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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 (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: Architecture
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: Architecture
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: Architecture
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: Australiana
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
Scandalous: The Outrageous Behaviour of Sports Stars by Barry Stone
Category: Sport
There is no shortage of sporting stars making headlines off the field for all the wrong reasons. From dodgy dalliances bubbling to the surface, to marriages shattered, lucrative endorsement deals flushed down the toilet and clubs that can no longer hold onto players who have stuffed up in very big ways. ...Show more
Secret Army: An Elite Force, a Secret Mission, a Fleet of Model-T Fords, a Far Flung Corner of WWI by Barry Stone
Category: Military
It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today. Barry St ...Show more
The 50 Greatest Prehistoric Sites of the World by Barry Stone
Category: Travel | Series: The 50
Humanity's written history stretches back only 5,000 years, a mere blip on the timeline of our existence. If you want to know what it really means to be fully human, to see the whole story, you need to go back. Way, way back. Prehistoric humans couldn't write, but they were adept at telling their own st ...Show more