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Lifestyle In Rome by The Scala Group Here are the sovereigns, queens and princesses, big romances, Fellini and his icons, Americans in Rome and the paparazzi snapping away at the rich and the beautiful and their glamorous lifestyles, looks, fashion, cars, highs and lows, in love and in films. See Bridget Bardot in a bikini, 1961, a playful Anita Ekberg, the stunningly beautiful couple Sophia Loren and Paul Newman, the sexy Gina Lollobrigida in her underwear, Claudia Cardinale in 1965, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Jayne Mansfield with her family at Positano on the back of a speed boat and then dangling spaghetti into her mouth in Rome, 1961. Spartacus and Ben-Hur, eastern princes and billionaires, Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’ created a legendary scene with thousands of faces here lit up and recorded for posterity by the flashing cameras of the paparazzi. With one quality full page black and white still on every


single page of this 511 page tome. Heavyweight volume, glamorous full price new coffee table book. 11½” x 12".


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had begun their arduous journey into the mountainous interior of the island and the previously unclimbed south face of Gunung Mandala, the reason for their expedition. With map of Irian Jaya, west of Papua New Guinea and useful glossary. 216pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


70709 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN


NICOL, MARINER by Tim Flannery A rousing and readable account of an 18th century sailor’s thrilling adventures. In his many voyages, the Scottish-born Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent and participating in some of the greatest events of exploration and adventure of the era. He fought for the British Navy against American privateers and Napoleon’s armada, hunted whales in the Arctic Ocean, and was entertained at the royal court in Hawaii only days after the murder of Captain James Cook. En route to Australia, he met the love of his life, Sarah Whitlam, a convict bound for the Botany Bay prison colony who would bear his son before duty forced them apart for ever. Edited for the contemporary reader. 198pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


59989 CAPTAIN SCOTT - THE VOYAGE OF


THE DISCOVERY by Captain Robert F. Scott When this account of Scott’s first Antarctic expedition appeared in 1905 the reviewers recognised it as a masterpiece, and the first printing sold out immediately. Scott is best known for his doomed last expedition in 1912, but it was this earlier voyage that truly began the opening up of the Antarctic continent and laid the groundwork for the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic exploration. The record of that voyage is a classic account by a remarkable explorer who was also one of the most talented writers in the field of polar exploration. Wordsworth paperback, 649pp. ONLY £4


67295 GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS: In the Footsteps of 19th Century British Photographers by John Hannavy In the middle of the 19th century, travelling with a camera was both a novelty and an enormous challenge. 150 years later John Hannavy follows William Henry Fox Talbot’s route through Scotland in 1844, Charles Kinnear and Thomas Melville Raven’s 1857 journeys through France, Francis Frith’s exploration of the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel between 1856-9, Roger Fenton’s travels through Russia and Ukraine in 1852 and 1855, Samuel Bourne’s trek across India from Calcutta to Simla in 1863, and explores China and Cyprus as did John Thomson in 1863 and 1878. 253 landscape (10½”×8½”) pages with over 600 colour, sepia and b/w photos.


£25 NOW £12


67996 TRAVEL NOTEBOOK: Stationery and Stickers


16 perforated airmail letters, 16 colourful stickers to seal your letter featuring the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, binoculars, laden cars, aeroplanes etc., space for 48 names, addresses, phone and emails of your closest friends and relatives, blank pages for your sketches. On quality bright white paper, here is a daily log to note the date and the best things you saw, itineraries to complete in a weekly fill-it-in-yourself calendar, a dedication page and a paper wallet for mementoes. Spiral bound softback. Suit ages ten to adult. ONLY £2.25


68222 TREASURES OF IMPERIAL BEIJING (TIMELESS TREASURES)


by Mario Sabattini and Nicoletta Celli The Forbidden City, the most extraordinary example of an Imperial residence, was made up of thousands of buildings laid out in a symmetric grid and full of unforgettable sights such as the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace. Our lavishly illustrated volume describes the great monuments of Beijing’s past, still visible in a city in the throes of rapid transformation. Huge dragons cast in bronze, Ming china, paintings, the Empress Cixi and the royal family in antique photographs, enamelled clay figures, gilt wood columns, bright and intricate room panels and doors, court paintings, wooden partitions, arches, bridges, parks like the North Lake Park, fine brightly decorated ceilings, the Imperial College, the ancient observatory to the fragrant hills and beyond are celebrated. With hundreds of colour photos. 312pp, 27cm x 37cm, slipcased. First time discounted. £35 NOW £9


68879 PARISIANS: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb


The City of Paris is re-seen through the experiences of its inhabitants. Ranging from 1750 to the new millennium and beyond, here are tales of adulterers, policemen, murderers, prostitutes, revolutionaries, poets, soldiers and spies, all of which reveal the personality of the city in some way. The reader is shown that the Eiffel


Tower, the Louvre, the Café de Flore and Montmartre are the merest sideshows in a darker, stranger, more fragmented history, sprinkled with mystery and magic. 476 paperback pages, illus with map, chronology. £11.99 NOW £4.50


69439 IN THE LANDS OF THE ENCHANTED


MOORISH MAIDEN: Islamic Art in Portugal by Museum With No Frontiers


From the beautiful university city of Coimbra to the furthest reaches of the Algarve there are palaces, Christianised Mosques, fortifications and urban centres which all bear witness to the splendour of a glorious past. Here are analysed the construction techniques and decorative motifs of local popular architecture, the castles of the River Sado, Silves, the capital of Almohad art, tombstones from the Archaeological Museum at Faro, historic villages like Cacela Velha and the castle at Castro Marim, the White Town of Serpa, and the towns of Evora, Beja, the Citadel at Juromenha, white marble from San Tarán, the beautiful Moorish wall which you can actually walk around at Sintra. Hundreds of colour photos, map ans sketches covering 500 years. 200 page softback.


£9.99 NOW £3.75


69204 HAMMOND WORLD ATLAS: Book and CD-Rom


by Langenscheidt Publishing Group A rare opportunity to invest in an excellent quality printed world atlas in a special edition with CD-Rom by the famous mapmakers. The tome measures 11" x 14½” and contains more than 180 pages with digitised world maps with striking physical relief and 68 detailed inset maps of major metropolitan areas. This gorgeous edition has been enclosed in an attractive slipcase. There are striking colour tints and shaded relief to achieve a spectacular three dimensional effect. The edition is padded with a bonded leather cover, silver edged pages, silver foil stamping and a satin ribbon place marker. Updated in this fourth edition to reflect new names and renamed cities and the most current political boundaries, with an easy-to-use 100,000 entry master index, quick reference guide, world locator and time zone maps plus a 64 page thematic section covering deforestation, ozone depletion, the protection of our natural and cultural heritage and more. Plus 48 pages of satellite images to offer stunning views of the Earth - from Mt. Saint Helens to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef - from the perspective of space. Apologies for stain to some pages.


£79.95 NOW £20


69320 BANGKOK BABYLON by Jerry Hopkins


Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling 25 of the city’s most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographed Thai bar girls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest lived and


worked in Bangkok slums for 35 years, a circus dwarf turned computer programmer turned restaurateur and a gem dealer. All of them ‘escaped’ to Thailand to re- invent themselves. 224 pages in paperback. £14.50 NOW £2


69363 PIRACY, TURTLES AND FLYING FOXES


by William Dampier They were all racked with fever. The daring canoe trip from the Nicobar Islands had been full of hazards, not least starvation, dehydration and terrible storms. But William Dampier was a hardened adventurer. His chaotic career on the high seas encompassed three around-the-world trips and his journals became the stuff of legends. He seemed immune to danger as sailor, explorer, amateur anthropologist and pirate, his life always at risk. The setting is Sumatran shore, 1686. Map, 106pp in Penguin paperback. £4.99 NOW £1.75


69407 DIARY OF AN INVALID (1817-1819) by Henry Matthews


Subtitled ‘Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health 1817- 1819’, this is a colourful account of the author’s travels through Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France. It is what he calls a ‘wild goose chase after health’, coincidently following the fashion among the rich for making a ‘grand tour’ around the cultural highlights of the Continent. Accompanied by irreverent and humorous descriptions of the characters he meets along the way, his diary provides us with a fantastic insight into the surprising world of an English gentleman abroad in the early 20th century. Born in 1879, the author was educated at Eton and Kings College Cambridge and was made a judge in 1927. 381pp in paperback. £12 NOW £2


70919 FRANCIS FRITH IN EGYPT AND PALESTINE: A Victorian Photographer Abroad by Douglas Nickel


The first book to place Frith’s Egyptian and Levantine images in a cultural context, revealing the distinct meanings these ostensibly ‘topographic’ pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. In 1856, Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. Travelling up the Nile and then on to Sinai, Palestine, Syria and the Lebanon, he systematically crafted exquisite pictures of ruins, landscapes and legendary sites. A Quaker by birth and an entrepreneur by nature, Frith brought to his photographic projects a sense of mission, to revive and confirm the stories of the Bible, while offering to armchair travellers a seamless Oriental milieu of Romantic reverie - viz his depictions of The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphynx, the colossal sculptures at Philae and the entrance to the Great Temple at Luxor, sadly despoiled by tourism since Frith’s heyday. 240 pages


28.5cm by 26cm illustrated in b/w with chronology, maps. Princeton University Press first edition, 2003.


£57.50 NOW £18


69207 IMPRESSIONS OF RAJASTHAN


by Carisse and Gérard Busquet The superb photos throughout this book capture the everyday life of those living in Rajasthan - from the isolation of the Thar desert to women washing in groups on the banks of Lake Picchola, and from camel herders chatting at the Pushkar camel fair to children playing in the streets of Jodhpur, the blue city. The reader is permitted a rare glimpse into havali, the once luxurious homes of wealthy merchants, ornately decorated with richly painted frescoes, and also offered a unique view of women painting the walls of their modest homes with powerful, sacred


frescoes depicting village scenes, abstract designs or natural elements. The informative text explains the symbolism and spiritualism


portrayed in the murals that are essential to the cultural heritage of Rajasthan. 194 pages in colour with map.


£37.50 NOW £10


69567 GALICIA: A Concise History by Sharif Gemie


Raises questions about identity, voting motivation, language, nationalism, religion and culture, the region’s links with Iberia and Latin America. The study begins by analysing the religious importance of the Shrine of Santiago de Compostela. It analyses issues such as the mass migration of Galician to Argentina and Cuba, the sense and weaknesses of Galician nationalism, the status of Galego (the Galician language), Galicia during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, and the rise and fall of Fraga and the Conservative Partido Popular in Galicia after 1981. 205pp in paperback with illus.


£16.95 NOW £3


69005 IN-FLIGHT SCIENCE: A Guide to the World From


your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg


The author engagingly starts his book from the point of view of a nervous passenger at the airport terminal. Reassured by the fact that a car is twelve times more dangerous, the passenger proceeds to the bag check and body scan, where surveillance is explained in detail. An air flight gives an


unrivalled view of the landscape and Brian Clegg examines the psychology which prompts people to create structures which are best viewed from the air. 212pp, paperback, b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £2


69570 HISTORIC MAPS AND VIEWS OF ROME by George Sinclair


Ready for framing on a standard 11" x 14" frame are 24 coloured historic maps and views of Rome, its environs and the Vatican dating from the 15th century to the present. This beautiful collection contains a map of the Roman Empire, a view of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome from 1575, a view of the Bath of Diocletian engraved in 1721, a lithograph from the 1950s depicting the principal monuments of Rome, a view of St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican, and stunning views of various sites and landmarks like the Coliseum, the Piazza Navona and the Spanish Steps. Each map’s original printing information is provided. Softback. £12.95 NOW £3


69705 A LADY’S CAPTIVITY AMONG


CHINESE PIRATES by Fanny Loviot A mid-Victorian bestseller, translated from the French. In 1852 Fanny Loviot travelled with her sister to California on “commercial matters”. After a rough crossing, including being becalmed at Cape Horn, she reaches San Francisco, hires a room and quickly learns her way around, including negotiating the implacable enmity between the Chinese and the black populations. When a friend, Madam Nelson, wants to pursue “commercial speculations” in the east, Fanny embarks with her on the Arcturus bound for Hong Kong and Batavia. After a month’s stay Loviot takes the Caldera back to California under the captainship of the gallant 35- year old Captain Rooney, and it is Rooney who supports Loviot when the ship is attacked by pirates. After chaotic and cruel treatment they are rescued by a British steamer and Loviot is able to return to France. 149pp. £8.99 NOW £3


69863 TALES FROM THE TORRID ZONE: Travels In the Deep Tropics


by Alexander Frater Frater takes us on a dazzling personal journey through the 88 different nations that comprise the tropics. Rooted in his birthplace in the South Seas Republic of Vanautu, his story ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathes of the world that have haunted him ever


since as he visits scores of countries to learn about their history, politics, medicine, flora and fauna. But the Torrid Zone is not just a geographical phenomenon, it is also a powerfully affecting state of mind. Part memoir, part travelogue. 380pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.25


69865 TEACUP IN A STORM: An Explorer’s Guide to Life by Mick Conefrey


A witty, entertaining and utterly unique look at the great explorers, their tales of heroism and how they overcame great odds in the most inhospitable environments. Taking as its structure the stages of a typical expedition, from planning to setting out, survival to getting home, the book is packed with anecdotes from explorers such as Shackleton, Scott, Livingstone and Stanley. With bizarre and quirky lessons and examples such as rationing underwear and facing down elephants. 240pp with line illus.


£9.99 NOW £2


Travel and Places 31


69905 CANNABIS TRIPS by Bill Weinberg We go to 25 key festivals and destinations, from Amsterdam’s Cannabis Cup via Woodstock where it all began, visit the great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival in the USA, Nimbin Mardi Grass in Australia, Barcelona’s Spannabis and trip to the once sleepy fishing village visited by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and Cat Stevens in Morocco and how you can get ten years for a joint in Kenya. Full of local information, history and culture. 128 page large paperback, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £2.50


70296 MAMMOTH BOOK OF TRAVEL IN


DANGEROUS PLACES edited by John Keay First-hand accounts of exploration by David Livingstone, James Cook, Meriwether Lewis, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Sir Edmund Hillary, Hiram Bingham’s discovery of the magnificent Inca city of Machu Picchu and Wilfred Thesiger’s crossing of Arabia’s forbidding Empty Quarter with Bedouin companions. Here is the romance and danger of the great explorers’ daring expeditions which captured the public imagination and the world’s headlines to an extraordinary degree. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their first-hand accounts into print for a wide and voracious readership. 487pp in paperback with illustrations and woodcuts. £7.99 NOW £3.50


69779 MEMORIES OF TIMES PAST: Paris by Solange Hando, Florence Besson, Colin Inman et al


The book is based on 75 paintings by Mortimer Menpes (1856-1938) who was a studio assistant to James McNeill Whistler, whose style he much admired and emulated. Inspired by the pioneering 1909 colour book ‘Paris’, offering a new way of looking at sights and social history, every painting from the original book has been reproduced and enlarged for these pages, placed in a contemporary context with related images from period maps and postcards, newspapers to railway tickets, archival maps and advertisements bringing the era to life. Here are views of late 1800s and early 1900s Parisian life showcasing the Tuileries gardens, the path along the Seine and Nôtre Dame Cathedral. 178pp, 10" x 9½”.


$24.95 NOW £4.50


69781 MEMORIES OF TIMES PAST: Rome by Richard Bosworth and Colin Inman


Every painting from Alberto Pisa’s 1800s original book, all 70 paintings, have been reproduced and enlarged. Combining art, social history and scrapbook souvenirs, period maps, postcards, newspapers and railway tickets, coins and delightful artworks, there is a knowlegable commentary by modern authors who know and love Rome. Here are the Chapel at St. Benedict’s Subiaco, girls selling birds, rustic dwellings, at the foot of the Spanish Steps, a seahorse fountain, holy stairs, columns, basilicas, the Arch Titus and the Coliseum at sunset. An elegant volume, 10" x 9½”, 176pp with hundreds of colour illus.


$24.95 NOW £3.50


WAR AND MILITARIA


I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.


- Jack Handey


71255 DICTIONARY OF MILITARY QUOTATIONS by Peter Tsouras


Distills the wisdom of soldiers, commanders and military historians in one volume and 4,000 years of military history from Machiavelli and Xenophon, Crazy Horse to Eisenhower, superb apophthegms and observations. Do or Die, Command, Centre of Gravity, Exhortation, Marksmanship,


Opinion, Offence and Defence, Morale, Speeches and the Spoken Word, Strategy and Veterans are among the topic headings to turn to in this very browseworthy tome. From Xenophon, the Incorrigible Rogue, there are also another 800 individuals quoted, 4000 years of wisdom from professionals of arms and from the sack of Sumerian Ur around 2000BC to more recent themes from Rwanda and Kosovo. 400 subject areas, 3500 quotations. 512pp in facsimile reprinted. ONLY £7


71270 MILITARY MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON by David Chandler


Napoleon was one of the greatest, arguably the greatest, military commander ever to raise an army, and ever since his death his methods have been analysed and pored over in detail by military men and historians alike. In 1901 much of this work was distilled down by Cpt. William Cairnes, a Victorian


soldier of some note, who reduced the 469 military maxims commonly attributed to Napoleon to a much more sensible 78, and related them to conflicts up to and including the Boer War. David Chandler has here updated things still further with this 2002 edition to include the two World Wars of the 20th century, right up to the Gulf war and ongoing events in Afghanistan. Napoleon’s success was built on practical experience, intense study of classical warfare and his natural grasp of the key principles of waging war. Chandler presents the 78 maxims in an accessible and easily understood form and these, together with his explanatory comments reveal how Napoleon thought and why he was successful then. Then he provides the necessary context for today’s reader to compare Napoleon’s ideas with warfare in the modern age, a fascinating and extremely revealing insight into war and statecraft. It is uncanny how little things change - despite the huge advances in weaponry, war is fundamentally about human nature. 252pp with b/w pen and ink drawings. £17.99 NOW £5


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