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Huw Lewis-Jones

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Kakajú medvede v lese?


Originálny a humorný sprievodca po svete medveďov Všetci poznáme medvede, ale mnohí z nás si neuvedomujú, že hoci sú veľké a huňaté, sú to divé zvieratá, ktoré potrebujú našu pomoc. Táto kniha nás zavedie hlboko do lesov aj na zasnežené hory, kde budeme môcť pozorovať osem neuveriteľných druhov medveďa v prirodzenom prostredí. Zistíme, prečo medvede tak veľa kakajú, ako sa môžeme vyhnúť tomu, aby nás medveď zožral, a čo môžeme robiť, aby sme medvede chránili. Tento netradičný turistický sprievodca prekypuje faktmi, zábavou a všemožnými informáciami o medveďoch. Vďaka nemu deti môžu zistiť, aké je pracovať so zvieratami v divočine, a objavia ohrozené druhy. Knižka doplnená milými farebnými ilustráciami je priam stvorená pre všetkých milovníkov divých zvierat a pre tých, čo túžia po živote vo voľnej prírode. HUW LEWIS JONES je vedúci výprav, prírodovedec a oceňovaný autor. Napísal historicky zamerané knihy o fotografii, ľadovcoch, horách a mapách. Venuje sa výskumu polárnych oblastí, vyučuje prírodné vedy na britskej Falmouthskej univerzite a v divočine sa stretol s mnohými medveďmi. SAM CALDWELL je ilustrátor a býva v škótskom Glasgowe. Študoval maľbu na Edinburskej vysokej škole výtvarných umení a ilustroval niekoľko kníh pre deti. Ilustroval Sam Caldwell. Pre čitateľov od 6 rokov Z anglického originálu preložila Veronika Zitta.
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11,61 € 12,90 €

Mountain Heroes


Come face to face with those who have spent their lives at altitude: explorers and pioneering travellers, intrepid ice climbers and extreme skiers, ecologists, photographers and film-makers. The weathered faces of black-and-white portraiture from the world's leading collections are displayed alongside modern photographs by a group of leading adventure photographers such as Glen Denny and Cory Richards, Gordon Wiltsie and Martin Hartley. Among those featured are Sir Edmund Hillary, George Mallory, Reinhold Messner, Tenszing Norgay, Galen Rowell, Edward Whymper, Steph Davis, Maurice Herzog, Leo Holding, Adam Watson and Kit Deslauriers.
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40,38 € 42,50 €

The Writers Map


Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that they use in writing. For some, making a map is absolutely central to the craft of shaping and telling their tale. A writer's map might mean also the geographies they describe, the worlds inside books that rise from the page, mapped or unmapped, and the realms that authors inhabit as they write. Philip Pullman recounts a map he drew for an early novel; Robert Macfarlane reflects on his cartophilia, set off by Robert Louis Stevenson and his map of Treasure Island; Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe; Reif Larsen writes about our dependence on GPS and the impulse to map our experience; Daniel Reeve describes drawing maps and charts for The Hobbit trilogy of films; Miraphora Mina recalls creating `The Marauder's Map' for the Harry Potter films; David Mitchell leads us to the Mappa Mundi by way of Cloud Atlas and his own sketch maps. And there's much more besides. Amidst a cornucopia of images, there are maps of the world as envisaged in medieval times, as well as maps of adventure, sci-fi and fantasy, maps from nursery stories, literary classics, collectible comics - a vast range of genres.
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37,00 € 38,95 €

The Sea Journal - Seafarers' Sketchbooks


The sea has been an endless source of fascination, at once both alluring and mysterious, a place of wonder and terror. The Sea Journal contains first-hand records by a great range of travellers of their encounters with strange creatures and new lands, full of dangers and delights, pleasures and perils. In this remarkable gathering of private journals, log books, letters and diaries, we follow the voyages of intrepid sailors, from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands, as they set down their immediate impressions of all they saw. They capture their experiences while at sea, giving us a precious view of the oceans and the creatures that live in them as they were when they were scarcely known and right up to the present day. In a series of biographical portraits, we meet officers and ordinary sailors, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers. A handful of contemporary mariners provide their thoughts on how art remains integral to their voyaging lives. Often still bearing the traces of their nautical past, the intriguing and enchanting sketches and drawings in this book brilliantly capture the spirit of the oceans and the magic of the sea.
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36,05 € 37,95 €

Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands


'Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of Crusoes continues' Huw Lewis-Jones A new atlas of imaginary islands conjured up by an international gathering of illustrators, including work by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Bill Bragg, Marion Deuchars, Chris Riddell, Maisie Paradise Shearring, Herve Tullet, Ausra Kiudulaite and more. Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that is so alluring, and why do so many people find these self-contained worlds completely irresistible? Utopia and Atlantis were islands, and islands have captured the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries. Venetian sailors were the first to make collections of them by drawing maps of those they visited in their isolari - literally the 'island books'. Then in 1719 Daniel Defoe published his tale of a castaway on a desert island, Robinson Crusoe, one of the first great novels in the history of literature and an instant bestseller. Defoe's tale combined the real and the imagined and transformed them into a compelling creative landscape, establishing a whole literary genre and unleashing the power of an island for storytelling. To celebrate the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe's publication, a truly international range of leading illustrators imagine they too have been washed up on their own remote island. In a specially created map they visualize what it looks like, what it's called and what can be found on its mythical shores. In a panoply of astonishingly creative and often surprising responses, we are invited to explore a curious and fabulous archipelago of islands of invention that will beguile illustrators, cartographers and dreamers alike.
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30,35 € 31,95 €

Bad Apple


In this hilarious story about a really bad apple by award-winning author and polar explorer Huw Lewis Jones, a series of simple rhymes is transformed into a sequence of events that will have readers splitting their sides with laughter. As one silly scenario unfolds after the other, a common piece of fruit shows readers what he's really made of by making life miserable for Pear, Pea, Cat, Spud and Spoon, among others. In a very dark twist at the end, he receives his comeuppance...
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14,20 € 14,95 €