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Our new 2nd edition of Walk! Lanzarote builds on the reputation of our 1st edition with more walks and comprehensive updating so that it caters for the needs of the increasing number of people who would like to combine some walking with a holiday on the 'Fire' island. Our 2009 research included walking every day, confirming and updating routes from the 1st edition and finding new routes to be included in the 2nd edition. Walk! Lanzarote explodes the myth that there is nowhere worth walking on the island as we range through strolling on coastal promenades, walking across 'alpine' style meadows (yes, really), striding over the lava sea, dropping into volcanoes, sitting on 'high mountain seats' - quite simply you will be amazed at the wide variety of stunning landscapes the 'Fire' island has to offer the adventurous leisure walker. Lanzarote is all good news for walkers. Coastal routes have been completed or improved, none more than our Coastal Discovery from Puerto del Carmen. Our new routes include extending our Pena del Rubicon route across the coastal desert to overlook Las Salinas and on to La Hoya bus stop from where we can bus back to Playa Blanca.Completely new are Barranco Malpaso from Haria, Caldera Blanca, and Montana Corona; all of them must do routes for Lanzarote afficionados and new visitors alike.Walk! Lanzarote is produced to our highest standards with walk summary and rating, fully detailed description, frequent timings so you can check your progress, compass directions, and gps waypoints for all country routes. Each country route has full 1:40,000 scale colour mapping and gps waypoints dedicated to that route, while our Teguise town walk uses a large scale street plan. All routes are illustrated with colour photos. Culture and agriculture are included along with a 'Thingy' section on modern art, including new 'Thingys' discovered during our research plus a well known artist producing works in the 'Thingy' mould! We've taken advice and have substantially increased the 'Access by Bus' sections for each walk and include extensive bus information. Quite simply the best book of Lanzarote that you can buy - that's what we said of the 1st edition, but now the best book just got a whole lot better. ... Read more

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A canary's owner imagines all the adventures the bird would have if he were set free from his cage. ... Read more

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Contains a fully updated 1:40,000 scale map of La Gomera incorporating thousands of updates from our ground surveys completed in December 2003. Topographical map with all the walking routes from "Walk! La Gomera" highlighted. Printed on a special high density polymer base using 100% oxygenation inks to produce a Super-Durable Map that is waterproof and super-tough to give years of use in the toughest of outdoor conditions. On the reverse are large scale street plans of San Sebastian, Valle Gran Rey, and Playa Santiago; plus GPS Waypoint lists for the 35 walking routes highlighted on the map. ... Read more

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Here we find Simon T. McTwill, an operatic canary, and his best friend Barklee the dog arriving in Paris at the Gare du Nord.Tired and confused, they are rescued by their soon-to-be friend and guide, Ratatouille, an egglant-loving Parisian sewer rat.Together, the three explore the glories of France where Simon fulfills a lifelong ambition to sing at the Paris Opera.Leaving the city, they continue their adventures in the countryside with one adventure after another. ... Read more

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A "must" for any family with children bound for vacation
Simon is a bird and Barklee is a dog. Together these two great friends embark upon a wonderful adventure traveling to France and meeting a series of remarkable and memorable characters. David Scherer's delightfully entertaining text is laced with factual information about France, while Kara Richardson's superbly executed artwork is a perfect support for the storyline. Simon & Barklee In France is an enthusiastically recommended addition to school and community library collections -- and is a "must" for any family with children bound for vacation or business travel in France! ... Read more

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Tenerife Bus & Touring Map 2010 Edition including the latest updates along with details of the 'must ride' Santa Cruz to La Laguna train/tram - known locally as the 'Tren'. This is a fully detailed up-to-date map of Tenerife designed for bus users and car drivers. Large scale street plans of Los Cristianos, Las Americas, Puerto de la Cruz, Los Gigantes, Costa del Silencio, Golf del Sur and Santa Cruz are on the reverse along with masses of bus information including the new Bono-Via, replacing the old Bono-Bus, discount bus tickets used on Titsa buses; saving up to 50% on the already pocket-money fares. Tenerife island has been drawn at a scale of 1:100,000 with particular emphasis on navigation by road and Titsa bus routes. Comprehensive place name index makes finding your destination quick and easy. Tenerife Bus & Touring Map is your best choice for exploring the stunning landscapes of the Island of Eternal Spring. 2010 edition has a proper logical map fold for easy use - the only criticism of our earlier edition is now solved. ... Read more

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Contains 35 fully detailed walking routes covering Tenerife's best walking regions by the Tenerife specialists. This work provides a 1:25,000 scale map sections for each walking route plus the pinpoint accuracy of GPS Waypoints. All routes researched in the last six months to ensure that everything is fully up to date. Walking routes are grouped into North (Orotava Valley), Central High Altitude (Las Canadas, El Portillo and Paisaje Lunar), West (Masca/Santiago del Teide) and South (includes routes in Walk Tenerife South). It provides a total of 100 hours actual walking time (at David and Ros' quite quick walking pace) covering 348 kilometres, plus notes for Geranium Walk, Mount Teide, Siete Canadas and Montana Blanca. All walking routes are rated for 'Effort', 'Time', 'Distance', 'Ascents & Descents' and 'Refreshment' opportunities. Quite simply the most 'Up to Date' detailed walking book that you can buy for Tenerife. ... Read more

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New updated 2010 4th edition of La Gomera Tour & Trail Map including new walking routes by Dept of Environment as well as all of the walking routes from Walk! La Gomera guidebook are clearly highlighted.You get the latest topographical map of La Gomera so that whichever guidebook you choose this map is your ideal companion. ... Read more

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Lanzarote Tour & Trail Map 2nd edition Map-Paper versionA" covers this big island at a scale of 1:40,000 resulting in the most detailed and toughest map of Lanzarote that you can buy. All the country walking routes from our newWalk! Lanzarote2nd editionA" (published August 2009) are clearly detailed. Detailed updating for the 2nd edition includes mapping Puerto del Carmen's new golf course and inner bypass, Playa Blanca's urban/incomplete development, as well as the new walking routes. We have also included a full island map of La Graciosa at 1:40,000 scale for those people adventuring or staying on the island.Getting such a large island onto one map sheet at 1:40,000 scale means that we have had to split the island into a North-East section on one side and a South-West section on the other side, with a generous overlap between the sections. At 1:40,000 scale the level of detail we can include on the map is awesome compared to any other map of the island that you can buy. In addition to the usual high level of detail on our Tour & Trail Maps we have introduced special Lava fills to define the lava fields and a Zocos fill to define the famous La Geria region.The result is the definitive map of Lanzarote. Our Map-Paper version is printed on top quality map paper by Britain's top map printer. If you require a tougher map then consider acquiring our Super-Durable version. ... Read more

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Tenerife road map at 1:100,000 scale with large scale street plans of the main resorts on the reverse by the authors who are resident on Tenerife. This map includes: place name index, distance chart, and the map is GPS compatible with 5-kilometre grid. ... Read more

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La Gomera really is somewhere special. Breathtaking landscapes, idyllic Canary Islands climate, ancient laurel forest, massive gorges, high ridges, outstanding flora, unspoilt villages; this is perhaps as close to paradise as it is possible to get. Such a special island deserves only the best, so no compromises have been made. Routes have been walked, and re-walked, until we are satisfied that we have the best route descriptions possible. Our "No Compromise" research policy means that you can embark on the adventures contained in "Walk! La Gomera" confident that every route has been researched to the highest standards. Contains 35 main walking routes plus numerous short walk and stroll options. Each route has: walking route summary including ratings for Effort, Time, Distance, Ascents/Descents, Refreshments and Vertigo risk; fully detailed walk description including frequent timings to check your progress and aid navigation; short walk and stroll alternatives; full colour 1:40,000 scale map of the route; GPS Waypoints (grid references) for every key point on the route; and full colour island map and regional Walk Locator maps. There are some easy routes.There are some awesome routes. Some routes have vertiginous sections. With Charles Davis's excellent descriptions you will know which routes are for you, and all of them are a true adventure in paradise. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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an okay book
Although this book was not as interesting as many of Cronin's other books(The Citadel, The Green Years, etc.), it was pretty good. It tells the story of a doctor accused of malpractice who went on a cruise in the canaryislands to calm down and escape publicity. On the boat, he meets the young,beautiful, Mary Fielding, and they obviously fall in love. He is latergiven a chance to save her life and be the wonderful doctor he always was.The plot is rather boring and predicatable, but the characterization isexcellent. All the people he meets on the boat are very interesting andthat is the strong point of the book. I recomend this book to anyone whohas enjoyed Cronin's other book, but don't expect anything too wonderful.

A departure less exotic than simply odd
The change of scene novel seemed to be a staple among the mainstream novelists of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly those who hovered, as Cronin did, in the nether regions between the merely popular novelist and the"literary" novelist.In Grand Canary, we see some of the stockdevices of Cronin novels--a driven young doctor, the caustic impact ofpassion, the struggle for redemption.Yet, instead of the outward strugglethrough medical school and inward struggles amid doubt, Catholicism andProtestantism which usually informs a Cronin novel, we are here exposed toa trip to the Canary Islands.This is rather a stark contrast from theIrish and English scenes more familiar to Cronin readers, and the book'satmospherics seek to invoke a certain "other-island-worldiness". One cannot help but note that Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh in this erawere both using exotic locale as a canvass for resolution of a spiritualinward conflict, and it is quite safe to say that this is nowhere near assatisfying in evoking an exotic place as, say, Greene's Power and theGlory.But for those of us who enjoy a Cronin novel, such academicdiscussion is of secondary importance--the real question is whether thenovel is a good read.The answer is simple: Cronin's use of locale andcertain "mystical" elements detracts from the reader's interestin his characters.We have precognitive dreams, yellow fever, destinedencounters of newly enchanted lovers, a missionary gone astray in a firstexposure to the pleasures of the flesh, and the victim of unrequited lovemartyring herself in the name of familial duty.It's all rather like aparody of a Somerset Maugham tropical clime short story, except that wehave Cronin's idiosyncratic faith-based vision rather than Maugham'sskepticism putting the puppets through their paces.The novel is by nomeans a bad read--some of the characters are quite intriguing, if a bit"set piece" in design.But the plot devices and cardboard sideplayers are less than we expect from Cronin, and perhaps less than weexpect from ourselves when we seek out light fiction to read. ... Read more

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I Don't Know If That's Good or Bad

Who doesn't know what is?

The author, Dave Hughes, ruminating as to whether the addition of a new fly that caused him to exceed the capacity of his beloved single small stream box is or isn't beneficial.

Seeing that this is how Trout from Small Streams ends, the reader is left pondering a question that takes on an almost existential significance.

I don't know if that's good or bad.

This time it's me, the reviewer, wondering if this fly fishing business doesn't tend to become just a bit heavier than it ought to or needs to be. Or perhaps I'm just reacting to the devilish complexity of it all...

Anyway, Hughes has written a generally pleasant, if at times overly weighty tome on the particular attractions of smallish fish in modest waters. In a competitive world where, more often than not, size really does matter, there's something refreshingly counterintuitive about this.

While the title, "Trout from Small Streams" suggests that the fish have the center stage, in fact, they are of secondary importance; the book is really an exposition of intricate technique as to how to catch them. At times this can become quite esoteric as in the following discussions of leaders: "Next in importance are spare tippet spools in 3X, 4X, 5X, and 6X, along with a couple of store-bought leaders 7 ½ feet long tapered to 3X. That gives me the options of fishing a stout 3X leader about length of the rod I carry, for size 8 and 10 flies, or, far more often, adding a 2-foot tippet of 4X and fishing a leader just that much longer than the rod I use on small streams, for size 12 and 14 flies".

Sometimes Hughes gets a bit carried away as in this description of experimenting with a simple yarn indicator for nymph fishing, "I merely stripped a few feet of line from the reel, drew it out beyond the rod tip, held the hook while I danced a bit of line into the air above the gravel, like a snake charmer elevates a cobra, then flicked the rod towards the upstream end of the pool and let the fly go at the same time".

If, at this moment, you find yourself with bated breath on the edge of your chair, then you can be sure this book's for you.

Nothing new here
I think this book is well written but there really is not anything new here.The conclusion of the book is pretty simple.There are fish in thise hills and the are not that selective but you have to approach carefully.So if you are expecting to get a lot of new information abot trout fishing it is not in this book. Most likely will confirm what you already know.

A Nice Little Book
I really enjoyed this book and found it be informative, but written in a non technical and casual style that makes for easy reading. I do recommend the book to others because it is so well written, however where it fails is in the lack of photographs. Dave Hughes is also a very successful photographer so why not include some photos of the beautiful places he has fished and of the large trout he has taken from some of these streams? Adding some nice colour photos would have made this book a ten out ten for me.

Not for everyone.That's not bad.
Dave Hughes is one of the most versatile, and best, writers in the fly fishing field.When he writes for beginners he explains the basics clearly without insulting the reader's intelligence.When writing about more advanced techniques he does so as someone who's been where you are.This book is one of the latter.If you are an absolute neophyte or if you are the type of person who learns best from photos, charts and diagrams, this book is probably not for you.Inside the jacket there is not a single photo or illustration to be found.But, if you already know the basic casts and knots and you appreciate clear, cogent prose and you wish to fish streams that hardly ever see another angler, there are precious gems to be mined here.The author doesn't make specific recommendations about equipment or techniques for you.Instead, he gives you a glimpse into what has and hasn't worked for him in the hope that you can learn from his experiences.Small streams usually don't yield record size trout, but the challenges of fishing flies on tight, brush lined flows make every fish you capture (and hopefully release) a trophy. When you've determined that you must get "up close and personal" with the trout in all those those no-name streams that most fisherman barely take notice of in their daily travels this book will give you a realistic assessment of the obstacles and rewards you should expect.More important, it introduces you to some methods that should help you to overcome those obstacles, thereby increasing your chances of success.

SIMPLY A GREAT BOOK
This is a awesome book for anyone who loves to fish small waters or is thinking they might want to start. It is written in a very personal style and you can learn through the authors lessons as you will your own.
Great information about types of flies to use and how to use them, recommendations on how to carryyour gear, what type of flies to carry, rod types and actions msot suitable and so on and so forth. One of the best books I have read, and is in my top two on the subject of flyfishing small streams. ... Read more

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