one of the expedition's organizers said, 'A hundred uncivilized tribesmen armed with old-fashioned spears: what is that against the might of France?' Four months later, a handful of emaciated survivors staggered into a remote outpost on the edge of the desert. Although armed with modern rifles, the column had been lured to destruction by the self-styled 'lords of the desert', the Tuareg. At this, the highpoint of European colonialism in Africa, this story of treachery, massacre, torture and even cannibalism made headlines around the world. Attacked by the Tuareg in their remote heartland, the survivors had been pursued for weeks on end, driven into the waterless desert to die. The desperate lengths they resorted to shocked Victorian sensibilities. They do not make easy reading now. This grisly story, told by our greatest living desert explorer reveals what happened when the conceit of western colonialism met the equally arrogant Tuareg, who had dominated this remote region, and anyone trying to cross it, for a thousand years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sahara Michael Palin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
18 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 190g 180 ISBN13: 9780753817391 ISBN13: 978-0-7538-1739-1 ISBN10: 075381739X x Description: Michael Palin's superb No. 1 bestseller about his incredible voyage across the Sahara. Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean, but this was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert. As the journey unfolds, the Sahara reveals not the emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes and a long history of commerce and conquest stretching from the time of the ancient Egyptians to the oil-rich Islamic republics of today. On his way, he encounters dangers such as camel stew, being run over by the Paris-Dakar rally and Dakar nightlife, as well as returning to the original spot where THE LIFE OF BRIAN was filmed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Desert Children Waris Dirie (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h196mm x w124mm x s18mm 175g ISBN13: 9781844082513 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-251-3 ISBN10: 1844082512 x Description: Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence Donovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, DESERT FLOWER. In DESERT DAWN she wrote about becoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genital mutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. DESERT CHILDREN tells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn have investigated the practice of FGM in Europe - they estimate that up to 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. At the moment, France is the only European country in which offenders are convicted and no European country officially recognises the threat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. Here are the voices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by Waris Dirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us to action. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Desert Flower Waris Dirie (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
18 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h197mm x w129mm x s17mm 220g Section: 8, B&W ISBN13: 9781860497582 ISBN13: 978-1-86049-758-2 ISBN10: 1860497586 x Description: Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and moving on with her family to the next grazing spot - until it came her turn to meet the old woman who administered the ancient custom imposed on most Somalian girls: circumcision. Waris suffered this torture when she was just five years old. Then, aged 12, when her father attempted to arrange a marriage with a 60 year old stranger in exchange for five camels - she took flight. After an extraordinary escape through the dangerous desert she made her way to London and worked as a maid for the Somalian ambassador until that family
returned home. Penniless and speaking little English, she became a janitor in McDonalds where she was famously discovered by a fashion photographer. Her story is a truly inspirational and extraordinary self-portrait of a remarkable woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Desert Dawn Waris Dirie (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
03 Jun 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w134mm x s16mm 158g Section: 4, colour ISBN13: 9781844080083 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-008-3 ISBN10: 1844080080 x Description: Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at twelve on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage; being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London; and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, the worldwide bestseller, Desert Flower. Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice and no place - the very world that nearly destroyed her also gave her the tools to survive. She traces the roots of her courage, resilience and humour back to her motherland, and most particularly to her mother. Desert Dawn is the story of that return and a testimony to the stubborn fact that you can love something dearly and yet not love all that it represents. Desert Dawn is about coming home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slave Mende Nazer (Author) Damien Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virago Press Ltd
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h197mm x w125mm x s20mm 235g ISBN13: 9781844081165 ISBN13: 978-1-84408-116-5 ISBN10: 1844081168 x Description: Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her village in the remote Nuba mountains of Sudan. They hacked down terrified villagers, raped the women and abducted the children. Mende was them. She was taken and sold to an Arab woman in Khartoum. She was stripped of her name and her freedom. For seven long years she was kept as a domestic slave, an 'abid', without any pay or a single day off. Her food was the leftover scraps and her bed was the floor of the locked-up garden shed. She endured this harsh and lonely existence without knowing whether her family was alive or dead, for seven long years. Passed on by her master, like a parcel, to a relative in London, Mende eventually managed to escape to freedom. Slave is a shocking first-person insight into the modern day slave trade. It is also a fascinating memoir of an African childhood and a moving testimony to a young girl's indomitable spirit in the face of adversity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War Child: A Boy Soldier's Story Emmanuel Jal (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Abacus
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
04 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w130mm x s21mm 212g Section: 8, colour photos ISBN13: 9780349121253 ISBN13: 978-0-349-12125-3 ISBN10: 0349121257 x Description: Emmanuel Jal was seven years old when he became a soldier and went into battle with the rebel army in Sudan's bloody civil war. Believing he was being sent to school, Emmanuel trekked his way to a refugee camp in Ethiopia where he became one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. After nearly five years of fighting, Emmanuel was smuggled into Kenya by Emma McCune, a British aid worker, and finally began to have a childhood
and an education. When Emma died tragically, Emmanuel struggled to find purpose in life but eventually - through the power of prayer and music - he succeeded. From child soldier, to refugee, to rap star, War Child is one boy's incredible story of survival and triumph. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seized!: A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters Max Hardberger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h215mm x w137mm x s23mm 328g ISBN13: 9781857885569 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-556-9 ISBN10: 1857885562 x Description: Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When I Fell from the Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival Juliane Koepcke (Author) Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
19 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 266pp h215mm x w137mm x s19mm 276g B&W illustrations ISBN13: 9781857885835 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-583-5 ISBN10: 185788583X x Description: On December 24th 1971, the teenage Juliane boarded the packed flight in Peru to meet her father for Christmas. She and her mother fought to get some of the last seats available and felt thankful to have made the flight. The LANSA airplane flew into a heavy thunderstorm and went down in dense Amazon jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. She fell two miles from the sky, still strapped to her plane seat, into the jungle. She was the sole survivor among the 92 passengers, which included her mother, and Juliane s unexplainable survival has been called a modern-day miracle. With incredible courage, instinct and ingenuity, she crawled and walked alone for eleven days in the green hell of the Amazon. She survived using the skills she d learned in assisting her parents on their research trips into the jungle before coming across a loggers hut, and, with it, safety. Now she tells her fascinating story for the first time and on its 40th anniversary she shares not only the private moments of her survival and rescue but her inspiring life in the wake of the disaster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America Peter Allison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 264pp h215mm x w136mm x s19mm 294g Illustrations ISBN13: 9781857885668 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-566-8 ISBN10: 185788566X x Description: "Plans are usually only good for one thing - laughing at in hindsight. So, armed with rudimentary Spanish, dangerous levels of curiosity and a record of poor judgement, I set off to tackle whatever South America could throw at me." On his nineteenth birthday, Peter Allison flipped a coin. One side would take him to Africa and the other to South America. He recounted his time spent as a safari guide in Africa to much acclaim in Don't Run, Whatever You do and Don't Look Behind You. Sixteen years later he makes his way to Chile, ready to seek out the continent's best, weirdest and wildest adventures - and to chase the elusive jaguar. From learning to walk a puma (or rather be bitten and dragged along by it) in Bolivia, to finding love in Patagonia and hunting naked with the remote Huaorani people in Ecuador, How to Walk a Puma is Peter's fascinating and often hilarious account of misadventures in South America. Ever the gifted storyteller and cultural observer, Allison makes many observations about life in humid climes, the nature of nomadism, and exactly what it is like to be nearly blasted off a mountain by the famous Patagonia wind. His self-deprecating humour is as delightful as his crazy stunts, and his love for animals - even when they bite - is infectious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s26mm 282g one drawing ISBN13: 9780719566844 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6684-4 ISBN10: 0719566843 x Description: In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straighttrunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane and sailing ship, noting in his records of the voyage the minute details of daily life, of the natural surroundings and of the idiosyncratic and distinct civilisations he encountered amongst the Caribbean Islands. From the ghostly Ciboneys and the dying Caribs to the religious eccentricities like the Kingston Pocomaniacs and the Poor Whites in the Islands of the Saints, Patrick Leigh Fermor recreates a vivid world, rich and vigorous with life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three Letters from the Andes Patrick Leigh Fermor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
03 Jan 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 128pp h198mm x w160mm x s9mm 96g map and one or two drawings ISBN13: 9780719566851 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6685-1 ISBN10: 0719566851 x Description: In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima. The expedition was led
by a writer and poet and the party included a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants - the author himself and a botany-loving duke - were complete novices. As the group travelled from Lima into increasingly remote parts of the country, Leigh Fermor captured their experiences in a series of letters to his wife. Whether recounting the thrill of crossing a glacier, the rigours of campsite life under a blanket of snow, their lively encounters with locals or the strangely moving sight of a lone condor circling in the sky, the author vividly conveys the excitement of discovery and the intense uniqueness of the land. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr. China Tim Clissold (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Constable
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
27 May 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w130mm x s22mm 248g map, port. ISBN13: 9781849013079 ISBN13: 978-1-84901-307-9 ISBN10: 1849013071 x Description: The incredible story of a Wall Street banker who went to China with $400,000,000 and learned the hard way how (not) to do business there ...In the early nineties, China finally opened for business and Wall Street wanted in on the act. When the investment bankers arrived from New York with their Harvard MBAs, pinstripes and tasselled loafers, ready to negotiate with the Old Cadres, the stage was set for collision. This is the true story of a tough Wall Street banker who came to China looking for glory. He teamed up with an ex-Red Guard and a Mandarin-speaking Englishman. Together, they raised over $400,000,000 and bought up factories all over China. Only as they watched those millions slide towards the abyss did they start to understand that China really doesn't play by anyone else's rules. Tim Clissold was there at the beginning of China's transformation and he's still there, doing business. In this new edition of his hugely successful book he describes just how much - and how little - has changed in China since his story began. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze Peter Hessler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w130mm x s24mm 300g Maps ISBN13: 9780719564802 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6480-2 ISBN10: 0719564808 x Description: When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the controversial consturction of the Three Gorges Dam have affected even the people of a remote town like Fuling. Poignant, thoughtful and utterly compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a place caught mid-river in time, much like China itself - a country seeking to understand both what it was and what it will one day become. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives Tom Chesshyre (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Pub Date:
27 Nov 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h215mm x w136mm x s22mm 356g ISBN13: 9781857886276 ISBN13: 978-1-85788-627-6 ISBN10: 1857886275 x Description: Away from the five-star hotels and beyond luxury hideaways, Tom Chesshyre travels to see the real, unexplored Maldives, skirting around the archipelago's periphery, staying at simple guesthouses, and using cargo ships and ferries. He discovers that beyond the glossy brochures lies an almost undiscovered country that is brimming with life, yet also a paradise teetering on the brink of trouble. In the Maldives outsiders used to be banned from islands not officially endorsed as tourist resorts, but now a thousand sandy shores can be visited in this remote nation deep in the Indian Ocean the flattest on Earth. This is island-hopping for the twenty-first century, sailing around 600 miles of the most beautiful islands and atolls on Earth, often to communities that have not seen an outsider for decades, ...and gatecrashing the odd posh hotel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s21mm 202g 8pp black and white ISBN13: 9780719564482 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6448-2 ISBN10: 0719564484 x Description: The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 592pp h196mm x w135mm x s38mm 409g 8pp black and white ISBN13: 9780719564475 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6447-5 ISBN10: 0719564476 x Description: For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This classic book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or
native horse-traders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. The violent repercussions of the Great Game are still convulsing Central Asia today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h197mm x w134mm x s29mm 312g 8 pp b/w ISBN13: 9780719564512 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6451-2 ISBN10: 0719564514 x Description: Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret agents and others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h196mm x w130mm x s20mm 194g 8pp black and white ISBN13: 9780719564505 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6450-5 ISBN10: 0719564506 x Description: 'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa Peter Hopkirk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
John Murray General Publishing Division
Pub Date:
27 Mar 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w134mm x s19mm 210g 8pp black and white integrated ISBN13: 9780719564499 ISBN13: 978-0-7195-6449-9 ISBN10: 0719564492
x Description: No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval Buddhist kingdom by inquisitive Western travellers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the race to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. This epic, often harrowing tale, which ends with the Chinese invasion of 1950, draws on a colourful cast of gatecrashers from nine different countries. Among them were adventurous young officers on Great Game missions, explorers and mountaineers, mystics and missionaries. All took their lives in their hands, including three intrepid women. Some were never to return. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________