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Fun and nasty, a challenging and provoking read that explores and explodes the concept of the powerful woman – and what it takes, and means, to be one.
This exciting illustrated guide to the world’s largest river and its surrounding rainforest is packed with compelling facts about South America’s wildlife, people, geography and history. Take a journey through South America along the winding Amazon River, spotting tree frogs, piranhas, snakes and...
There is so much to explore in the Amazon! Readers are taken on an adventure through the Amazon rainforest to learn about the lush plants and beautiful animals, deforestation, and rainforest conservation in this fascinating nonfiction reader that features striking photographs and riveting facts.
A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader’s History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and...
A reissue of Willard Price’s classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom. Amazon Adventures is the first in the series.‘No one has ever come out alive’Hal and Roger Hunt crash-land into the middle of a pioneering expedition to the unmapped regions of the greatest jungle on earth- the Amazon....
It is the widest, largest river on planet Earth, surrounded by deep rainforest and home to an incredible array of wildlife. Welcome to the Amazon. Take a journey through South America along the winding Amazon River, spotting tree frogs, piranhas, snakes and tropical insects along the way. Where...
Amazon Adventure features animals and plants that live in the rain forest. It also explores the ways people use rain forest resources.
The first in Arthur Ransome’s charming, thrilling and inspirational series. The book that has set generations of children and their parents afloat, on the high seas of the Lake District.‘Swallows and Amazons for ever!‘Rediscover this classic tale of adventure.The Walker children – also known as...
A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. C’ndido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of...
Visit one of the most incredible natural environments in this picture-packed guide, to discover the Amazon’s plants and wildlife, and its people. Become an eyewitness to the fascinating species that live in the depths of the Amazon rainforest, in this picture-led reference guide that will take you...
For the Walker children, sailing the boat Swallow to an island for a camping trip is a fantastic adventure. But soon they find themselves under attack from the fierce pirates of the Amazon, Nancy and Peggy. And so begins the battles, alliances and discoveries in a summer like no other.
The ultimate children’s classic – long summer days filled with adventure. Newly re-issued using Ransome’s original illustrations to celebrate the 80th anniversary of publication.The ultimate children’s classic – long summer days filled with adventure.John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat,...
Learn all about the Amazon rainforest – from the plants and animals that live there to the harmful effects of logging – in this low-level phonics reader.Part of Reading Stars Phonics – our structured programme of 133 fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK...
The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent...
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies- produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media- constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in...
The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It makes up more than half of all tropical rainforest areas on Earth. The Amazon Rainforest is home to groups of South American indigenous peoples, who have lived there for hundreds of years. More species of wildlife can be found in the Amazon...
Friendship, resourcefulness, adventures! Here’s the classic tale of two families of children who band together against a common foe: an uncle who claims he’s too busy for his nieces. The Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger) are on school holiday in the Lake District and are sailing a...
Arthur Ransome’s famous and much-loved children’s classic is brought thrillingly to life in Helen Edmundson’s wonderfully theatrical adaptation, with ‘delightfully catchy and often witty’ (Telegraph) songs by Neil Hannon of The Divine ComedyWhen John, Susan, Titty and Roger are granted their wish...
Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated) Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have...