Africa

This volume comprises the lecture course that Heidegger gave in 1941 on the metaphysics of German Idealism. The first part of the lecture course contains a preliminary consideration of the distinction between ground and existence. The elucidation of the...

Wildly beautiful, this ancient land is one of the finest destinations for wildlife viewing in southern Africa, and its opportunities for adventure are almost limitless. Footprint's Namibia Handbook will guide you from the red sands of the Kalahari to the...

An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country.Book InformationISBN 9780312186135Author Peter...

Discover how to be adored in The Birth of Venus by Boticelli; Learn how to hunt as you pore over The Night Watch by Rembrandt; Wander through Monet's field of poppies and relish the art of being bored; As a finale, enjoy the art of feasting atop a...

In 1841, a twenty-eight-year-old Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, began the first of his exploratory treks into the African veldt. During the course of his lifetime, he covered over 29,000 miles uncovering what lay beyond rivers and mountain...

Across the face of southern Africa are more than 460 remarkable stone palaces - some small, others rambling, but many are astonishing. All are the legacy of kingdoms past. Some, such as Great Zimbabwe, Khami in Botswana and Mapungubwe in South Africa,...

In the course of Pat Spain's time filming wildlife-adventure TV series, he's gotten pretty used to being uncomfortable. There've been rabid raccoon attacks, days spent in the baking equatorial African sun, and consumption of many revolting local...

Fully revised and updated, and with 60 new trails added, this fifth edition of Hiking Trails of South Africa is an essential resource for every hiker. Written by well-known author Willie Olivier, this extensive guide describes more than 500 trails across...

Unique crimes call for unique detectives When a good friend's beloved granddaughter is murdered, our ambisexual downsized-social-worker and her cat, Bunnywit, are enlisted to help solve the case. For the police, Madeline is just one more dead sex...

There is no single travel book or novel of worth for this significant holiday destination despite its abundant culture of Roman remains, Venetian and Hapsburg-era palaces.Book InformationISBN 9780907871897Author RogersonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Marco Polo Pocket Guide South Africa: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips. Explore South Africa with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the country's trendiest places,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639947365Author Ingrid van den BergFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint HPH PublishingPublisher HPH Publishing

The four-hundred-and-fifty-mile long Draa River Valley in the Moroccan Sahara contains some of the most sumptuous oases and searing desert of the Arab world, starting in the moonscape gorges of the Anti Atlas Mountains through to a green sea of date...

From the extraordinary mind of debut writer Ben Pester comes a book of stories in which the everyday - work, parents, friends - is not quite what it should be. Taken together, it forms a collection of things we are doing right now, in this lost and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312076221Author Peter CapstickFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes...

A captain who continued to live on the wreck of the Kakapo for three years, Table Mountain s most exclusive hiking, a restaurant in a maximum security prison, the arboreal evidence of apartheid s earliest manifestation, a woman disguised as a man for 56...

for TTBB and piano or organ, or unaccompanied This collection of nine of John Rutter's most popular choral works, arranged by the composer for tenors and basses, has been carefully compiled to reflect a wide variety of texts and styles. Encompassing...

Africa's Top Wildlife Countries highlights and compares wildlife reserves and other major attractions in the continent's best countries for game viewing making the planning of the journey of a lifetime easy! African countries, and the wildlife reserves...

Nazi Prisons in Britain is a ground-breaking book - a systematic study of Jersey and Guernsey prisons during the German occupation of the Channel Islands based on the experiences of the prisoners. It brings to light for the first time the surviving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780323790635Author Euclid SeeramFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint SaundersPublisher Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionWeight(grams) 184g

A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state,...

With a booming economy and stable democracy, things are going well in Namibia. Tourism plays a huge role in the country, with some 1.5 million travellers visiting each year to explore and enjoy the country's phenomenal landscapes, wildlife, natural...

Twenty-four safari guides are profiled by experienced safari travel promoter, Susie Cazenove. She tells us their stories of adventure and dreams - of following their passion into the wild and of making their guests see Africa in a new light. Read of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787165731Author Andrey TaranovFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint T&p Books Publishing LtdPublisher T&p Books Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization...

Graverobbers, prime-movers in geo-politics, jailbirds, international football celebs. Such terms are not usually associated with women in the 1920s, as women returning docilely to the domestic cage at the end of the First World War has become part of the...

In this remarkable book, Albert Baiburin provides the first in-depth study of the development and uses of the passport, or state identity card, in the former Soviet Union. First introduced in 1932, the Soviet passport took on an exceptional range of...

Part tourist guide, part monograph, this book journeys through South Africa's amazing wildlife reserves. Indicating what types of animals to find and in which provinces to find them, this record not only contains stunning pictures and pertinent, detailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639730370Author Lindy RorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Lindy RorkePublisher Lindy RorkeWeight(grams) 526g

At 5895 metres (nearly 4 miles) above sea level, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point on earth that a walker can reach. Success is not guaranteed, because each person's response to rapid altitude gain is different. But you can improve...

While the national parks and reserves of East Africa are widely known for their rich and abundant wildlife, there is another less celebrated but equally intriguing aspect to them. This book presents a new and exciting angle - the geological highlights of...

this 7th book in the series about football leagues past and present covers the 2 largest English counties, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire. Includes the Yorkshire Lge, the Sheffield Lge, the Lincolnshire Lge and the Northern Counties East Lge.Book...

The Non-verbal Reasoning series of workbooks are unique in giving children a comprehensive and progressive learning programme in skills acquisition for non-verbal reasoning. They introduce children to recognition, manipulation and movement of shapes,...

It is the final year of the twentieth century and King Sidi is dying . . .Mohamed has been the king's fool for thirty-five year, his closest counsel, privy to his deepest secrets and most intimate thoughts. It is an honoured position for which many would...

In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850770022Author Ibn BatutaFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Darf Publishers LtdPublisher Darf Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585362Author Nuzhat BukhariFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World 'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.'Isabelle Eberhardt's writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907685705Author Keith HernFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 8mm