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Off the Beaten Page - January 2008
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Off the Beaten Page is a topical mix of the latest in sport, adventure travel, travel picture books, travelogues and guides. We feature what's new on the shelf, a top ten bestseller list of Exclusive Books' outdoors titles and highlights to get you into your armchair or off your couch. |
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Get 20% off the two titles below when you buy them online. The price listed on the website is the discounted price. This offer is valid until 31 January 2008. (Terms) |
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A visual celebration that takes the reader on glorious visits to Africa's magnificent mountains: the holy ones, the prominent and fabled ones, and those we see and hear of all the time. Featured are the volcanic highlands of the Drakensberg/Maluti, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mount Kenya, Tsodilo Hills, Mount Sinai, the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, and of course Table Mountain, the jewel of South African tourism. Usually R214, Online price NOW R171.20   |
Sport tells the story of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century. In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. Topics covered include sports grounds, from stadiums to ice rinks, and the stories behind sporting rules, equipment, money and politics in sport. Usually R329, Online price NOW R263.20 |
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For many visitors, especially young ones, Beatrix Potter is the most interesting of the many Lake District writers. So many of her stories have clear Lake District locations and these form the basis of a series of short easy walks. For the first time, it is now possible to follow the adventures of Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Peter Rabbit and many others, actually walking in their footsteps and visiting their lakes and rivers, their houses and gardens.
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Give your dog the best start to life with Dr Scott Miller's guide to raising the perfect puppy. All your questions are answered and concerns quelled with this friendly and authoritative guide to puppy care, which also contains features on puppy psychology and debunking popular myths. Follow Puppy Parenting's clear chronological format and learn what to expect at each stage of your pet's development, as well as how you can deal with behavioural and health issues. |
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This Month's Top Seller Jake White's account of his years in charge of the Sprigbok rugby team makes interesting reading. |
Notable Mover The new edition of a favourite bird guide, distilled from the definitive 7th edition. |
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In evocative photographs and accompanying anecdotal text, Wild at Heart crisscrosses southern Africa, from the Kalahari Desert and Drakensburg Mountains to the Skeleton coast and Zambesi River, to reveal its diverse populations and wildlife and to highlight their often unacknowledged interdependence. Chris Johns's superb photographs of the animal and human inhabitants of the region are combined with Peter Godwin's passionate, lyrical stories.
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Here are 500 of the greatest journeys readers could ever make, by every conceivable means of transportation: on land, air and sea; by boat, bicycle, car, canoe, foot, helicopter or horseback. Take a felucca down the Nile River, rent a gulet off the Turkish coast, roll through the outback of Australia on the famous Ghan train, mountain bike in Transylvania, or simply take a scenic drive through the highlands of Scotland. |
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Ted Simon is the author of the classic travel book Jupiter's Travels. It documents his four-year journey round the world by motorbike, travelling through Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. A number-one bestseller in the late 1970s, it is still regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle and travel books ever written. In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted Simon decided to retrace his journey, and Dreaming of Jupiter is the result.
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Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and received a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. His autobiography describes his expeditions all over the world. |
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That's all folks! As always, please feel free to send your comments at the usual address. See you in February ... The Exclusive Books.Com Team |
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