"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) Best Book of 2018 and W inner of the Mary Soames Award for HistoryAn unprecedented history of the storied ship that Darwin said helped add a hemisphere to the civilized worldThe Enlightenment was an age of endeavors, with Britain consumed by the...

The summer before his daughter was born Peter returned to Italy to ride through the sunny parts of Italy on a Vespa the same colour as Donatella Versace, a bright orange 1972 Rally 200 with white go-fast stripes.The journey was a last two-stroke fling before fatherhood and took him through Sardinia, Sicily and the Amalfi Coast. If the trip that became Vroom with a View was like an old B&W movie, this one was in Technicolor.Peter christened the Vespa Marcello. He was a hairy...

A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possibleBy the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of t...

It was a severe case of hippie envy that impelled Peter Moore to travel home from London to Sydney without ever stepping on to an aeroplane. Hippies had the best music, the best drugs, the best sex. But most of all, they had the best trips.With woefully inadequate funds and little hope of actually making it through such notorious hot-spots as the Balkans, Iran and Afghanistan, Peter – never one to err on the side of caution – followed the trail overland to the East over the next ei...

In the summer he turned forty Peter bought an old Vespa on eBay and rode it from Milan to Rome.The Vespa was a beautiful coffee coloured ’61 model with saddle seats and a little too much chrome. Peter called her Sophia after Sophia Loren and the Italians loved her as much as he did.From the Italian Alps to the hilltop towns of Tuscany she showed Peter a side of Italy very few people get to see.‘I do not know a single soul who will not totally dig this brilliant love...

Intrepid travel writer Peter Moore recently invited the new love of his life, a.k.a. the girl next door, to join him on a romantic sojourn through Central America. The trip would take them into an area of the world emerging from decades of civil war, an area racked with poverty, disease and natural disasters. Naturally, she jumped at the chance.Over the next six months they battled hurricanes, mosquitoes, uncooperative border officials and over-sexed Mexican commuters, and along th...

Poultry Business in Africa: Poultry Management and Best Practices is part of a series of books aimed at providing a practical guide to anyone new to poultry production and interested in starting their own poultry business either now or in the foreseeable future. This book can also be of great use to existing poultry producers who are on a quest to get the most out of their poultry business by adopting the efficient poultry management practices and procedures that are prese...

"Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book." —Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Award–winning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible"[A] rollicking account . . . The book's compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore's skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period." —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington PostA spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American h...

Winter has brought a snowstorm to Adventure Woods!Thick snow and sparkling ice covers everything, making it a Winter Wonderland. Badger and Fox and their families are out looking for food and having a lovely visit.The strong winds have brought down some trees, and in a tree by the pond, an owl hen is trapped! Mr Otter runs to find help to save her before it is too late.With help from Mr Owl and the friends, and the neighbourhood spiders, can the owl hen be saved? Ca...

Being only half-vampyre in a school like Danny Gray's makes you a whole loser. But Danny manages to escape the worst of the bullying at his school. Thanks to genetic treatments he had as an infant, most people assume Danny's other half is human, not wulf. It’s easy to pretend that his wulf-half doesn’t exist, but lately every time there’s a full moon he’s been having strange symptoms. If Danny’s fears turn out to be true, everything in his life could be destroyed. And with only a ...

Join the Badger and Fox families and their friend, a Tawny Owl, on an adventure!One day, the badger family goes out hunting for food. The badger cubs go off to play, but come across two young fox cubs that are hiding. Their parents, Mr and Mrs Fox, were out looking for food when dogs chased them, and the foxes haven't returned.Mr Owl and Mr Badger both go to look for the missing foxes. Badger finds Mr Fox, who is hurt, and Owl finds Mrs Fox being kept in a coop with other f...

Poultry Business in Africa: Poultry Management and Best Practices serves as a practical guide and reference point for enthusiastic and passionate individuals like yourself who are interested in starting their own poultry business either now or in the foreseeable future.This book provides you with the required information needed to start and operate your own poultry business as an absolute beginner with little or no prior knowledge in poultry production. This book c...