73969 LIGHTS OF MANKIND: The


Earth at Night As Seen from Space


by L. Douglas Keeney A trip into space is one of the


rarest of human experiences, and this book includes first-person perspectives by astronauts like Don Pettit, Douglas Wheelock and others who took these photographs. The book is the story of how we have populated our planet as told through inspiring, panoramic photographs of Earth at night. These images were made possible by the latest light- sensitive cameras and the newly installed Cupola Observation Module on the International Space Station. They tell a story of agriculture, geography, warring, disease, food supply, water supply, politics and power supply. The River Nile snakes towards the Mediterranean. See Chicago to New York City in an 800 mile view, Moscow in a series of ever-enlarging concentric circles of ring roads, The City of London looking over the English Channel towards France. A magnificent panorama of the European continent shows the great cities of Antwerp, Naples and Barcelona with Lyon to the right and the bright lights of Milan near the top of the photograph. There is a brilliant display of lights from Perth to Adelaide and laced by canals, Osaka is sometimes called the ‘Venice of Japan’. The Mediterranean and North Africa, the Middle East, South America and Mexico, the Far East, Australia, Europe, North America, the Unintentional Artwork of Man, the Seven Wonders of the Night Time World and Space Vehicles are among the chapter headings. A spectacular photography book with a difference printed on glossy black paper so that the images stand out almost in 3D. Useful index. 282 large


panoramic pages with images never published previously in one volume.


$32.50 NOW £7.50


73381 SNAKES WITH WINGS AND GOLD- DIGGING ANTS by Herodotus


Exiled from Halicarnassus, Herodotus (circa 490-415BC) undertook some of the many journeys described in his Histories. He is known as the ‘Father of History’, a title first given to him by Cicero. In Ancient Egypt, 415BC, Herodotus cannot believe his ears when Egyptians tell him of snakes that fly, bodies preserved in oil, and a tame crocodile with bracelets on its feet. The other titles in the collection are Vessels of Silver and A Headless Corpse, The Dead are Buried in Honey, The Pillar of the Sky and Fish-Eaters and the Crystal Coffin. Penguin classic paperback, 118pp. £4.99 NOW £2.50


72153 WESTERN EUROPEAN CITIES by AA Key Guide


Expert travel writers help you choose the right restaurants and hotels and the leg work has been done in a super shopping guide. With super-clear colour street map, website reviews and lots of local tips, the countries covered are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Excellent transport maps and city centre maps including cities and website references. Softback with laminated cover, 456pp, colour photos. £14.99 NOW £3.50


73668 A TRAVELLER’S LIFE by Eric Newby George Eric Newby (1919-2006) was born near Hammersmith Bridge and began his life of travels with pram-rides down the dark streets of Barnes and the jungles of Harrods and progressed swiftly to solo excursions around the slums of Hammersmith, a navigation of the London sewer system and a bicycle ride to Italy! His love of travel and adventure was further nurtured by wartime service. Captured in August 1942 during a raid on Sicily, he escaped and hid out in the Apennine hills, aided by a Slovenian woman, Wanda, who would later become his wife and travelling companion. He was eventually recaptured at the end of 1943 and described this time in his 1971 memoir Love and War in the Apennines. His best known work, the 1958 A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, described an expedition to the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest travel books of all time, celebrated for its comedic moments as well as its description of a region barely known to Europeans. Newby published this compendium of travels and other events in his fascinating life in 1982, and we are offering here the 2010 paperback edition. Here too is New York, Italy to Germany with the Gestapo, all over Asia, Africa, the Middle East and even his reluctant involvement in a tiger shoot near Hyderabad in 1963. With all his hallmark infectious enthusiasm and wit. Photos, 343pp.


£8.99 NOW £4.50 73366 MAP OF THE WORLD GIANT JIGSAW


PUZZLE by the Great American Puzzle Factory GIANT means two foot by three foot when all 600 carefully cut out pieces have been correctly assembled. The map of the world is in bright colours pointing out cultural amenities and structures, historic folklore and the peculiarities of lands, sports and competitions, natural sights and plants, animals, ships, marine life and aviation. Includes a Legend with icons that help explain the hundreds of illustrations. See side panels for close-ups of some of the art in this puzzle. Ages 7 to adults.


ONLY £7


57493 LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER


COLUMBUS by Washington Irving People had thought it was only the great distance that made it impossible to reach Asia sailing west from Spain. No one had predicted that a vast continent stood in the way. And indeed, for Columbus himself, the revolution of understanding was too much to comprehend. He had counted on a new route to Asia that would bring him glory, riches and titles, and the thought of an unknown and undeveloped continent held no attractions. The trials and disappointments of the great explorer are graphically detailed in this biography first published in 1828, when Washington Irving was America’s most famous writer. Paperback, 720 pages. ONLY £4


71500 PARISIANS: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb


Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, the book begins at the dawn of the French Revolution with some excursions to the medieval and prehistoric past. It traces the spread of the city of Paris from the island in the Seine that was home of the Parisii tribe to the mushrooming suburbs that inspire fear today. Chapters cover Madame Zola, Marcel in the Metro, the Notre- Dame Equation, the Occupation and the Périphérique. Map of Paris and 25 illus. 476pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


72105 AGAINST THE FLOW by Tom Fort


Subtitled ‘Wading Through Eastern Europe’, it was 20 years ago that Tom Fort drove his little red car onto the ferry at Felixstowe. The old order that has held Eastern Europe in its grip for half a century has gone, and no one yet knew what the new order would be. What hadn’t changed were the landscapes and the rivers that flowed out of the mountains of Poland, Slovakia and Romania, and across the plains of Bohemia and Hungary. The EU and NATO opened their arms to former Eastern Bloc countries and young people flooded West in search of work and prosperity. As the human tide flowed and then ebbed, Tom wondered what had happened to the places he remembered so well, and to the friends he had made all those years before. Starting this time on the bus from London to Krakow, Tom retraces his steps of 20 years before. 306pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.25


72144 NEW GRANTA BOOK OF TRAVEL edited by Liz Jobey


Redmond O’Hanlon goes into the heart of the undernourished Republic of Congo in search of an apocryphal dinosaur. Kathleen Jamie takes a walk on a stretch of boggy moorland in her native East Ayrshire where she has a chat with a farmer. Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, W. G. Sebald, Paul Theroux, Thomas Keneally and Robert MacFarlane are among the writers of these 23 short stories. 429pp, paperback. £15 NOW £3


73055 BON VOYAGE! The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys


edited by Michael Kerr The contributors, in this collection of the best of the Telegraph’s articles on travel by river and sea, number among them such luminaries as Martha Gellhorn, Ellen MacArthur, Jenny Diski, Nicholas Crane of Coast fame, and many more. Here is the lonely, tragic demise of the


round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, and here the sailing of the Task Force for the Falklands, which was watched by Michael Nicholson from the poop deck of HMS Hermes. There are historic events such as the D-Day landings and an incredible account from the 19th century of the arduous adventures in the heart of Africa of H. M. Stanley. There is the first transatlantic voyage of the new Queen Mary, and the last cruise of the QE2. 343 pages. £20 NOW £4


73175 TRAVELS OF THE ZEPHYR: An Interactive Journey Around the World by Caroline Mac Killian


Between 1923 and 1925, explorer James Mac Killian decided to set out to see the world. Travelling in his homemade hot-air balloon, the Zephyr, the goal of his expeditions was to visit people around the globe and to discover traditions including languages, foods, beliefs and rituals. Every place he explored - from Greenland to North America, from Brazil to Africa and from China to Russia - indeed, everything he witnessed has been chronicled. Here is the haka peruperu of the Maori warriors, a jerky dance employed to frighten away intruders, and terrifying tarantulas of Africa that are larger than a human hand. 51 tough pages 28cm x 27.5cm in colour, sepia/white and b/w, full of interactive devices such as antique and foreign maps that unfold, envelopes with letters, sketches and drawings. £15.99 NOW £5


73576 SMELL OF THE CONTINENT


by Richard Mullen and James Munson


A charming, witty, diligently researched and eminently readable snowstorm of engaging letters, novels, magazine articles and biographies about the British discovery of Europe. In the summer of 1814. Over the next 100 years laden with carpets, desks,


rubber baths and a generous portion of prejudice, the British set out en masse, to discover Europe. Historians Mullen and Munson draw on contemporary tales to reveal what it was about the Continent that so enticed and repelled our Victorian forebears. Here is a fantastic glimpse of a time when the British public stopped expecting the world to be brought to them and ventured across the Channel to find it for themselves. 380pp, illustrations and cartoons. £7.99 NOW £3


TELEPHONE: 0207 474 2474 A Mediterranean Trilogy


Nicholas Woodsworth’s circumnavigation of the Liquid Continent


73908 LIQUID CONTINENT: A


Mediterranean Trilogy Vol I: Alexandria


by Nicholas Woodsworth Fifty years ago, French writer Jean Cocteau said of the Mediterranean Sea “Of all the world’s continents, it is the only one that is liquid.” Author, journalist and travel


correspondent Nicholas Woodsworth, after many years of travel and reporting from its shores came to a similar conclusion: “I’m starting not to think of the Mediterranean as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Africa and Asia…but a single entity, a place from whose coastlines people look not outwards, to this country or that capital, but inwards over the water to each other.” So he decided to visit all the ports and towns on the Sea’s coast, and described his travels in his Mediterranean Trilogy, which are delighted to be able to offer in full in this issue. Volume I explores the ancient city of Alexandria and its environs, a region that is neither African, Middle Eastern nor European but which exudes the warmth and near-tribal sociability of other places on the Sea’s fringes, a place which is identifiable as purely Mediterranean. From the silver air-conditioned express train that whisks the traveller in from Cairo through the vast plains and mud-brick villages of the Nile Delta that are still being farmed in much the same way as they were before Christ, and from the 15-mile waterfront Corniche which makes the city look as glamorous as Miami Beach, which hides the dirty run-down backstreets with their pimps, petty crooks, blocked drains and decaying façades, this is a place of remarkable yet somehow understandable contrasts. Woodsworth’s descriptions are full of fascinating people, places and observations of historical and geographical importance which bring this unique city, once our planet’s most splendid metropolis, vibrantly to life. 282pp, 12.9 x 16.8cm. £12.99 NOW £5


73909 LIQUID CONTINENT: A


Mediterranean Trilogy Vol II: Venice


by Nicholas Woodsworth Volume II of Nicholas


Woodsworth’s circumnavigation of the Liquid Continent sees the author, due to a compelling argument put forward by his wife Jany, backtracking and heading


toward Venice for springtime. Although the city’s


72730 MOST AMAZING PLACES TO VISIT IN BRITAIN


published by the Reader’s Digest Subtitled ‘The 1,000 Most Unusual, Beautiful and Captivating Spots in Britain’. From the Shetlands to the Scilly Isles. This guide is packed with thoroughly practical info, including directions, opening times and other important visitor necessaries. Large regional maps of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make it easy to plan your trip. Detailed close-up maps take you on inspirational walks in city, town and country. In- depth features expand your knowledge and increase your appreciation while covering, for instance, remarkable aspects of Britain, such as sub-tropical gardens in Cornwall and prehistoric sites in the Orkneys. 320 softback pages 26cm x 18cm with 130 pictures in gorgeous colour. £14.99 NOW £6


72988 GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA by Ernest Hemingway


Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. A classic of travel/ autobiography here in 200 page paperback with line art. £6.99 NOW £2.50


73127 CRAZY RIVER by Richard Grant


Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in the Sierra Madre, Grant now plunges with trademark recklessness into Africa, in an exhilarating and gripping descent through a previously unexplored river, the Malagarasi. Waylaid by thieves and whores, Grant travels by raft, dodging bullets and crocodiles,


hacking through swamps and succumbing to fever before finally emerging, bloody but not broken, at his journey’s end. Packed with masochism and self pity. 272pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4


72662 OXFORD BOOK OF EXPLORATION Second Edition


edited by Robin Hanbury-Tenison Real explorers are driven by a desire to discover, and thus to advance knowledge, which transcends the urge to conquer, or the pursuit of trade. Many great moments and exceptional people are recorded in this awesome volume. Some, like Neil Armstrong’s first step on to the moon or Stanley’s encounter with Dr Livingstone, are well known. Others, such as Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, the first man to take a ship through the North East passage, and Ibn Battúat, who was the first explorer to cross the whole of Asia and bring back a description, are perhaps less familiar. 576 paperback pages.


£9.99 NOW £3


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history is studded with tales of war, crusade, intrigue, power and the arts, inevitably a city that sits in a lagoon will attribute its wealth to its maritime dominance and commercial links with other Mediterranean ports from the Adriatic to the Levant. So, with some reluctance the author eschewed the museums, galleries and architecture to concentrate on the city’s on-going love affair with the sea. Here is the Arsenale, the heart of Venice’s marine activity and the mysterious corridors of the State Archives. He sails on a world-class Venetian racing yacht, takes part in a celebrated rowing race and also meets the city’s top gondola builder. Then, signing on as a canal-boat delivery man, he discovers the backwaters of Venice, the intimate parts of the city rarely seen by outsiders, culminating in the day when a combination of heavy rain and a four day long Scirocco wind saw the waters rise over a metre above normal, and in the unique calm panic of this Venetian “aqua alta” he witnessed the romance and true character of the city and its people. An utterly irresistible mix of travel, history and acute observation of a truly inimitable place. 282pp. £12.99 NOW £5


73910 LIQUID CONTINENT: A


Mediterranean Trilogy Vol III: Istanbul


by Nicholas Woodsworth In the final instalment of his Mediterranean circumnavigation, Nicholas Woodsworth once again takes the road less travelled, this time from Venice to Istanbul via Albania, Lesbos and the


Dardanelles. For over 500 years the Ottomans held sway over the eastern Mediterranean and Istanbul, or Constantinople as it was then known, was the centre of the empire’s maritime activity and the city enjoyed a particularly vigorous and productive cosmopolitan life. Woodsworth installed himself in the Lycée Saint- Benoit, a former Benedictine monastery overlooking the Golden Horn and proceeded to immerse himself in the social life of a city that was once the capital of a vast and ethnically complex empire. He met fishermen of the Bosphorus, the remnants of the city’s Greek Orthodox and Armenian communities as well as many Turks and other Europeans drawn by the city’s unique combination of modern secularism, traditional Islam and orthodox Christianity, and finds in today’s Istanbul a solution, at least in part, to the future of globalisation. Once again, a jaunty, compelling narrative of history, travelogue and, above all, the city itself and the people who inhabit it. 242pp. £12.99 NOW £5


74118 A MEDITERRANEAN TRILOGY


by Nicholas Woodsworth Buy the trilogy and save even more. ONLY £12


WAR AND MILITARIA


Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.


- F. E. Adcock


74008 WORLD WAR II SECRET OPERATIONS HANDBOOK by Stephen Hart and Chris Mann


Discover how anti-Nazi forces blew up enemy patrol bridges, sank ships in protected harbours, built underground weapons stores, created disguises and false identities, used secret radios, improvised weapons from


everyday objects and practiced unarmed combat in the last global war. It is a guide to clandestine operations and techniques used in Nazi-occupied territory covering the SOE, OSS and Maquis Guide to Sabotaging the Nazi War Machine. With line art, diagrams and maps throughout in big clear layout, 320pp in softback. $19.95 NOW £6


73894 TRENCH KNIVES AND MUSTARD GAS: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France


by Hugh S. Thompson One of the most celebrated American units sent to France following the 1917 US declaration of war was the 42nd Division, known as the Rainbow Division. It was created following a politically motivated proposal by Major


Douglas MacArthur to form a division from National Guard units from across the US, thus ensuring national participation in the “war to end all wars”. Hugh Thompson sought service as soon as war was declared, secured a commission and after completing Officer Training was sent to France with the first contingent of unassigned officers of the Rainbow. After a stint in the trenches of Lorraine, where he was wounded and gassed, he was on the receiving end of one of Ludendorff’s last desperate offensive “hammer blows” at Champagne-Marne, where he was wounded once again and then, having recovered from his wounds, took part in the September 1918 assault on the St. Mihiel salient, where he received the leg wounds that would end his war and dominate the rest of his life. His record of his experiences was serialised in 1934 in the Chattanooga Times, and this newly edited edition allows the author to tell his story to a new generation. It is an intense


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