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The Fever Pitch of cycling. A social and cultural history of cycling in post war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist. Written with great literary and historical relish, One More Kilometre will examine the spread of cycling's popularity, how it developed into a sport and how the bicycle has changed people's lives -- all viewed through the eyes of a seasoned fifty-six-year-old racing cyclist/art crtic who keeps eleven racing cycles in his garden shed and who never cycles less than 10,000 miles a year. The book will start with the 1950s, regarded as the golden age of cycling, and when the author, 'an unhappy communist child', first discovered cycling and its emancipating powers. Progressing through four decades of cycling social history the author will examine cycling as a Continental phenomenon, the rise and fall of the Tour de France; the lives of the great 'trackmen'; cycling in its domestic form, cycling for fun, the ever-popular British cycling clubs -- some of which are over one hundred years old and are home to many fellow eccentrics, fanatics and old-timers, like the author's friend, 'the Yorkshire junior road race champion of 1954, now living in a caravan, crippled and penniless with his much younger companion a taxidermist -- beautiful and cruel'. The book will be a lovely blend of personal anecdote, serious history and informed obsession, combining gentle humour, personal reminiscence and good history .

Book by Bliss, Michael, Brooks, Marilyn, Clarkson, Adrienne, Danby, Ken, Frechette, Sylvie, Peterson, Oscar, Robertson, Lloyd

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The Pants Of Perspective: One woman's 3,000 kilometres running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand 1.53

Named after a mountain two kilometres southwest of Mount Everest, The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket is an outerwear classic that’s fully geared up for the outdoors. Dressed in vibrant yellow with shiny ripstop fabric, it’s filled with down to provide enhanced warmth and protected with a durable water-repellent finish against light moisture and showers. 100% Recycled Nylon, Water Repellent Finish, 700-Fill Goose Down, Packable Hood, Zip Closure, Embroidered Branding, The North Face. The North Face Women's 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Yellow, Size Small

Named after a mountain two kilometres southwest of Mount Everest, The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket is an outerwear classic that’s fully geared up for the outdoors. Dressed in vibrant yellow with shiny ripstop fabric, it’s filled with down to provide enhanced warmth and protected with a durable water-repellent finish against light moisture and showers. 100% Recycled Nylon, Water Repellent Finish, 700-Fill Goose Down, Packable Hood, Zip Closure, Embroidered Branding, The North Face. The North Face Women's 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Yellow, Size Large

Named after a mountain two kilometres southwest of Mount Everest, The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket is an outerwear classic that’s fully geared up for the outdoors. Dressed in vibrant yellow with shiny ripstop fabric, it’s filled with down to provide enhanced warmth and protected with a durable water-repellent finish against light moisture and showers. 100% Recycled Nylon, Water Repellent Finish, 700-Fill Goose Down, Packable Hood, Zip Closure, Embroidered Branding, The North Face. The North Face Women's 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Yellow, Size X-Small

Named after a mountain two kilometres southwest of Mount Everest, The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket is an outerwear classic that’s fully geared up for the outdoors. Dressed in vibrant yellow with shiny ripstop fabric, it’s filled with down to provide enhanced warmth and protected with a durable water-repellent finish against light moisture and showers. 100% Recycled Nylon, Water Repellent Finish, 700-Fill Goose Down, Packable Hood, Zip Closure, Embroidered Branding, The North Face. The North Face Women's 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Yellow, Size Medium

Named after a mountain two kilometres southwest of Mount Everest, The North Face 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket is an outerwear classic that’s fully geared up for the outdoors. Dressed in vibrant yellow with shiny ripstop fabric, it’s filled with down to provide enhanced warmth and protected with a durable water-repellent finish against light moisture and showers. 100% Recycled Nylon, Water Repellent Finish, 700-Fill Goose Down, Packable Hood, Zip Closure, Embroidered Branding, The North Face. The North Face Women's 1996 Retro Nuptse Jacket in Yellow, Size X-Large

Un hymne sublime à la jeunesse, à l'audace, et à la liberté. À dix-huit ans, jack London quitte son emploi et part découvrir le monde. Devenu hobo, c’est-à-dire un passager clandestin à bord des trains, il parcourt des milliers de kilomètres à travers l'Amérique du Nord. Prenant tous les risques, il croise sur son chemin les "gosses de la route, ces vagabonds du rail qui bravent le froid, la faim et la loi, mais goûtent l'ivresse de l'aventure." Cette expérience extraordinaire marquera sa vie. En édition bilingue anglais/français, avec lecture audio intégrée : Non seulement vous pouvez lireLes Vagabonds du Rail (The Road) en français et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi écouter la lecture de cet ouvrage dans sa version originale anglophone, grâce à votre téléphone ou tablette. L'idéal pour améliorer votre maîtrise de la langue anglaise !

The Sky Travellers is the story of an extraordinary journey of exploration - three thousand kilometres by foot, from March 1938 to June 1939, through the formidable mountains of the western highlands of Papua New Guinea. The Hagen-Sepik Patrol was Australia's last great exploring expedition, and it marked the end of 450 years of European land exploration worldwide. It mapped and described unknown country, made first contact with many Highlands peoples, established outposts including Mount Hagen and found a major goldfield.Highlanders remember wondering who these strange visitors were. Pale skin suggested that they were spirits - sky people. How should they be treated? Local people repeatedly asked New Guinea's perpetual question, 'Why have you come?Over 350 people were on the patrol. Most were carriers from Highlands areas already familiar to Europeans. About forty New Guinean police came from distant coastal places. Jim Taylor led the expedition, accompanied by two other Australians, John Black and Pat Walsh.Many of the people who made the journey, and many of the Highlanders who saw white men for the first time, lived long enough to tell their story directly.

The construction of the Burma-Thailand railway is one of the most extraordinary stories of World War II. 13,000 Allied prisoners of war and 70,000 Asian conscripts died as slaves to build the railway. With primitive tools and no regard for human life, the Imperial Japanese Army thrust the railway over 400 kilometres through one of the most rugged and pestilence-ridden areas in the world, in the incredibly short span of 12 months. The cost was a life for every sleeper laid over its most difficult sections. Hugh V.Clarke, a survivor, makes use of documents, first-hand reports and photographs, many of which have never been published. Some photographs were taken by a Japanese surveyor during construction. Others show what remains of that effort and agony after four decades. All bear witness to the immensity of the exercise and its cost.

Relax, take a coffee-table trip back into ancient history. Unlike the sweating, impatient tourist who wants to do the pyramids and the sphinx in order to catch the next plane home, you'll have some real quality time to explore this enormous and rich land of a million square kilometres and countless breathtaking monuments. Steeped in mythology and a cultural diversity that comes From being located between Africa and the Orient, Egypt makes For a fascinating journey in photographs, illustrations and text. Visit the old capital of Guiza, then float down the twisting pathways of the river Nile, wander through the bazaars in the bustling alleys of Cairo, or get lost in the awesome deserts and oases of the Egyptian region. As well as immersing yourself in the past, you'll get to meet the people of contemporary Egypt, albeit those spice traders, fishermen, and street hawkers whose lifestyles have barely changed for centuries. Catch a vanishing world before it finally disappears.

In one action-packed year, the authors traveled 3,500 kilometres by canoe and dog team across Canada's vast Arctic. They also lived with an Inuit family and learned how to build igloos and run a team of seven huskies. In this book, the authors share their Arctic adventures, including the thrill of having 15,000 caribou tramp past their tent and the suspense of camping on shifting ice.

The 30th-anniversary edition of this popular guide is fully updated with all the information you need for a safe and enjoyable trek on the West Coast Trail.The bestselling Blisters and Bliss has been the trekker's guide to the West Coast Trail since 1989. The 75-kilometre trail on Vancouver Island is rated as one of the world's greatest hikes. In this revised ninth edition, David Foster and Wayne Aitken once again provide a practical and easy-to-use resource for the thousands of hikers who visit the West Coast Trail every year. Combining current and accurate trail information with hundreds of safety and planning tips, this is the ideal guide for novices and experienced trekkers alike.

This is a less well-known but just as exciting and charming comic book adventure from the creator of Tintin. In Mr Pump's Legacy the first aeroplane to be flown from Paris to New York at 1000 kilometres per hour will receive 10 million dollars. In an attempt to save the Stratoship H.22 from being stolen by gangsters, Jo and Zette take off with their pet monkey Jocko. But running short on fuel they soon find themselves having to land on a desert island. The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko was created by Herge in the same comic book style as his most iconic character, Tintin, whose place amongst the classic children's characters still helps to sell over 100,000 copies every year in the UK, with an estimated 230 million sold worldwide since Herge first put pen to paper on him. Two of The Adventures of Tintin were adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011.

Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire and the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos and two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old and just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain and sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit of unknown size. Beyond the relative safety of the perimeter wire, Mellas will face disease, starvation, leeches, tigers and an almost invisible enemy. Beneath the endless jungle canopy, Bravo Company will confront competing ambitions, duplicitous officers and simmering racial tensions. Behind them, always, Matterhorn. The impregnable mountain fortress they built and then abandoned, without a shot, to the North Vietnamese Army -

Hal Higdon shows runners of every calibre how to train and run short, popular 5, 8 and 10 kilometre races faster with added information on how to recuperate and stay focused when the going gets rough.

The history of the Roman Empire and its technological and military prowess resounds through the ages. At its height, the empire covered five million square kilometres and held sway over 70 million people. How did a small city state in Latium achieve such prominence and carve an empire against which all other empires are measured? The answer is, in part, the Roman Legionary. It was Roman soldiers who carved out a foothold in Italy from warring neighbours. It was the legions who made safe the empire from external menaces – such as the Carthaginians, Greeks and Parthians – and who defeated fierce tribal leaders such as Boudicca in Britain and Vercingetorix in Gaul. It was the Roman legionaries who did much of the early building in these provinces and who policed the new borders. They maintained internal order, crushed rebellions by subjects or slaves, and provided the necessary muscle for imperial governors. Unique in so many ways, the Roman Army was the most feared fighting force of the ancient world, partly because of its outstanding discipline and organisation, but also because the men who made up its legendary legions were well trained, experienced warriors. The Roman Soldier Operations Manual gets to grips with what we know about the men of the legions, and includes fascinating detail on kit, equipment, weapons and insignia, as well as their unique fighting formations and battle tactics.