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  • Lord of the Dance

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    Two Englishmen are travelling the dusty roads of 16th century India: Thomas Coryat, a physician and man of science, who comes to India to find a cure for his wife's leprosy in the famed medical library at Agra; and Brother Peter, known as Frog, who has come to convert the heathen to the True Faith. The friendship between them is full of strife, as is Akbar's Mogul Empire. Opposing armies are on ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Argonauts of the Scottish Isles

    Sea-kayaking Adventures

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas, we are transported to Jura, Scarba, the Garvellach Isles, Mull, Staffa, the Treshnish Isles, the Monach Isles, Iona, Lewis and the Uists, Skye, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Argonauts of the Scottish Isles

    Sea-kayaking Adventures

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas, we are transported to Jura, Scarba, the Garvellach Isles, Mull, Staffa, the Treshnish Isles, the Monach Isles, Iona, Lewis and the Uists, Skye, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sunlit Summit

    The Life of W. H. Murray

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a prisoner of war in Italy he wrote his first classic book, Mountaineering in Scotland, on rough toilet paper which was confiscated and destroyed by the Gestapo. The rewritten version was published in 1947 and followed by the, now, equally famous, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallen Angels: Stories of Los Gamines

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    From the outside most of us have caught brief but shocking glimpses of the street children of South America. In this collection of short stories Robin Lloyd-Jones shows us, vividly and authentically, the view from the inside looking out. We feel what it is like to be only ten years old and yet to prefer life on the street to the miseries of violence, abuse and poverty in the home.Exploited by the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallen Pieces of the Moon

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    A kayak trip in Greenland's Nuuk fjords through an area of amazing beauty Turreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for Fallen Pieces of the Moon, an account of a kayak trip along the west coast of Greenland, paddling about 150 miles of coastline in the Nuuk fjords area. Into the day ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Argonauts of the Western Isles

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    The west coast of Scotland casts a spell on anyone with a taste for adventure, a feeling for the past or a love of the wild, uninhabited places. With tidal currents of awesome power running between fascinating patterns of islands, it is a challenging place for any type of small craft. Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring here in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this enhanced new edition ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The New Frontier: Making a difference in later life

    by Robin Lloyd-Jones ...
    The New Frontier, from award-winning author Robin Lloyd-Jones, is a series of interviews with remarkable people over 70, all of them nominated for the annual Times-Sternberg award.The New Frontier documents the impact of different influences over their lives and provides readers with a unique viewpoint on how important it is that we make, and are seen to make, a valuable contribution to society at ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Expert Advice on Buying a Canoe or a Kayak

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  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

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    This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love ... Read more

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  • Into the Silence

    The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

    by Wade Davis ...
    A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expedtions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and ... Read more

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  • Edmund Hillary - A Biography

    The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest

    by Michael Gill ...
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