Great Expeditions: 50 Journeys That Changed Our WorldForeword by Levison Wood, presenter of Walking the Americas. A comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world.

Fully illustrated throughout

giving novice cooks something to create for every occasion

Max Diamant has jumped from the train headed to a death camp

he traces how six countries have survived defining catastrophes - from the forced opening of Japan to the Soviet invasion of Finland to Chile's brutal Pinochet regime - through selective change

the rabbit warren

influenced the rise and fall of civilisations through history

CSNY were the most successful

from Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall

Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991

and works hard to give her own children the sort of secure and ordered childhood that she never had

Pine chases his quarry - the worst man in the world

Sally and Harriet are reduced to working for Quality Cleaners when each of them needs money