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1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die by Barry Stone
Category: Travel | Series: 1001
The ever-increasing passion for recreational walking is given fresh impetus with the creation of each new national park and wilderness area, the construction of every new walkway, and the clearing of another fresh, never-before-trodden trail. The exponential growth of pathways and woodland walks, the ut ...Show more
1001 Walks: You Must Experience Before You Die by Barry Stone
Category: Sports and Hobbies | Series: 1001
1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die features wide-ranging, carefully chosen routes varying from the rugged delights of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path to the wilderness of Jamaica, and the Harz Witches' Trail high up in the German mountains. The hand-picked excursions take in mountain passes, w ...Show more
1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die by Barry Stone (General Editor)
Category: Travel
An essential reference guide for all those who love to get out of their cars, get off their bikes, and lace up their walking shoes.
1001 Walks You Must Take Before You Die: Country Hikes, Heritage Trails, Coastal Strolls, Mountain Paths, City Walks by Barry Stone
Category: Travel
This generously illustrated volume features 1,001 carefully selected scenic walks throughout the world in both natural and urban settings--from Africa's Rift Valley to the Appalachian Trail. This latest volume in the hugely popular 1,001 series is the ideal guide to the world's most exhilarating walks, ...Show more
Audacious Architecture by Barry Stone
Category: Home and Garden
At the advent of a new millennium, architects have pushed the limits of invention and originality. Boasting breathtaking skylines of sail-shaped buildings, dancing towers and twisting skyscrapers, the audacious architecture makes many of the world's finest cities a delight to visit for architects, desig ...Show more
Australian Beach Houses by Barry Stone
Category: Interior Design
Once described as the Australian shack, beach houses are now the Australian dream . With new architecture and modern design it is our love of living by the water and having a beach lifestyle. Barry Stone has included some of the most amazing homes along our coastlines from all over Australia. With the d ...Show more
By the Sea: Stunning Hotels, Homes and Restaurants by Barry Stone
Category: Interior Design
By the Sea features more than 50 unique properties throughout theworld that have their footprints onsome of the world's most wonderfulbeaches. Featuring a mix of residentialhomes, hotels, restaurants and cafes,each property has been carefullyselected for its aesthetic value, history,and ambience, and th ...Show more
Great Australian Historic Hotels by Barry Stone
Category: Australian Studies
On Christmas Eve in 1882, an impromptu game of cricket was organised between the touring English Cricket team and a local side in the grounds of Rupertswood, a 50-room Italianate mansion in Sunbury, a 30-minute drive north of Melbourne. At dinner that night Rupertswood's owner, Lady Janet Clark, marked ...Show more
I Want To Be Alone by Barry Stone
Category: History
This book looks at some of history's most fascinating recluses and remarkable loners. Some withdrew from society for religious reasons, as in the case of the hermits and ascetics who gave their lives entirely to the service of God by meditating alone in the desert, in cliffside caves, in monastic cells, ...Show more
Mutinies: Shocking Real-life Stories of Subversion at Sea by Barry Stone
Category: True Crime | Series: True Crime and Punishment
What drives men at sea to commit mutiny - to murderously rebel against superior officers and risk their own lives? Mutinies is an exhaustive investigation of twenty-three of the world's most infamous uprisings at sea, from the earliest days of ocean exploration to the present. Investigating the circumst ...Show more