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Was it the last rush of youth or the desperateness of age, which
coursed two people through a sea quest, a love story and their
tragedies? Or maybe, the unlikely alliance fashioned by feelings of
the heart bolstered their unique life-altering plan; a plan, which
included the breaking away from the disciplines and comforts of
successful corporate careers, and the transformation to an
unconventional lifestyle. Possibly, it was their passion that
compelled them to sail from Terra Firma in search of their destiny,
to do what most people only dream of doing and few ever succeed in
accomplishing. It is the unconventional discoveries and
tribulations of two individuals who sailed a forty-two foot sloop
in excess of four thousand nautical miles and journeyed to seven
different countries. A voyage demarcated by the serendipity of
their togetherness in the remote tropical coves of the out islands
of Belize, and the serenity of secluded paradise in the blue clear
waters of Cuba. The adversities of sailing across the Gulf of
Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the incursion into the incongruous
Mississippi River, of dangerous storms, fires and groundings and
the sufferings and calamities in the mountains and rivers of
Guatemala. It is a story of passions satiated and novelties lost,
and like the collapsed walls of Jericho the tumultuous demise of a
dream.
If Joan Didion was right, and we do tell ourselves stories in order
to live, then a travel story is the best story of them all. And I
had form for escaping in stories... Kate Wills wasn't expecting to
be divorced after less than a year of marriage. She hadn't
anticipated restarting a life that had, for the last 12 years with
her partner, seemed so stable. Luckily, her job as a travel
journalist offered her the perfect opportunity to escape from it
all. But this time, her jet-setting felt different. Kate felt more
alone, particularly against a backdrop of never-ending hen dos,
weddings and baby showers. So she began to search history for
female travellers to inspire her. From a 4th-century nun to a
globe-girdling cyclist, Kate discovers that throughout history,
there have been astonishing women who've broken free from more
burdensome expectations, clearing the path for us to do the same. A
Trip of One's Own is a funny and heartfelt invitation to take that
trip: to Paris, to Whitstable, and maybe down that street you've
always wondered about.
Christmas is a time for family and friends, but will the allure of
the French Riviera be able to work its magic? As a toddler Elodie
Jacques was abandoned by her mother and left in the care of her
French grandmother, Gabriella in Dartmouth, Devon. Now 24 years
old, Elodie struggles to reconcile the deep anger for the mother
she has never since seen. When Gabriella unexpectedly announces she
wants the two of them to spend Christmas and her 70th birthday in
her home town of Juan-les-Pins in the South of France Elodie is
thrilled. Gabriella meanwhile has her own ulterior motives for
wanting to return after 40 years, a daunting homecoming potentially
filled with memories, secrets and recriminations. With
Juan-les-Pins pulsing with lights, decorations and the festive
spirit, Christmas promises to be filled with fun. But when Elodie
learns there is the possibility that her long absent mother may
join them she hides her feelings behind a show of indifference and
animosity. Will there be the reconciliation that Gabriella longs
for - or will the spirit of Christmas fail to work its wonder?
'What isn't to love? You are taken on an incredible journey to the
vibrant French Riviera, with all the colours, lights and traditions
of Christmas beautifully combined with the joy of friendship and
the possibility of new romance... ' Bestselling author Judy Leigh
Working and travelling abroad is now a fact of life for those in
business and European countries are the most common destination.
This guide to seeking employment abroad combines hard facts, soft
information (for example, insights into national character), and
comparative charts.
See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to
Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this
visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower
gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes and writing hideaways of 30
great authors – from Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Orchard House’
where she wrote Little Women and Agatha Christie at Greenway, to
Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House and the Massachusetts home of
Edith Wharton. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned
photography plus archive images, and spanning centuries and
continents, this book visits the homes and gardens that
inspired novelists, poets and playwrights. It shows how outdoor
spaces were important to writers in many different ways and offers
insight into the lives and creative processes of beloved authors.
Writers featured include: Jane Austen at Godmersham and Chawton,
Agatha Christie at Greenway, Beatrix Potter at Hill Top, Roald Dahl
at Gipsy House, Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House, Walter Scott,
Thomas Hardy at Hardy’s Cottage and Max Gate , Robert Burns at
Ellisland, William Wordsworth at Cockermouth and Grasmere, Rudyard
Kipling at Bateman’s, Louisa May Alcott at Orchard House, Emily
Dickinson at The Homestead, Amherst, Beatrix Farrand, Mount Desert
Island, Maine, Elizabeth Lawrence, Winghaven Gardens, F Scott
Fitzgerald in Montgomery, Robert Frost at Derry, Ernest Hemingway
in Florida, Jack London at Beauty Ranch and Wolf House, Henry David
Thoreau at Thoreau Farm & Walden Pond, Mark Twain at Hartford,
Alice Walker in Eatonton, Georgia, Marcel Proust, Illiers Combray,
Georges Sand, Nohant, Nr Chatelroux, Emile Zola, Medan South of
Paris, Herman Hesse, Casa Camuzzi, Lake Lugano, Weimer Group:
Goethe, Christoph Martin Wieland & Schiller, Alessandro
Manzoni, Milan + Lake Como, Tolstoy, Yasnay Polyana Estate, Moscow.
This deeply insightful book sheds new light on some of literature's
greatest works, offers rare glimpses into the lives of these
brilliant minds, and showcases in stunning full colour the gardens
in which these writers spent their time.
Fully updated and revised, this guide details information on 700
public campgrounds in Oregon accessible by car. It's a guide for
everyone from tenters to RVers.
1001 Walking Tips by Paul Besley is a light-hearted and informative
guide to all kinds of walking. This is no standard instruction
manual - it is much more useful than that. This is a huge
collection of small tips to make a real difference to your walking,
whether you're on a leisurely stroll in your local urban area,
exploring a national park, planning a long-distance trail or hiking
in the mountains in winter - this book will help you to make the
most of every walk. The vast range of topics covered includes
navigation, essential kit and clothing, safety, fitness, food,
walking with dogs, how to cope with various weather conditions and
what to do if you get lost. Whether you're a walking novice or an
experienced trekker, Paul's wealth of knowledge and practical
advice will inspire you and help to enrich your time outdoors.
A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African
state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a
family of Tunisian merchants trading with Egypt and what is now
Sudan. Al-Tunisi was raised in Cairo and a graduate of al-Azhar. In
1803, at the age of fourteen, al-Tunisi set off for the Sultanate
of Darfur, where his father had decamped ten years earlier. He
followed the Forty Days Road, was reunited with his father, and
eventually took over the management of the considerable estates
granted to his father by the sultan of Darfur. In Darfur is
al-Tunisi's remarkable account of his ten-year sojourn in this
independent state. In Volume Two al-Tunisi describes the geography
of the region, the customs of Darfur's petty kings, court life and
the clothing of its rulers, marriage customs, eunuchs, illnesses,
food, hunting, animals, currencies, plants, magic, divination, and
dances. In Darfur combines literature, history, ethnography,
linguistics, and travel adventure, and most unusually for its time,
includes fifty-two illustrations, all drawn by the author. In
Darfur is a rare example of an Arab description of Africa on the
eve of Western colonization and vividly evokes a world in which
travel was untrammeled by bureaucracy, borders were fluid, and
startling coincidences appear almost mundane. A bilingual
Arabic-English edition.
The definitive collection of Kansas's odd, wacky, and most offbeat
people, places, and things, for Kansas residents and anyone else
who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
Lace up your boots and sample sixty-two of the finest hiking trails
the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area has to offer. This rugged,
393,000-acre region at the southern margin of the North Cascades
provides breathtaking scenery and a variety of challenges and
elevations. Choose from easy outings along the Skykomish River,
exhilarating summit ascents near Snoqualmie Pass, backcountry treks
around Stevens Pass, and sublime parkland hikes in the Teanaway
River area. Veteran hiker and outdoors writer Jeff Smoot will
introduce you to these and more.
Inside you'll find: up-to-date trail information; accurate
directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails; difficulty
ratings for each hike; optional side trips and overnight hikes;
zero-impact hiking and camping tips.
All the mapping you need to walk the Offa's Dyke Path National
Trail that runs for 177 miles along the English-Welsh border
between Sedbury (near Chepstow) and Prestatyn on the north Wales
Coast. NOTE An accompanying Cicerone guidebook - Offa's Dyke Path -
describes the full route from south to north with lots of other
practical and historical information. The accompanying guidebook
INCLUDES a copy of this map booklet. This booklet of Ordnance
Survey 1:25,000 Explorer maps is conveniently sized for slipping
into a jacket pocket or top of a rucksack. It shows the full and
up-to-date line of the Offa's Dyke Path, along with the relevant
extract from the OS Explorer map legend.
In the autumn of 1910, the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy
secretly left his estate in Yasnaya Polyana in the dark hours of
the night. A few days later, he died in a train station, at the age
of 82. Why did he leave his family, and where was he headed?
Through a detailed study of the diaries and letters written by the
people close to the events, Fumiko Davis investigates the unusual
circumstances leading to Tolstoy's disappearance, and unveils a
touching story about the private life of a man regarded as one of
the greatest writers of all time.
For your best adventures, use the best map. Madeiras favourite map
is now in its 10th edition including the new Palheiro golf
development, goodbye to the abandoned Ponta Pargo golf course,
final sections of the VE3 road, loads of minor road updating
especially in the south west. For hikers we have added several new
highlighted walking routes. Madeira Tour and Trail Map is a large
960mm by 700mm double sided map sheet. Specialist concertina map
folding means the 960mm by 700mm double sided map folds quickly to
its 235mm by 120mm pocket size. This most detailed map of Madeira
includes our Tour and Trail level of detail ranging from major
roads to secondary roads to minor roads to streets and camino rural
narrow country roads, plus dirt roads and walking trails. Altitude
background colouring is designed to clearly show the altitude range
when travelling across the island by car or on foot. 100 metre and
50 metre contours are clearly shown on the map along with a large
number of individual height points and all of the official Trig
points. Tour and Trail attention to detail is legendary as is our
useful symbol range including miradors, picnic areas, petrol
stations, bar restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off
the road safely. You will easily identify springs, caves, sports
grounds, cemetries, churchs, chapels, lighthouses, towers and
forts, camping areas, wind turbines, hotels etc. For adventurers on
foot Tour and Trail Maps are researched and designed by hikers for
use by hikers. Our comprehensive gps ground surveys produce the
best mapping available but the value of this on the ground research
becomes even more important when you leave the tarmac. All of our
DWG walking routes are accurately gps surveyed giving you
confidence in the accuracy of our Tour and Trail Maps. All the
walking routes from Madeira Walks volumes 1 and 2 by Shirley
Whitehead highlighted in Red while other published walking routes
(printed guide books and reliable web publications) are highlighted
in Green. It all adds up to the most useful map of Madeira that you
can buy anywhere. In use maps have a very tough life so you will
appreciate our specialist concertina map fold that allows you to
quickly open the map, and more importantly fold it back up to its
pocket size after use. Paper maps will always suffer from the
repeated unfolding, folding to the section you want to use, and
then refolding.
Discover the answers behind the mysteries of the countryside in all
their fascination and beauty... Ever wondered about the masses of
twigs in bare-branched trees that look like abandoned nests? Seen
fuzzy red balls on roses? A stranded pond on a hilltop? Or even
considered the shaded ways we walk along? One of Britain's
best-known naturalists, John Wright describes and explores fifty of
the natural (and unnatural) puzzles of the countryside that might
confound the ever-curious. He reveals the histories and
practicalities of those that are man-made and the astounding and
intricate lives of the natural wonders around us. From the enormous
to the truly tiny he illuminates the oddities that pepper our
countryside and reveals the many pleasures of spotting and
understanding them. Informative, entertaining and beautifully
illustrated, this is for anyone who has ever gone outside and
wondered what is that?
Explore Exmoor and North Devon on your mountain bike with this
laminated, waterproof Exmoor map. With 10 clearly-marked routes
this easy-to-use map will help you discover the best of Exmoor and
North Devon off road. From sand-dunes, surf beaches and rocky
cliffs of the coast, through wooded hills and green-pastured
valleys to the heather and tawny-grasses of the high moors; for
such a small area Exmoor contains an extraordinary variety of
scenery. Add the pubs and cafes of friendly country towns, and the
fabled Devon cream teas of village tea-shops, all linked by narrow,
high-banked lanes which see little traffic that much of their
surface is covered by moss and grass, and a network of forest
tracks and ancient green lanes and bridleways, and you have one of
the secret jewels of the UK's off-road riding scene. But what you
won't get - with one or two very obvious exceptions - are
bone-juddering gnarly descents, so if you're looking for the "Oh my
God" factor, this isn't the place. Instead, you have a collection
of superbly varied and rideable routes - from the almost flat
circuit of Braunton and the Burrows to the challenging climbs and
long, open descents of some of the inland routes. Outside of
Exmoor's National Park, the Quantock Hills deserve a special
mention. With views out over the waters of the Bristol Channel,
this area of interconnected ridges above steeply wooded combes is
covered with trails that could have been designated for off-road
biking. But when the sun is shining on the great ridge of the
Quantocks from Crowcombe Park Gate towards Beacon Hill, or high up
on Dunkery Beacon in the midst of Exmoor - one thing is for sure -
this is as close to off-road riding heaven as it gets.
Cotswolds Map and Guide of Places to Visit is the ideal guide to
the very best of Cotswolds. From the gorgeous, honey-coloured stone
villages to the dramatic rolling hills The Cotswolds are a visual
feast. Long, winding lanes connect beautiful villages with
excellent pubs and friendly tearooms. This area of outstanding
natural beauty is ideal for a day out, weekend away or destination
holiday. Our Cotswolds Map & Guide presents the Cotswolds'
multiple attractions in an accessible, easy-to-read and follow,
format. It is in the format of a fold-out map and has a detailed
visitor map on one side and visitor information on the other:
Cotswolds Visitor Map An unbelievably detailed map on one side with
lots of additional visitor information The ideal scale for touring
at 1:126,720 (2 miles to 1 inch) Clear and easy-to-follow
cartography also easy to fold and unfold Cotswolds Travel Guide All
the information you need is shown on the reverse side of the map
ensuring you will see the very best of the Cotswolds The best
things to see and do are grouped into the following sections: Main
Centres; Towns Villages of interest; Farm and Countryside
interests; Birds and wildlife; Train and transport interests;
Historic buildings; Gardens; Museums; Art Galleries; Arts and
Crafts; Traditional inns with rooms; Pubs; Coffee, delis and
teas... Carefully selected scenic drives including the distance and
what to see and expect en route Illustrated with full-colour
photographs, our renowned map and guide to the Cotswolds will make
it easy to plan your trip. It really is the 'go-to' guide and map
for the very best of the Cotswolds.
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