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В свои тридцать с небольшим Эдвард Парнелл оказался в ловушке повторяющегося кошмара семейной трагедии. В поисках утешения он обратился к своим книжным полкам, вернулся к историям о привидениях, которые преследовали его в детстве, и к писателям на протяжении веков, которые пытались противостоять тому, что происходит после смерти • В "Стране призраков" Парнелл отправляется на поиски "уединенных мест" Британских островов, наших пустынных вересковых пустошей, наших поросших мхом кладбищ, наших суровых берегов и наших фольклорных лесов. Он исследует, как эти пейзажи вызвали в воображении и сформировали калейдоскопический спектр литературы и кинематографа, от историй о привидениях и странной фантастики М. Р. Джеймса, Артура Мейчена и Элджернона Блэквуда до детских фантастических романов Алана Гарнера и Сьюзан Купер; от "Колец Сатурна" У

Более тысячелетия полинезийцы занимали самые отдаленные острова в Тихом океане, огромный треугольник, простирающийся от Гавайев до Новой Зеландии и острова Пасхи. До прибытия европейских исследователей они были единственными людьми, которые когда-либо жили там. Будучи как наиболее близкородственным, так и наиболее широко расселенным народом в мире до эпохи массовой миграции, полинезийцы могут проследить свои корни до группы легендарных путешественников, которые отважились отправиться в неизвестность в одном из величайших приключений в истории человечества • Как первые полинезийцы нашли и колонизировали эти отдаленные острова? Как люди, не имевшие письменности и металлических орудий труда, покорили самый большой океан в мире? Эта головоломка, получившая известность как проблема происхождения полинезийцев, возникла в XVIII веке как одна из величайших географических загадок человечества

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066 • In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans • Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England

A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile • The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is a hugely enjoyable journey around the north of England

Join Stuart Maconie as he clock off in the north of England • Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good time. After all, working and playing hard is its specialty, and Stuart Maconie is in search of what, exactly, this entails what it tells us about the North today • Following tip offs and rumour, Stuart takes trip to forgotten corners and locals' haunts. From the tapas bars of Halifax to the caravan parks of Berwick Upon Tweed, from a Westhoughton bowling green to Manchester's curry mile, via dog tracks and art galleries, dance floors and high fells, Stuart compares the new and old North, with some surprising results

The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to find and interview the nine remaining Moonwalkers in order to learn how their lives, and ours, were irrevocably changed by this surreal expedition • On the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing, Smith's powerful and gripping account of the most courageous adventure of the last century is re-released with a new chapter, detailing his fascinating interactions with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and Alan Bean in the years since publication • With thought-provoking meditations on the dramatic recent upswing in cosmic exploration, including astonishing encounters with the would-be astronaut-settlers of the Mars One project and the scientists leading the search for life in our solar system, this is an indispensable update to the definitive classic

In the remote snow-covered mountains near Tibet lies a community long thought to be a mere myth called Shambhala, or Shangri-La. Here, in this place, is knowledge that has been kept hidden for centuries, and an insight that can have a profound impact on the way each of us lives our lives. Your search for Shambhala begins with the words of a child and the vision of an old friend. Those slender clues and a powerful synchronicity will lead to Kathmandu, Nepal, and then to Lhasa, Tibet • Amid blowing snows and perilous mountains, you will meet the members of the secret Tibetan sect that guards mysterious legends - the verbal instructions handed down for centuries that describe the inner changes one must undergo before entering Shambhala • Finally, with Chinese Agents in pursuit, you will pass through regions where anger and compassion struggle for ascendancy, and arrive at a place where the stunning reality about human prayer-energy - our underdeveloped ability to increase the synchronicity in our lives and influence what will happen to us in the future - is revealed

‘For 30 years I was the voice of sport at The Times – but that’s enough about me. What matters is sport.’ • This is an autobiography from which the author, award-winning writer Simon Barnes, has been surgically removed. He has reported on six World Cups, seven Olympic Games, cricket on five continents and more than 20 Wimbledons, watching Diego Maradona, Usain Bolt, Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer at their peak. Along the way he had soul-revealing conversations with Ayrton Senna and sat on Desert Orchid • His journalist’s experience gives him perspective, until the addictive madness of sport takes over. Epic is a stunning mosaic of some of the greatest sporting moments in recent years, which build up to provide the reader with a better idea of what sport is for, what differentiates winners from losers, and reveals how sport teaches us how better to enjoy life

Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, sets off to eat his way around the world • But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin) • Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval pig slaughter and feast in northern Portugal, the Basque All Male Gastronomique Society in Saint Sebastian, rural Mexico with his Mexican sous-chef, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley and a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where he first ate an oyster as a child

"Конец пути. Путешествие по Британии в поисках мертвых" - удивительно донкихотский, очаровательный и вдохновляющий рассказ о путешествиях, в котором Джек Кук, автор всеми любимого путеводителя "The Treeclimbers Guide", разъезжает по Британским островам в потрепанном катафалке сорокалетней давности в поисках знаменитых - и не очень знаменитых - гробниц, надгробий и захоронений в других местах • По пути он отваживается проникнуть ночью на Хайгейтское кладбище, натыкается на останки валлийского друида, который популяризировал кремацию, и у него есть время посидеть и поразмышлять о непостижимом у могилы леди из Хой, жертвы самоубийства 18 века, чье тело было сохранено в почти идеальном состоянии на болоте в Шотландии. в котором она была похоронена

Цветущие и пышущие плодородием Волшебные земли в одночасье оказываются на грани катастрофы: извержение давно спящего вулкана превращает плодородные поля в кипящие озера лавы, кругом - поваленные деревья и непроходимые завалы