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Hilarisch reisverslag van een voetreis met een koelkast door Ierland. On his only prior visit to Ireland, songwriter/comic Tony Hawks had seen a man hitchhiking with a refrigerator. For years, he was wont to tell the tale during late-night drinking matches, and after one particularly heavy-duty night of partying, he awoke to find a bet scrawled pillow-side: a friend wagered 100 pounds that Hawks wouldn't travel Ireland for a month with a refrigerator at his side. Out of this stupid premise, a ridiculously amusing book was born. Quickly discovered by the Irish media, the thumbing Englishman finds that he and his box fridge are elevated to celebrity status, and there's no dearth of rides, places to stay or goofy people to meet, from kings to spoons players to locals who take his fridge surfing. As insightful about the strange inner workings of Hawk's mind as it is about charming peculiarities of Irishmen--it's doubtful that Hawks would have been similarly embraced by Germans, Italians, …

Always Prime 1 Studio is proud to present our first collaboration with Shumi Arts, a hyper-realistic statue maker based in South Korea. Introducing our first entry to the highly coveted Platinum Masterline, the 1/4 scale PMLHP-01 Severus Snape from the Harry Potter movie franchise! Severus Snape is the Potions Master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Portrayed by Alan Rickman, Professor Snape's enigmatic, mysterious character is widely regarded as one of the standouts from the movie series, earning him a very special place in the hearts of many fans worldwide. The artists from Prime 1 Studio and Shumi Arts have come together to meticulously craft 150 statues with the utmost level of expertise, bringing you the most lifelike statue of Alan Rickman's Master of Potions. Standing at 21 inches tall, Snape has a stern look, wand in hand. The artists at Shumi Arts have proven time and time again that they are the best at what they do, and it really shows in the detail of this …

A Vulture Landscape is more than just a book about vultures, in the same way that these majestic flyers are more than just birds. Vultures are a crucial part of many of the world's ecosystems, and without these specialist environmental cleansers the ecosystems wouldn't work properly. A calendar year in the lives of these gargantuan raptors is explored as they live, breed, feed and fly with effortless ease across the skies of the vulture landscape that is Extremadura in central Spain.There are four species of vulture in Europe, and a fifth that is becoming more of a regular visitor as its own global population plummets. The serious conservation issues faced on a day-to-day basis by these species, and their relatives spread across the globe, are explored, issues that in many cases threaten their very survival. However, this book is a celebration of the vulture and the landscape in which it reigns. Using the latest science, his keen eye and his passion for the birds themselves, the autho…

Een fascinerend boekwerk met de grootste mythes, leugens en blunders die ooit op kaart zijn verschenen. In een luxe hardcover uitgave met mooie stofomslag. The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers. Sometimes the stories are almost impossible to believe, and remarkably, some of the errors were still on display in maps published in the 21st century. Throughout much of the 19th century more than 40 different mapma…

The Fourth Dimension Are you ready for a major change in your life? Then you're ready for The Fourth Dimension. The Fourth Dimension is a story about the invisible world around us, which determines success. It is a book that provides insight into the laws that apply in the fourth dimension and that are the magic of life. Desire, reality, and chance intersect in this story, just as in life itself. Coincidences play an important role in our lives. In this book, you will learn to recognize and then direct that element of chance. Go on a trip with Nick Larson, a successful stockbroker who ends up in debt restructuring as a result of the financial crisis. After this major event, he goes looking for the truth and comes across the fourth dimension. Hans Peter Roel (1964) knows what life is like under high voltage. He sees how we in our highly developed society are slowly exhausting Mother Earth's resources. He has written this book in order to correct that and give people insight into the fou…

300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-fist century. The book's unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation. Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine Maury and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cu…

Nori Jemil's ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when to take them. It guides you to becoming a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering all the technical knowhow needed. Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the main areas of travel imagery, from people and landscape to architecture and adventure.   Bite-size advice on how to get the best from your camera is contextualised throughout the book, so you learn as you go. Travel photography has exploded across the world thanks to the huge leap in quality of both mobile phone cameras and bridge cameras, as well as the ease of public posting on social media. Award-winning travel photographer Nori Jemil has been riding the wave of these advances and has created a 'how to' guide with a difference.   Her book is not an attempt to replicate other reference works on the subject, top-loading technical information and …

A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places.  'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley  'With tremendous verve and determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world. Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid and thoughtful tale' Ted Simon, author of Jupiter's Travels  'A tale of delight and exuberance - and one I'd thoroughly recommend. Bolingbroke-Kent proves a great travelling companion - compassionate, spirited and with a sharp eye for human oddity' Benedict Allen, author of Edge of Blue Heaven and Into the Abyss  'A transformative journey that gripped me from the very first page' Alastair Humphreys, author of The Boy Who Biked the World and Microadventures 'Remote, mountainous and forbidding, here shamans still fly through the night, hidden valleys conceal portals to other worlds, yetis leave footprints in the snow, spirits and demons abound, and the gods are appeased by…

Mongolia is a huge landlocked country in the centre of Asia. It encompasses a diverse range of habitats including forests, vast treeless plains, the Altai Mountains and of course the Gobi Desert, and it is becoming an increasingly popular destination for birders. For dozens of steppe species and many others, Mongolia really is the place to go. This new field guide provides full details of every species to be found in the country. Birds of Mongolia, written by Chris Leahy and Gomboo, Mongolia's most famous ornithologist, follows traditional field guide design with plates arranged opposite the text. Detailed maps – a mapping feat never before attempted for Mongolia – accompany the species entries. Birds of Mongolia is an indispensible guide to the country's avifauna; no visiting naturalist can be without it. Gombobaatar Sundev is a well-known ornithologist, bird conservationist and mentor in Mongolia. He has been working as a professor at the National University of Mongolia and presiden…

Reise Know-How is een duitstalige praktische reisgids voor alle leeftijden, boordevol informatie over accommodatie van budget tot luxe, vervoer en plaatsbeschrijvingen. Kenmerk : brede cultuur en achtergrondinformatie, bondig geschreven. Der Reiseführer für Dänemarks Ostseeküste von Reise Know-How - umfassend, engagiert und aktuell: Dänemarks Ostseeküste begeistert Besucher mit kilometerlangen, kindgerechten Sandstränden, beeindruckender Natur und gemütlichen, kleinen Städten. Unser Autor Thilo Scheu stellt nicht nur die Märcheninsel Fünen vor, sondern nimmt die Leser auch mit auf eine Schlosstour rund um das südjütländische Sønderborg. Lebendige Geschichte in zeitgemäßen Museen, historische Königsburgen und rekonstruierte Wikingersiedlungen sind weitere Höhepunkte einer Reise an die dänische Ostseeküste, die viel Entspannung und frische Seeluft verspricht. Die UNESCO-Welterbestätten in Christiansfeld und Jelling sind dabei ebenso einen Besuch wert wie Dänemarks zweitgrößte Stadt Aarh…