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Historic market towns, rolling green hills, secret sandy beaches: welcome to Great BritainWhether you want to visit London's world-class museums, spend time at the seaside or venture into the great outdoors, your DK Eyewitness travel guide ensures you...

This brand new photographic field guide to the birds of southern Africa presents more than 2500 images showing a wide selection of age and sex plumage variations, perched and in-flight birds, and color morphs where relevant, making it the most...

The Lake District is to leisure walking what Vienna is to the waltz, Venice to canalization, Bletchley to code-breaking, Chicago to the blues, and Dublin to the brewing of porter. None of these places invented the related pursuit, but in each the...

A guidebook to the Isle of Skye's Cuillin Ridge Traverse. This 2-volume set is a comprehensive guide to planning and completing this challenging and technical 12km scramble. With a route that includes scrambling sections to Grade 3, technical climbs to...

A woman’s tale of the transformative power of walking Britain’s ancient pilgrim paths ‘Raw, honest, powerful. I couldn't put it down.’ Cerys Matthews On an assignment to walk the most famous pilgrimage in the world – the...

Let Secret Belfast guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Belfast guide book, now in its 2nd edition. Featuring over 20 new locations, our local experts will show you the well-hidden treasures and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746690Author Michael OndaatjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments - brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning...

Suilven covers the spectacular group of remote northerly munros popular with walkers and climbers. The map area includes Suilven, Canisp, CulMor,Breabag Stac Pollaidh, Conival & Ben More Assynt. This map continues to add to our superb coverage of these...

Discover all the foul facts about the history of royalty with history's most horrible headlines: Cruel Kings and Mean Queens edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the nobility. From...

"A fantastic read for foodies and a luscious culinary reference."-Booklist From the same team that created Let's Eat France! comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively complete, visual feast of a book. With a mix of...

In this addictive novel, from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Just My Luck, a marriage crumbles, cultures clash and love affairs begin in in glorious sun-drenched Italy.Don't miss Adele's latest gripping novel, Both of You, out now! And look...

London's wealth of world-class attractions are renowned and covered in numerous excellent general tourist guides. Not so well known are London's numerous smaller attractions, most of which are neglected by the throngs who descend upon the tourist-clogged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638397Author Dr. Bridget McConnellFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)...

This map of the Cotswolds & Chilterns is a full colour visitors' map featuring road mapping that covers an area extending to:*Worcester*Royal Leamington Spa*Northampton*Bedford*Dunstable*London Heathrow...

No trip to Japan is complete without an authentic onsen (hot spring) experience. But the art of Japanese communal bathing, with its relaxing qualities and healing properties, is still a mystery to most Western tourists. Help is now at hand. Onsen of...

Lucy needed a change of scene. She didn't expect the change of a lifetime. Doctors Without Borders has been Lucy Young's life for the past four years. After being rescued from a conflict zone, she's making a change from saving lives under gunfire to...

A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out - from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Karachi. Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. It is a place of...

The Time Out Lisbon City Guide covers the latest openings and trends in Portugal's most vibrant city. Guiding readers round the places that have always marked the capital as unique: world-class art galleries; bars and clubs where you can dance until...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949136Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rome helps you set out to discover the most attractive, fun and unique places in Italy's capital. Luisa Grigoletto and Christopher Livesay share 500 addresses and facts that many tourists don't know, sometimes off the beaten...

Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project was also a forerunner of today's social media. The ground-breaking event...

Harry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of the best golf books this century." -Golf Digest Tom Coyne's A Course Called Scotland is a heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course in Scotland, the birthplace of the game he...

'YOU'LL WANT TO COOK IT ALL' - Evening Standard'Rachel Roddy's writing is as absorbing as any novel. Her prose is so elegant and her story-telling so compelling that I almost forgot I was reading a cookbook.' - Russell Norman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545215Author Patricia CartinFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size--it has fewer than a million inhabitants--it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as Tokyo, London, and New York...

Cycle Touring in France concentrates on eight selected one- or two-week bicycle tours which endeavour to offer cyclists of all levels a taste of France's diverse landscapes and superb scenery. From rugged mountain ranges to vast, variegated patchworks of...

'A wonderful and sometimes devastating book ... sophisticated, nuanced, fair-minded and yet very hard hitting' SIMON KUPER'This will transport you to Qatar and teach you with humanity and empathy some of the dark truths about globalisation' BEN...

They re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They re cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of...

A guidebook to 4 treks in Nepal's Annapurna region, including Annapurna Circuit and Annapurna Sanctuary, plus 10 other routes covering the Machhapuchhre region, Parbat Myagdi, northeast Pokhara, the foothills of Lamjung Himal, and the restricted areas of...

Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth" the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta. Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to...

'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton'Everyone should read this book. Sophie Morgan is the epitome of grit and determination. Her writing is thought provoking, honest and in parts hilarious.'...

In Going to Extremes writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits Oymyakon in Siberia, where the average winter temperature is -47 degrees and 40% of the population have lost their fingers to frostbite while changing the car wheel...

A beautiful treasury of railway memorabilia Journey back to the 1950s and '60s with this nostalgic look at Britain's railways in their glory days. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a unique collection of photographs, train spotting...

Each walk features a simple-to-follow route profile and accompanying description and pictures, and new-look walk mapping that makes it easier for the user to focus on the route and the points of interest along the way.Book InformationISBN...

'[An] immersive debut... with detailed accounts of his trips and vivid descriptions of the scents ... [Roques'] rich travelogue will transport readers' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)In Search of Perfumes is a fragrant journey across the world,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846742514Author Len BanisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Countryside BooksPublisher Countryside Books

Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways.First they had to survive against...

Whether you want to eat lobster in Maine, climb New Hampshire's White Mountains, or go skiing in Vermont, the local Fodor's travel experts in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are here to help! Fodor's Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire guidebook is...