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For everyone who has ever wondered what happens when you fall in love with a certain house, on a certain…
hill, near a certain village - Extra Virgin limns Annie Hawes's joyful romance with the enchantingly beautiful Italian Riviera. 2001.Eiger, wall of death: Wall Of Death
By Arthur J Roth. 1982
Chronicles the attempts, successful and otherwise, made by numerous mountain climbers from all over the world to scale the treacherous…
north wall of the Eiger. The Swiss alp is considered to be the world's most difficult climb and has claimed over forty lives. 1982.Ebdon's England
By John Ebdon. 1985
John Ebdon captures the whims and eccentricities of the English character in this portrait of the country and its people:…
the regimented Farnham commuter, and the cantankerous neighbours with deep down hearts of gold. Explaining along the way why Yorkshiremen are "God's own people" and how London views tourists. 1985.Ebdon's odyssey
By John Ebdon. 1979
The first book from the Director of the London Planetarium, better known as a humorous broadcaster. Here he writes about…
the non-tourist side of Greece, two islands in the Cyclades, where he is accepted into the villages as a welcome inhabitant. In his own words, "It is not a travel book. It is about people... of the islands of Andros and Kos." 1979.Death and dignity: making choices and taking charge
By Timothy E Quill. 1993
A physician describes the decision-making process of one of his patients and his role in assisting her suicide. Quill reveals…
how he came to believe that medicine does not properly address the needs of the dying. He outlines alternative choices that he believes a patient can make in consultation with his or her doctor and argues for the need to challenge the status quo that makes one choice an illegal act. 1993.Cleo: how a small black cat helped heal a family
By Helen Brown. 2010
Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year old son Sam was. A week after Helen agreed to let…
Sam have a kitten, Sam was killed in a road accident. Not long after this, a little black kitten was delivered to the family's doorstep. Helen was ready to send her back, but Sam's younger brother, Rob, identified with the kitten who'd also lost her brothers. Stroking her, it was the first time Helen had seen him smile since Sam's death. There was no choice, the kitten -- dubbed Cleo -- had to stay. Cleo's immense character slowly taught the family to laugh again, giving them hope of getting back to normal. 2010.Danube: A Sentimental Journey From The Source To The Black Sea
By Claudio Magris. 1989
Explores the Danube River as it flows through middle-European countries from the Bavarian hills to the Black Sea. Examines the…
tension between Greco-Roman and Teutonic cultures, the roots of fascism, the splendour and decline of the Hapsburg dynasty, and the evil of Nazism. 1989. Uniform title: Danubio.Canadian travellers in Europe, 1851-1900
By Eva-Marie Kröller. 1987
A detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the 19th century provides an unusual perspective on Canadian history. Canadians abroad…
preferred Britain, France, Italy and Palestine, in that order. The major world expositions and Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees figure prominently in the writings. 1987.With a borrowed rucksack, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from the Hook of Holland to walk to Constantinople.…
This sequel continues the journey down the Danube from Budapest; on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania, a wild beautiful region of forests and mountains secluded from Western eyes during centuries of religious and national complexity. He planned to live "like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar" but found instead leisurely sojourns in castles. Sequel to "A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube". 1986.Coasting (Picador Bks.)
By Jonathan Raban. 1987
In 1982 the author set out in an old, made-over ketch, to the only wilderness left: the sea. Unlike his…
predecessors, he was not weighted down by "testaments, theories and dogmas;" he wanted to find out what made his own "peculiar country tick" and, in so doing, he charted the coastline of his past, took soundings for the future and unfurled a map of Britain that is comedy and tragedy in one. 1987.Cemetery stories: creepy graveyards, embalming secrets & the life of a corpse after death
By Katherine M Ramsland. 2001
Beyond Belfast: a 560-mile walk across Northern Ireland on sore feet
By Will Ferguson. 2009
Ferguson describes his attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way, a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland. Along the way,…
this grandson of a Belfast orphan uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, and rumours of a vast estate, but the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny. Winner of the 2010 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. c2009.Bereavement: studies of grief in adult life (Pelican books)
By Colin Murray Parkes. 1998
This is the third edition of a classic study into bereavement, which aims to answer questions like: how is bereavement…
affected by age, gender, manner of death, personal psychology and culture; what are the signs of pathological grieving which can lead to mental illness; and how can carers provide genuine help without interfering with the painful but necessary "work" of mourning? New to this edition are discussions of the many forms of loss and recent research by the author. 1988.An innocent in Scotland: more curious rambles and singular encounters
By David McFadden. 1999
Setting out to explore Scotland, his ancestral home, McFadden plans to follow the same route as H.V. Morton. Instead he…
charts an erratic course, interspersing accounts of the country with conversations of the people he encountered. 1999.An innocent in Ireland: curious rambles and singular encounters
By David McFadden. 1995
In the 1990s, the author intended to follow the same route taken in the 1930s by travel writer H.V. Morgan,…
to chart the similarities and differences about Ireland. Soon, however, he found himself wandering erratically, as the journey became increasingly his own. The book offers a humourous, affectionate look at Ireland of the 1990s. 1995.Among the Russians: From The Baltic To The Caucasus
By Colin Thubron. 1983
Colin Thubron learned Russian and entered the Soviet Union in an old Morris Marina in which he camped and drove…
for almost 10,000 miles between the Baltic and Caucasus. Everywhere he went he encountered and listened to people of all ages, occupations and interests. He met dissidents and was dogged by the KGB. The result is a fascinating and revealing picture of the many races who inhabit a giant country. 1983.Accueillir la mort: questions et réponses sur la mort et les mourants
By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Philippe Beaudoin. 1998
Comme le titre l'indique, ce livre présente les questions souvent posées par les différents acteurs qui, à titres divers, sont…
touchés par le sujet : patients incurables, entourage, personnels médical et social. L'auteure y répond en fonction de son savoir de praticienne et n'hésite pas à traiter des dimensions sociales, philosophiques et spirituelles sous-jacentes. 1998.A traveller's history of Ireland (Traveller's history)
By Peter Neville. 1997
A full history of Ireland from Prehistory to the present. Beginning with early Celtic Ireland, Neville chronicles the main events…
and important figures in Irish history, from Saint Patrick, the high kings, the Anglo-Irish relationship, the Potato Famine, to modern Ireland and its separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. 1997.Aftermath: travels in a post-war world
By Farley Mowat. 1995
Hoping to put wartime recollections into new perspective, Mowat and his first wife, Frances, toured Europe in the spring of…
1953. Mowat shares his own recollections as well as those of others they met on the journey. The sites they visited included London, Kent, Paris, Positano, and San Carlo. 1995.A year in Provence
By Peter Mayle. 1989
First, a dream of life in Provence, and then a home to match the dream. Moving into an old farmhouse…
at the foot of the Luberon Mountains between Avignon and Aix was the beginning of an exotic and bewildering new life for Peter Mayle and his wife. "A year in Provence" is Peter Mayle's own hilarious description of their pleasurable and occasionally frustrating experiences. 1989.