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Hardy, Peter

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The Good Skiing Guide, 1997: The Essential Guide to What's What and Where's Where in 500 Ski Resorts Across Five Continents

Eyston, Felice

Sports & Outdoors

Overlook Books

Geology of Somerset

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Hobnob Press

Field Guide to Butterflies of the Philippines

Siri Scientific Press

Following two and a half years of misadventure in rich, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia (now impoverished, African-controlled Zimbabwe). At the age of nineteen, having travelled 8,000 miles by liner and train from Britain, the author became a&#8239;technician&#8239;in the Rhodesian Roads Department but after six months he escaped his impending confinement in a road construction gang caravan containing a bedsit-cum-laboratory! Transferring to a remote research farm in the hot, dry Lowveld; he lived in a bungalow for two years, shared with three other technicians and pampered by African servants. His scientific work was interrupted by elephants, deadly snakes and sexual entanglements! The author's work, like the duties of the rest of the Rhodesian Whites involved the help of Africans. Their co-operation was needed in the home, on the farm and in the laboratory and other workplaces. Without it, Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s would have been unable to function. The replacement of Rhodesia by Zimbabwe resulted in the exodus of the Whites. Denied their know-how Zimbabwe descended into chaos.

The Gathering Storm: Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s before Zimbabwe

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Grosvenor House Publishing Limited

A student place at Cape Town University was an opportunity to escape from my lonely laboratory technician post and army service in Southern Rhodesia. A two-thousand-mile circuitous hitchhike route through South Africa including a veterinary caravan across Bechuanaland, now Botswana, bought me to Cape Town. Unlikely student accommodation was in an attractive Edwardian hotel among largely non university guests. The walk to the university lectures in Geography, Geology and Botany involved a steep climb. This was up the lower slopes of Devils Peak, a three-thousand-foot mountain. Besides academic work I joined the university mountaineering club. Excursions were shared with ladies from the hotel and university. While bartending, where the Indian Ocean met the South Atlantic Ocean, I met a holidaying Rhodesian policeman. He told me about the misdemeanours of my American boss who suddenly left as head of the Rhodesian agricultural research station. Plying the detective with brandy I got the whole story. With my savings running out I got a laboratory technician post with the Anglo-American Corporation in Johannesburg. Work involved the chemical and physical analysis of the components of explosives. Dynamite was used for blasting rocks in the gold mines. At weekends I was exploring in and around Joburg with an engineer colleague. We would make up a foursome with two young ladies and enjoy boating and barbecues in the city's glorious parks. Additionally I gyrated between two girlfriends, daughters of senior colleagues at my place of work. My work was inducted by a plain Jane who used sexual innuendoes to gain my attention. "Jane" distracted me so that I made a calculation error, this resulted in interrogation by the chief chemist. After several months at the dynamite factory I was granted a three-week holiday. I hitchhiked alone to Nyasaland, now Malawi. I arrived in the middle of a revolution and was chased by police for being out during a curfew .This was on a date with two girls and my lift driver. In Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, another lift took me to a safari lodge in the Luangwa Game Reserve. Here we walked among the wild animals protected by two black rangers with powerful rifles .A visit to the Victoria Falls followed, wreathed by rainbows. After a year I decided to return to Britain. I aimed to gain a degree at London University while fully employed. I met a Jewish tailor from London at a youth hostelling club in Joburg. We decided to hitchhike to London across Africa and Europe.

Escape from Southern Rhodesia before Zimbabwe: A Londoner in 1950s South Africa

Want to know the best place to go skiing or snowboarding this year? The Great Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2006 was written by leading experts in ski travel, and is a detailed insider guide to ski and snowboard resorts worldwide. The authors give their uncompromising opinion on the best destinations among 6,000 resort in seventy-five countries, covering the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Readers will find in-depth descriptions of ski areas and recommendations for the best ski and snowboard schools, accommodation, mountain and resort restaurants, childcare, and the all important apres-ski. There are also color piste maps of the principal resorts, a guide to 150 tour operators and a comprehensive web and telephone directory of ski and snowboard organizations. With this guide, readers will find the best resort to suit their needs and enjoy a fantastic trip.

Cadogan Guides The Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2006

Hardy, Felice

Winter Sports

Cadogan Books

This is a detailed insider guide to ski and snowboard resorts worldwide – and who they suit. In-depth descriptions of ski areas, recommendations for the best ski and snowboard schools, accommodation, mountain and resort restaurants, childcare and the all-important après-ski are included, giving snow sports fanatics the best advice for a fantastic trip. 

Cadogan Guides the Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2007

This is a detailed insider guide to ski and snowboard resorts worldwide – and who they suit. In-depth descriptions of ski areas, recommendations for the best ski and snowboard schools, accommodation, mountain and resort restaurants, childcare and the all-important après-ski are included, giving snow sports fanatics the best advice for a fantastic trip. Also inside: · Cadogan awards for Best Resort
· Full color piste maps of principal resorts
· Guide to 150 tour operators
· Comprehensive web and telephone directory of ski and snowboard organizations

Cadogan Guides 2008 the Great Skiing & Snowboarding Guide

Hardy's Skiing and Snowboarding Guide 2009 (Cadogan Guides)

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