A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.
THE RETURN OF ASTERIX, THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERHERO: The relaunch of the re-inked, re-coloured and re-designed Asterix series, now published in the correct order for the first time.
Corsica is a paradise for walkers. With colour maps and photographs, this guide gives details of three long-distance routes, Mare e Monti, Mare-Mare Nord and Mare-Mare Sud, which cross this magnificent island, together with 18 day-walks in prime spots, both in the rugged mountains of the interior and the softer southern coastal fringe.
Useful for visitors to Corsica who like to walk in the countryside, eat out or selfcater, this book features walks with restaurants/hotels en route and local recipes.
Corsica is an interesting mix, France with an Italian twist. There are many reasons to visit the island, quite apart from its lovely sunny weather. This guide to the island features information and ideas on what to do as well as what to see. It includes maps, and useful words and phrases.
On 15 May 1779, the second son of a prominent but impecunious Corsican family arrives at the gates of a royal military school at Brienne in the east of France. Not yet 10 years old, he barely speaks French.
Drawing upon the author's 30 years of experience, this book provides an examination of pastoralists and of the historic and contemporary interactions between pastoralists and states.
The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the US out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man.