International Titles

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SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Travels in the Cloud Kingdom
Author: David Lang
ISBN: 0 9533493 7 3
Price: £29.95
Format: 200 pages large format (254mm x 254mm) hardback

Here’s the first coffee-table guide to this beautiful former Himalayan kingdom, which is now part of India. David Lang – amateur botanist, retired vet, idiosyncratic Englishman – has explored valleys not visited by Western naturalists for more than a hundred years. His vivid text brings us the history, geography and culture of Sikkim, together with colourful accounts of four eventful journeys in search of the region’s glorious flora and fauna. The book includes attractive maps, more than 300 colour photographs and a specially commissioned article by Mohan Pradhan on the forest orchids of Sikkim. It’s the essential companion for anyone intending to discover this lovely country and its people at first hand, but it’s also a great read for those who must reluctantly settle for enjoying it at a distance.

Sikkim’s snow-covered peaks, flower-filled meadows and gorgeously decorated Buddhist temples remain unknown even to many who live within easy reach of its borders. This book – the only English language guide to the history, geography and wildlife of this beautiful part of India – is a stunning introduction.

David Lang is the author of five previous books, including 'A Guide to the Orchids of Great Britain and Ireland’, ‘The Complete Book of British Berries’ and ‘The Wild Flower Finder’s Calendar’.

SCRAM FROM KENYA!
Author: James Franks
ISBNs: Hardback 0 9542587 5 4
               Paperback 0 9542587 4 6
Price: £25 hardback; £19.95 paperback
Format: 440 pages

Account of Kenya's development from a British colony to independence, covering Kenyatta's return and the Mau Mau uprising and including first-hand accounts of those (black and white) who lived through the experience. Maps and black and white photographs.

THE BOOMERANG POMMIES
Author: John Player
Price: £8.50
ISBN: 978 1 907242 00 7
Format: Paperback 92 pages; colour photographs

The bitter winter of 1962–63 set the seal on the decision by John Player, his wife Audrey and their four young children to try a new life halfway round the world in Australia, joining thousands of other hopefuls as emigrating ‘£10 Pommies’.

Here’s a story of adventure, tough times, hard-won triumphs – and an eventual return to England with two more, Australian-born children in tow. It will strike a chord with anyone who joined the ranks of the Boomerang Pommies, whether they stuck fast Down Under or returned, at last, to Blighty.