To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

To the Island of Tides: A Journey to Lindisfarne (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to - and through the history of - the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even survived Viking raids. Today the isle maintains its position as a space for retreat and spiritual

The Great Tapestry of Scotland: The Making of a Masterpiece (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy

The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left

Lindisfarne - The Cradle Island (Magnusson Magnus)(Paperback / softback)

Lindisfarne has captured the imagination of visitors and residents alike for decades. Also know as 'Holy Island', the rich and eventful history of the area is explored in great depth in this fascinating

In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World (Moffat Alistair)(Pevná vazba)

Highland Clans (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

The story of the Highland clans of Scotland is famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty, and valor for centuries, the clans met the beginning of their end at the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Alistair Moffat traces the history

Reivers - The Story of the Border Reivers (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback / softback)

From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England and Scotland, Borderers suffered at the hands of

Bear Island (MacLean Alistair)(Paperback)

Reissue of the classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location

The Night Before Morning (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

The Night Before Morning is a gripping, page-turning thriller based on an alternative version of events at the end of the Second World War in the vein of Robert Harris and John Buchan. Alistair Moffat has created a chilling post-1945 world where Britain has been occupied by the Nazi

The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

Hadrian's Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. In this book, based on literary

The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland (Moffat Alistair)(Paperback)

In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so.In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern borders were created. In doing so he brings to

Daughter of the Tide (Fleming Leah)(Paperback)

As children on the island of Phetray, Minn Macfee, a cottar's daughter, and Ewan Mackinnon, the Minister's son, are bound together by the accidental drowning of Ewan's sister. Ewan is blamed and Minn shunned. As the two children grow, they must go their separate ways grieving. Just before the

Song Beneath the Tides (Birch Beverley)(Paperback)

Set in Africa, the story of Kisiri, a sacred island holding terrible secrets from the past which impact on to the two teenagerss of the present, interweaving into a layered and evocative

Island Gardens: Havens of Beauty Around the British Isles (Bennett Jackie)(Pevná vazba)

From Tresco to Lindisfarne, Anglesey to Sark, travel around the British Isles and discover the most beautiful and extreme island gardens on this visually stunning tour. The British Isles consist of more than 6,000 islands scattered around the main islands of Britain and Ireland. More than 100 of

Lost Tide Warriors - Storm Keeper Trilogy 2 (Doyle Catherine)(Paperback / softback)

In the brilliant sequel to The Storm Keeper's Island, winner of the Books are My Bag Readers Award, Fionn Boyle finds himself at the heart of the fight for the island's survival. Fionn Boyle has been Storm Keeper of Arranmore for less than six months when thousands of terrifying Soulstalkers arrive

Force 10 from Navarone (MacLean Alistair)(Paperback)

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean's masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. Now reissued in a new cover style.The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have

To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (Horne Alistair)(Paperback)

To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle

In the Light of the Self: Adi Shankara and the Yoga of Non-dualism (Shearer Alistair)(Paperback)

Gardens of Mars - Madagascar, an Island Story (Gimlette John)(Paperback / softback)

A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar.'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling

Coast: Our Island Story: A Journey of Discovery Around Britain's Coastline (Crane Nicholas)(Paperback)

Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked, and played on this spectacular coast--from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers,

Orphans of the Tide (Murray Struan)(Paperback / softback)

Tides: A Very Short Introduction (Bowers David George)(Paperback)

The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a

Breakheart Pass (MacLean Alistair)(Paperback)

A magnificent tale of heart-stopping suspense from the highly acclaimed master of the genre. The Rocky Mountains, Winter 1873...One of the most desolate stretches of railroad in the West. Travelling along it is a crowded troop train, bound for the cholera-stricken garrison at Fort Humboldt. On

HMS Ulysses (MacLean Alistair)(Paperback / softback)

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century's greatest writers of action and suspense - an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War