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100 Places You Will Never Visit: The World's Most Secret Locations by Dan Smith
Category: Travel
Ever wondered what it takes to get into Fort Knox? Fancied a peek inside the Coca-Cola Safety Deposit Box? Would you dare to visit Three Mile Island? The world is full of secret places that we either don't know about, or couldn't visit even if we wanted to. Now you can glimpse the Tora Bora caves in Afg ...Show more
50 Dark Destinations - Crime and Contemporary Tourism by Orlando Woods (Contribution by); Patrick Berry (Contribution by); Peter Joyce (Contribution by); Robin West (Contribution by); Rowland Atkinson (Contribution by); Sarah Hodgkinson (Contribution by); Sarah Jones (Contribution by); Selina Patel Nascimento (Contribution by); Simon Winlow (Contribution by); Sophie Gregory (Contribution by); Steve Wadley (Contribution by); Tammy Ayres (Contribution by); Tereza Østbø Kuldova (Contribution by); Thomas Raymen (Contribution by); Travis Linnemann (Contribution by); Wendy Laverick (Contribution by); Adam Lynes (Editor); Craig Kelly (Editor); James Treadwell (Editor); Alice Storey (Contribution by); Angus Nurse (Contribution by); Anna Sergi (Contribution by); Anthony Lloyd (Contribution by); Ben Colliver (Contribution by); Craig Ancrum (Contribution by); Dan Rusu (Contribution by); David Wilson (Contribution by); Donna Yates (Contribution by); Duncan John Frankis (Contribution by); Eamonn Carrabine (Contribution by); Emiline Smith (Contribution by); Emma Winlow (Contribution by); Eveleigh Buck-Matthews (Contribution by); Gary Potter (Contribution by); Grace Gallacher (Contribution by); Hannah London (Contribution by); Ian R. Cook (Contribution by); Jane Richards (Contribution by); Jack Denham (Contribution by); Jardar Nuland Østbø (Contribution by); Jenna Page (Contribution by); Joe Garrihy (Contribution by); John Bahadur Lamb (Contribution by); Katie Lowe (Contribution by); Keith Hayward (Contribution by); Kevin Hoffin (Contribution by); Kyla Bavin (Contribution by); Laura Hammond (Contribution by); Lucas Danos (Contribution by); Luke Telford (Contribution by); Max Hart (Contribution by); Melindy Brown (Contribution by); Michael Rowe (Contribution by); Natasha Pope (Contribution by); Neil Chakraborti (Contribution by); Nicholas Gibbs (Contribution by); Oliver Smith (Contribution by)
Category: Travel Writing
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or ...Show more
Adventures of Lulu by Louise L. Hay & Dan Olmos (Illus JJ Smith-Moore)
Category: Children's
These three stories were written to help today's child grown up with a strong sense of self-esteem and courage. As adults, we sometimes forget that children have many more issues to deal with than we did when we were their age. They're constantly being put into the position of making choices, and are st ...Show more
Around the World in 50 Ways (Tram, Train or Tuktuk...You Choose!) by Dan Smith
Category: Travel | Series: Lonely Planet Kids
Set off from London and travel across the globe. Then try to make it back! In Lonely Planet Kids' Around the World in 50 Ways, kids choose their favourite routes and transportation, from tuk-tuks and sleds, to steamboats and hot-air balloons. They'll visit famous cities and exotic, far-flung places - a ...Show more
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition by David Howe (Editor); Kim Golding (Contribution by); Julie Selwyn (Contribution by); Ben Gurney-Smith (Contribution by); Dan Hughes (Contribution by); Jon Baylin (Contribution by); Ailsa Edwards (Contribution by); Joanne Alper (Editor)
Category: Psychology
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame. Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable p ...Show more
Below Zero by Dan Smith
Category: Young Adult
Twelve-year-old Zak, who has an inoperable brain tumour, is with his sister and parents when their private plane is disastrously diverted. Wrecked on a remote research outpost in the Antarctic, they find themselves in an abandoned base. Then Zak's parents disappear, and the base's equipment starts 3D-pr ...Show more
Big Game by Dan Smith
Category: Young Adult
A boy hunter, the president of the United States, and a terrorist plot converge to create an original and thrilling tale of wilderness survival Every boy in Oskari's remote mountain village must face a ritual hunt on his thirteenth birthday--the Trial--to become a man. It's Oskari's turn, and whatever a ...Show more
Big Game by Dan Smith
Category: Young Adult Fiction
13-year-old Oskari is sent into the cold wilderness on an ancient test of manhood. He must survive armed only with a bow and arrow. But instead, he stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airliner: Air Force One. Terrorists have shot down the President of the United States. The boy hunter and the wor ...Show more
Big Game by Dan Smith
Category: Young Adult Fiction
13-year-old Oskari is sent into the cold wilderness on an ancient test of manhood. He must survive armed only with a bow and arrow. But instead, he stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airliner: Air Force One. Terrorists have shot down the President of the United States. The boy hunter and the wor ...Show more
Boy X by Dan Smith
Category: Children's
Kidnapped and drugged, Ash wakes up on a remote tropical island. His mum - a genetic scientist - has been imprisoned and infected with a deadly virus. Where is he, and what's he doing there? He sets out to cross the jungle to find out and rescue his mother. Soon he realises he's quicker and sharper t ...Show more
Dark Horizons by Dan Smith
Category: Crime and Thrillers
After caring for his mother in her last days, Alex has gone off round the world - with no plan other than to travel and maybe recapture some of his lost youth. Beginning his travels in Indonesia, the idea of finding himself sounds appealing...but soon, he finds himself in real trouble. It starts with a ...Show more
Dry Season by Dan Smith
Category: Crime and Thrillers
On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies Sao Tiago - a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God - the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles away his time drinking and fishing, but when one bloody night he helps a dying stranger, he feels a ch ...Show more