Sub-titled 'A Cultural and Practical Guide for All Business Professionals', this new edition updates and expands valuable cultural and practical information and is necessary reading for all professionals working with or in the Middle East and North Africa. It covers the practical impact of Islam on business, significant changes in recent years, understanding Saudi Vision 2030 and other key initiatives in the region, issues of particular importance to all businesswomen, and for men who might be working with Arab and Muslim businesswomen. It covers business etiquette from handshakes and business cards to dress codes, political and social dos and don'ts, how to communicate effectively including remote and virtual communication, and the practicalities from the initial visit to establishing productive working relationships, including opening an office. Includes overview of geography, demographics, Sunnis and Shi'a law and order, passport and visa, taboos, gift giving and what to do in free time in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Jerusalem, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. 306pp, paperback, charts and graphs.

Darwin's writings as an independent naturalist on the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 capture the natural world's beauty in his own sublime language. In a travel journal which takes us from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands, his descriptive powers are constantly challenged, but never once overcome. Here is his speculative mind at work, posing questions about the Earth's structure, animal forms, anthropology and the origins of life itself. 480 page reprint in paperback. Line illus.

Extremely beautiful silhouette artworks decorate the landscape pages of this compilation of one-of-a-kind buildings - fortresses, palaces, sacred sites, monuments, skyscrapers and cultural hotspots. We travel to the cultural capitals of Paris, Mexico City, Berlin, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul, Washington DC, Budapest and Rome. To seaside cities like Miami and Helsinki, fortress cities like Marrakech and Prague, Carcassonne and Jaipur, sacred cities like Jerusalem, Lhasa, and Cusco, skyscraper cities and visionary cities like Brasilia, Dubai, Barcelona, Timbuctu and Eutopia. Experts on architecture, design and travel, this journey through 50 skylines of the world's greatest cities is illustrated by Jenny Seddon in beautiful and atmospheric illustrations. There are quotes, short histories capturing the spirit of the places, its past and location. There are double page skyline maps, representations of famous and iconic buildings drawn at the same height and each captioned, quotes and bold headers for the buildings mentioned in the text. Includes maps, colour, a beautiful design and layout, 216pp.
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Welcome paperback reprint of a book first published in 1980 under the title 'The Zoo Quest Expedition: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia and Paraguay.' In 1954 a young David Attenborough had the opportunity of a lifetime, to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC in a new show called Zoo Quest. This is his story written in his inimitable voice of these travels. Staying with local tribes while searching for giant anteaters, Komodo Dragons in Indonesia and armadillos in Paraguay, he battles with cannibal fish, aggressive tree porcupines and escape-artist wild pigs to record the incredible beauty and biodiversity of these regions. The methods may be outdated now, but the fascination and respect for wildlife, the people and the environment are not. Now we can all travel vicariously with the old-fashioned adventurer and Britain's favourite naturalist who is an elegant and gently funny writer. See also the follow up 90905 Journeys to the Other Side of the World. 398pp in paperback reprint with 90 archive photos, three in colour.

A companion to 90904 Adventures of A Young Naturalist, the book was first published in 1981 under the title 'Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia', and in paperback in 2018 under the title 'Two Roads'. With some 90 photos, many colour plates and maps, we can travel vicariously with the pioneering naturalist Sir David Attenborough in his early days. Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels. From the land divers of Pentecost Island and the Sing-Sings of New Guinea to a Royal Kava ceremony on Tonga and the ancient art of the Northern Territory, this is a journey like no other. Alongside these remarkable creatures, Sir David encounters paradise birds, chameleons, Sifakas, pygmies and dancing birds, flamingos, tenrecs and mouse lemurs, the dog-headed man, babakoto, geese and goannas, painted caves and buffaloes, and the hermits of Borroloola. 'Every year for a decade, between 1954 and 1964, it was my great luck to go to the tropics and make natural history films.' 'I have left the accounts of these places and events essentially as I wrote them.' Written with his usual charm and generosity, he allows us to go along for the ride. 413pp, paperback. 90 illus. including colour plates.

The award-winning TV adventurer and travel writer's enthralling account of his 5,000 mile expedition around the Arabian Peninsula, from Iraq to Lebanon, in the winter of 2017. He gives a vivid picture of this ancient and beautiful but sad, war-torn and misunderstood region. Following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, the book is an insight into Levison Wood's most complex and daring expedition yet - a journey through 13 countries circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Honest, reflective and poignant, it an historical, religious and spiritual journey through some of the most harsh and beautiful environments on earth and exploring the Middle East through the lives, hearts and hopes of its people. Engaging and educational, we see things from a different perspective and the book is at times heart-warming and funny and makes you giggle, and at others you are sad by the weariness of the former paratrooper and major in the army reserves who must be tough as nails. 354pp, paperback, 16 pages of colour photos.

Witty and whimsical, The New Yorker wrote that the book 'leads us to some remarkable, unpredictable places, from the Alaskan wilderness to a supermarket parking lot in Southern Japan, from an old movie palace in Moscow to the underground histories of Northern Oklahoma.' From its opening journey into remote Alaska for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, a quest that culminates on the frozen sea between the United States and Russia, Brian Phillips's book leads us on a kaleidoscopic exploration of contemporary reality. He takes us to a sumo tournament in Japan where he becomes obsessed with the suicide of a famous writer, to the jungle in India where he considers the intertwined histories of conservation movements and man-eating tigers, to the studio of a great Russian animator, to a royal tour of the Yukon Territory with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and into the weird heart of America where he visits the gates of Area 51. Writing about the tiger he notes not its size or beauty but its capacity to disappear and this is typical of the personal content and sideways views in these big and powerful and beautiful essays. In places deeply poetic, well researched on our British royal family and all of his subjects. 331pp.

One of the most wrenching and scandalous love stories in all of literary biography, the author finely details the last productive years of Ernest Hemingway in a kaleidoscopic succession of relationships, passions, trips, editorial disputes, drinking binges and his contradictory nature set against the backdrop of northeast Italy. It is the remarkable story of his love affair with the city of Venice and the muse he found there. In the autumn of 1948, Hemingway was approaching the age of 50 and had not published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there met and fell in love with a striking young woman named Adriana Ivancich. What followed was a platonic love affair. He continued to visit her in Venice and she in turn came to Cuba while he wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'. This illuminating story examines the cost to a young woman of her relationship with a literary celebrity, and takes an intimate look at the fractured heart and changing art of Hemingway's secret desires, successes and depressive obstacles. 348pp in illustrated paperback.

A thrilling adventure book by a man who can not only row but can write about near-death experiences and the equipment failures, battling extreme fatigue, frightening storms and an ocean the consistency of liquid cement. Crossing the North Pacific in an open rowing boat was one of the world's last great firsts, and, on his third attempt at this most challenging of all open-ocean rowing feats, Mick Dawson was determined to make it. Storms, fatigue, intense hunger and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that he and fellow rower Chris Martin overcame during a back-breaking voyage of over six months. Finally on 13th November after 189 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes of rowing around the clock, facing the destruction of their small boat and near-certain death every mile of the way, they finally reached the iconic span of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It is a nail-biting true story of man versus nature. Former Royal Marine Commando Dawson takes on first the Atlantic and ultimately the North Pacific as he details how he and Chris propelled their fragile craft, stroke by stroke, for thousands of miles overcoming failure, personal tragedy and everything that nature could throw at them along the way. 'The Kuroshio, or Black Current, is a huge, powerful stream of warm water that sweeps up from the Philippines and flows past the coast of Japan... It's a magic carpet ride for an ocean rowing boat, as it can move at up to 7 knots in places... That gives you crucial miles between you and the early-season typhoons and storms...' 275pp, softback.

Despite her name, this intrepid explorer had a deep fear of fish, so to overcome her phobia she plots to travel to Thailand, learn to dive and swim with the biggest fish in the world, the mighty whale shark. Revealing, poignant, hilarious and horrific, it is a serious piece about conquering fears, personal courage, bereavement, family, the science of underwater exploration, decompression chambers and divers, and considerable knowledge about, well, fish. Studded with PADI open water manual quotations like 'No one but you can say what calls you to scuba diving', and References. 330pp.