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73621 FOOTPRINT SOUTH AFRICA HANDBOOK: 11th Edition
by Lizzie Williams
With 850 sturdily bound pages, and 4½”×7¼” and 1½” thick, this 2012 11th edition of the Footprint South Africa Handbook outlines three tried and tested itineraries of up to three weeks and 12 “unmissables”, followed by the excellent Essentials section. Splitting this immense
nation into 11 geographical chunks, for each we get an excellent background of history and geography followed by the manifold attractions of each, all the sites, cities, towns and villages, plus naturally all the places to eat, drink, sleep and visit, with full up-to-date price guides. Maps and a full-colour “mini-atlas”.
£16.99 NOW £4 73618 FOOTPRINT EGYPT
HANDBOOK by Vanessa Betts Comprehensive coverage of attractions, sleeping and eating price codes, dates of festivals, shopping, an A-Z list of essentials and an in-depth background section to help travellers understand the country’s history, culture, politics and people, so that they do not make any gaffes when they get there. Expert author Vanessa Betts
gives suggestions for packing, border crossings, which hazardous journeys to avoid, the art of bargaining and how to deal with hassle. 616 softback pages with maps, plans, line drawings, Basic Egyptian Arabic for travellers and plates in colour. £14.99 NOW £4
73620 FOOTPRINT
MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE HANDBOOK: 7th Edition by Paul Dixon
Very sturdily bound and
dimensions-wise are perfect to fit in a jacket pocket or front pocket of a rucksack at 4½”×7¼”. 672 pages cover Peninsular Malaysia (that part of the peninsula south of the Thai border, plus Singapore) and East Malaysia (the northern part of
the island of Borneo, comprising the regions of Sarawak and Sabah). The Borneo rainforest is the world’s oldest and most ecologically diverse, the cities of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are ultra-modern chrome, steel and glass metropolises and although seafaring remains a way of life. Introduction and Essentials are as comprehensive as you will ever find, then we move geographically, beginning in KL, progressing around the peninsula in four sections. Places to stay, eat, drink and be entertained. Maps and illus.
£15.99 NOW £4
73619 FOOTPRINT KENYA HANDBOOK
by Lizzie Williams Extensive, reliable listings and advice help travellers to choose the perfect hotel, restaurant, safari or tour guide and an in-depth background section enables them to understand the country’s history, culture, people and politics and prevents any avoidable faux pas. Map symbols elucidate a host of details such as mountain passes,
beaches, rocks, viewing points, petrol stations and many, many more. Accommodation and price codes, useful words and phrases, and updates on border crossings. 392 pages, illus in colour, maps and mini atlas.
£14.99 NOW £4
74267 FOOTPRINT HANDBOOKS: Set of Four
Buy all four guides and save even more. £62.96 NOW £10
73316 REEK ROON A CAMP FIRE by Stanley Robertson
Although many books have been written on the life of Gypsies and the Roma culture, very few have been written on Traveller culture. Despised by outsiders and mistrusted because of their private way of living and strange languages, during the 1400s the King of Scotland put out a decree that all Gypsies should leave his kingdom or face death. Men like Hamish Henderson came in amongst the Travelling people and became one of their champions and the author’s aunt was a wonderful ancient-ballad singer. This book is a journey of exploration to introduce the storytelling frequently performed by Travellers around the fire. 195pp, paperback, glossary.
£9.99 NOW £3.50
73815 DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS by Eric Newby
In this captivating collection of 19 tales, Newby guides the reader from shops and streets of the Barnes of yesteryear to a fair of elephants in India, and from an opal-mining town in Australia to a cycle ride along the Meridian Line, navigating rivers and ill-placed homes. It is a series of charming snapshots by the man who invented the modern comic travel book. 228pp, paperback, photos. £8.99 NOW £4.50
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,
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. - Friedrich Nietzsche
74691 60 YEARS OF FENDER: Six Decades of the
Greatest Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon
Creating a fresh perspective on the biggest name in electric guitars, this detailed and very entertaining, revised and updated volume is a must for any Fender fan. It provides a comprehensive account
of Fender’s development from the 1950s through to the new millennium and is illustrated by an unrivalled gallery of colour photos of instruments, basses and amps, players who have been inspired by them, and memorabilia. Leo Fender introduced the world to the solid body electric guitar in 1950, with the instrument we know now as the Fender Telecaster. He soon gave us two more classics: the Fender Stratocaster and the Fender Precision Bass. His sleek, adaptable instruments fuelled the pop-music boom of the 1960s, and the company’s range of instruments have been used ever since by virtually every top player, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Jaco Pastorius and Kurt Cobain. 27 x 21cm, 144 pages packed with colour photos, and with chronology of models. Last sold at £20 NOW £7.50
75052 ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF: From Flower
Maiden to Marschallin by Kirsten Liese
“And she can sing too?” asked an amazed audience member as the beautiful Elisabeth Schwarzkopf took the stage for her first American recital. One of the great soprano lieder singers of the 20th century,
and an acclaimed interpreter of operatic roles including Mozart’s Fiordiligi and Countess, Lehar’s Merry Widow and Strauss’s Marschallin Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf had a silvery voice that was completely unmistakable. Her greatest role was as the Marschallin, for which she had her own costume, a stunning grey silk dress with a purple cloak. This collection of photos illustrates the diva’s whole career, and the book also includes an interview with her at the age of 90, together with reminiscences of friends and colleagues. Elisabeth Furtwangler remembers that her husband conducted Schwarzkopf many times and always praised her voice, saying no-one could better it. Photos include Schwarzkopf leading a master-class at the Britten-Pears school in Aldeburgh, discussing a score with the pianist Alfred Brendel at the start of his career, and taking a bow with fellow immortals Gerald Moore, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Victoria de los Angeles. She is pictured with her parents and with her husband Walter Legge, and there are two spectacular portraits with Maria Callas dating from 1957 when they recorded Turandot, showing even Schwarzkopf giving centre stage to the primadonna assoluta. A collection to be treasured. 28 x 21cm, 168pp, b/w photos. Amadeus Press 2009.
£22.50 NOW £6
75135 LEARN TO PLAY COUNTRY GUITAR by Phil Capone
Author Phil says, the idea is not to turn the reader into a virtuoso in a week, but to make you confident and fluent in a wide range of techniques, whether you want to write country songs, play in a band or just love the music. The compact book is “guitar-case friendly” and is
spiral bound so it is easy to use. The first section comprises 30 lessons, starting with the basics or guitar selection, musical notation, stance, tuning and picking and fretting hand positions, moving on to simple picking and strumming patterns, the scales, bends, hammers and
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. Paperback, 118pp. £4.99 NOW £2
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. 380pp, illus, cartoons.
£7.99 NOW £2
73789 OCEAN BOULEVARD by David Baboulene
David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. It takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston, Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne then back across the Pacific, through the Gilbert and Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores, to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. Here are his tall tales and youthful high jinks, hilarious tours such as the one in Barbados. 318pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.50
74719 OPERA: The Great Composers and Their Masterworks by Joyce Bourne
As the much-loved opera singer Bryn Terfel expresses it: ‘From the cognoscente to the real novice, from the stalls to the circle to the amphitheatre, this book can open windows that will…make your visit to the opera an even more exciting,
engrossing and fabulous experience’. How can it be otherwise when the author takes the reader on a compelling tour de force of 400 years of the world’s greatest operas from Monteverdi and Purcell through to Philip Glass and John Adams, explaining en route that the word ‘élite’ means not merely an experience reserved for special people but simply ‘the best of its kind’ so that no-one need feel excluded. Here, the development of each operatic era - from the Baroque to the present day - is explored and set in its international, political and social context. Concise biographies and synopses of the key works of all the major composers are featured, accompanied by stunning stage photography and listings of the key pieces of music to listen out for. The scope of the book is tremendous. There are works from Armenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Britain, France, Austria, Russia and the United States, with revelations about the conductors and entrepreneurs, the great opera houses such as Sadler’s Wells Opera, and the great singers of the stature of Maria Callas, Sir Peter Pears, Jessye (sic) Norman, and a host of others who have won the public’s heart. An invaluable reference book of 224 pages very lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w with list of opera houses and festivals, and glossary.
£30 NOW £10
slides and then more complex patterns, licks and picks. Each lesson is complemented by the 60-track CD in the back cover, so you will soon know if you are doing it right! The second section of the book comprises the “country chord library” with diagrams and photos of around 50 useful sixth, seventh, ninth and diminished chords by root, around 100 of the pentatonic chords and a further 50 “open” pentatonic chords. All in one tidy package! Colour throughout, uses standard musical notation and TAB notation. 256pp. £12.99 NOW £6
74680 MORE ROOM IN A BROKEN HEART: The True
Adventures of Carly Simon by Stephen Davis
Although this started off as an unauthorised biography, this is packed full of fine detail directly from its subject, who concedes that her friend of many years “wields the mightiest pen on earth”. One of the greatest songwriters of a gifted generation, Carly Simon’s story is
the last untold epics of American rock ?n’ roll. Davis delves deep into her professional and private life, digging up many previously unknown parts of both. Naturally the big question - the subject of “You’re So Vain” - is broached: “It’s my first bitter song”, she said at the time, “I was thinking about three or four people when I wrote it”, three of them being Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger and Kris Kristofferson. Simon was arguably the first feminist pop star, a very difficult thing to be in an era that blatantly marketed female artistes on their sex appeal - her erect nipples, gracing the cover of No Secrets, her third album, are even today discussed and given the credit for a proportion of its platinum (25 million) sales! Her relationships with the three aforementioned lotharios and Cat Stevens, her stormy marriage to US folk hero James Taylor, her battle with breast cancer and more recent artistic and financial struggles, the stories behind the songs - it is all here and much more, plus 45 never- before-published b/w photos taken by her brother Peter. 438pp paperback.
$18 NOW £5
74714 MAKING RECORDS: The Scenes Behind the Music
by Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata
The authors of this informative book have an impressive pedigree. One is a former violin prodigy who studied at the prestigious Juillard academy and is chairman emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The other is a music historian, record producer and
award-winning writer. For almost 50 years, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. There is a craft to making records, and he has spent his life mastering it. Here, for the first time ever he shares his secrets. In a thrilling peep behind the glass of a recording studio he allows readers to sit in on the sessions that created some of the most memorable music of the 20th century, including Frank Sinatra’s Duets album, Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company and Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years. In addition to being a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history, this volume is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers actually do. What do the following musicians have in common: Pavarotti,
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McCartney, Sting, Madonna? Easy. They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone! 320 pages illustrated in b/w with selected discography and list of awards, honours and degrees. $24.95 NOW £7
74699 MAMMOTH BOOK OF BOB DYLAN
edited by Sean Egan
The enigmatic poet of rock ‘n’ roll is revealed together with his impact on popular music which has been incalculable. Bob Dylan transformed staid folk into an illuminating, but not-too-sleek vehicle for social commentary, then he swept away the romantic platitudes of rock ‘n’ roll with
pointed manifestos and cerebral musings. From the Zeitgeist-encapsulating protest of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ to the streetwise venom of ‘Like A Rollin’ Stone’ and from the mid 60s trilogy of albums ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde on Blonde’, to ‘Time Out of Mind’, his astonishing if world-weary comeback at the age of 56, Dylan’s genius has endured. Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan, both praise and criticism, from interviews, essays, features and reviews of every single album to create a comprehensive picture of the artist whose chimes of freedom still resound. 518pp in paperback. $13.95 NOW £5
75006 GREAT
INSTRUMENTAL WORKS by M. Owen Lee
The author of this invaluable tome, usually known as Father Owen Lee (b.1930), is a Catholic priest who is the recipient of four honorary doctorates and has 18 published books to his credit. He is well known to American enthusiasts of classical music for his 23 year role as commentator for the live radio
broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. If you want to find out what is really going on in a Mozart symphony, a Beethoven string quartet or the orchestral works of Debussy or Ravel, then you could not do better than to learn from this internationally renowned expert, variously described as “irreverently amusing” and “rich, dense and profound”. In this book Father Owen examines the works of some 50 composers, along the way imparting the basics of classical music with wit and panache, dropping in scores of delightful biographical titbits and generally showing the reader how life- enhancing music can be. Even better, included with the book are two CDs. CD1 (playing time 62 min) features six works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert and CD2 (playing time 74 min) includes among its ten pieces the work of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Brahms, Holst, Dvorak, Mahler and Chopin. Offers many “you may also want to hear” referrals, a glossary of terms and more unrestrained joy in his subject than is usually considered decent for a man of the cloth. 266pp paperback. £22.50 NOW £7
74019 CLAPTON: The Ultimate
Illustrated History by Chris Welch One of the greatest blues guitarists ever, Eric Clapton was being hailed as a giant of rock by the end of the sixties. This sumptuous book is not only crammed with wonderful pictures but also aims to assess Clapton’s appeal and achievement. His first band was the Roosters, and when he at last got a call - though he had no phone - from a serious Blues band, the Yardbirds, Clapton was on his way to the top. Ever publicity- conscious, the Yardbirds invaded Lord Willis’s home after he made disparaging remarks about modern bands, and an archive photo shows them performing for the grinning peer. In 1965 Clapton quit the Yardbirds and the following year Cream was formed, with the iconic album Blues Breakers featuring Clapton on the cover reading the Beano. Clapton is a survivor. 256pp, colour photos, features on his guitars, discography. £25 NOW £13
74491 A HYMN FOR ETERNITY: The Story of
Wallace Hartley by Yvonne Carroll Wallace Hartley was the bandmaster on the Titanic and it was his band that was playing when the ship went down. But who was Wallace Hartley and where did he come from? Not much has been written about this enigmatic bandmaster or his part in the tragedy. The author interviewed a surviving relative and here tells the story of one of the most British heroes ever on that ‘brilliantly beautiful starlit night.’ With cartoon illus, details on Cunard, the other musicians, the ship and crew, many rare photographs, some maps and manuscripts and programme of entertainment reproduced in facsimile. 128 page paperback.
£8.99 NOW £2.50
74020 FENDER TELECASTER: The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar That
Changed the World by Dave Hunter The Fender Telecaster is the working-class hero of the guitar world, the ultimate blue-collar guitar. A solid, single cutaway body of swamp-grown hardwood, six strings, one set of pick-ups, two chrome knurled tone and volume controls and that iconic six-in-a-line headstock that can turn its hand to any style, be it C&W, blues, rock’n’roll, punk, jazz or reggae. Tracing the evolution of the Telecaster from the Broadcaster, Nocaster and Esquire of the late ’40s and early ’50s, here are over 400 mouthwatering colour shots of the Telecaster, as well as its afore-mentioned siblings and its other family members, the Stratocaster and Precision Bass, pictured in the factory, in collections, waiting to be picked up and, most thrillingly, in use with their acolytes, people like Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, Luther Perkins, Wilko Johnson (who provides the foreword), Jimmy Page, Chrissie Hynde, Keith Richards, Waylon Jennings, Jeff Beck, Andy Summers, Merle Haggard and a great many more. 240pp, 9½”×11", colour. £25 NOW £15
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