An inspirational journey around the world, looking at Stephen's top 80 perennial leafy green vegetables. There are stories of the wild foraging traditions of indigenous people in all continents: from the Maori of New Zealand, the rich traditions of the Mediterranean people, high altitude foods with the Sherpas in the Himalayas and the wild aquatic plant that sustained Native American tribes with a myriad of foodstuffs and other products. Each vegetable...

Adapted from the classic book by Jules Verne, this adventure fiction book retells the classic story, Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg likes things done by the clock. And he expects things to go like clockwork when he accepts a wager to travel around the world in 80 days. Can Fogg return to England in time, or will he lose his fortune in the effort? This 32-page illustrated chapter book will appeal to kids who enjoy imaginative retellings...

An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain's best-loved travel writers. Born in London in 1919, Eric Newby was educated at St Paul's School. He began his travelling career in a perambulator commuting between Hammersmith Bridge and such seaside resorts as Frinton. In 1938 he persuaded his father to have him apprenticed to the four-masted Finnish barque Moshulu and, with camera in tow, sailed...

The authors of this biography were born in the 1920's and lived most of their childhood and much of the early war years in Portsmouth. They met in 1944 and were married in 1947. Since then they have travelled widely and together have enjoyed much pleasure in their lives and have overcome their difficulties as they have arisen. After a long and happy life together they now look forward to reaching their 60th wedding anniversary in 2007.

Around the World in 80 Tricks stars magicians Magical Bones and Pete Heat as they showcase their unique brand of trickery on the streets of Europe and Asia.

Passepartout, a young, well-studied monkey, dreams of exploring the world, but his overprotective mother is intent on keeping him safe at home. When he crosses paths with the smooth-talking con-artist Phileas Frog, he finds himself caught up in a bet worth millions; to travel around the world in a record-setting 80 days.

Phileas Fogg must be insane. No one has ever been able to circle the globe in only 80 days! Yet he's bet his friends that he'll do just that. Half of his fortune is one the line...and the outcome looks far from certain.