Title: Piloting Directions for the West Coast of Scotland, from the Mul of Cantire to Cape Wrath; the North Coast of Ireland, from Tory Island to Rachlin Island and the Hebrides ... Compiled from the Surveys of Mackenzie ... and others ... Fifth edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print E[...]
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazo[...]
Pembrokeshire occupies the far south western extremity of Wales with the ocean on three sides. Its coastline is complex and convoluted - a succession of cliffs and coves, inlets and islands, stacks and skerries and the great drowned estuary of Milford Haven. Many justly claim this coastal scenery to[...]
The South West Coast Path is the longest of Britain's National Trails, following the spectacular coastline for 630 miles around the southernmost tip of England from Somerset all the way to Dorset. This volume of the Official National Trail Guide, published in association with Natural England, featur[...]
Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was left to others to carve into colonies. Guyana, Su[...]
A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the Norfolk Regiment who was taken prisoner at the Fall of Singapore in February 1942. He took notes and concealed them from the Japanese for nearly three ye[...]
Birdewatchers will be enthralled by this detailed, profusely illustrated guide to birds at 39 major sites and 36 subsidiary sites on the Costa del Sol, Costa de la Luz, Costa de Almeria, Donana and some inland sites. Included in this comprehensive guide are detailed maps of all the sites that highli[...]