Meet Harley - an antiquated 50cc motorbike, top speed 25mph, who carried me on the backroads of Greece from the island of Evia to deliver the collected Jeeves and Wooster to a Moldovan monk on Mount Athos, a self-governing state run by monks.Harley and the Holy Mountain is a sequel to It's All Greek To Me! with similar humour, self-deprecation, entertaining stories, and insights into today's Greece.The road trip is based on a lifetime's love of Greece. It is seasoned with experienc...

Hunted street kids, child slavery, and an explorer starving and lost in the Frozen North. The Christmas message with no added syrup But with happy endings... Rubbish Christmas - Christmas Love - The Explorer's Christmas 50 Pages

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Three Christmas Tales is a powerful and imaginative collection of modern Christmas stories that explore injustice, generosity, and love.Hunted street kids, child slavery, an explorer lost in the Frozen North. these stories re-imagine the meaning of Christmas beyond comfort and tradition. Each tale blends realism with symbolism, compassion with darkness, and hope with the Christmas messageWritten in a clear, lyrical style, these stori...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. To escape debt and summonses, Lord Exford is sent abroad in 1788 with Winstanley, a prudish clergyman, and Higgins, a truculent artist.Shipwrecked on the island of Negropont—modern Euboea—then ruled by a Turkish pasha, they encounter Amelia, a botanist, feminist, and intrepid explorer, and her camel, Rousseau.Amid pirates, renegades, minstrels, djinn, and star-crossed lovers, the travellers are drawn into a world of political intrigu...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In 1599, English musician and organ builder, Thomas Dallam, traveled to Constantinople to deliver a magnificent self-playing organ and clock to Sultan Mehmed III. The Sultan’s Organ is the diary of his remarkable adventure, put into modern English by John Mole.Follow Dallam’s journey through the Ottoman Empire, as he navigates the Sultan’s harem, political intrigues, and the extraordinary challenge of transporting and installing the Sultan’...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For some, Greece is marble ruins and crested helmets. For others, whitewashed houses and the slow rhythm of island life. Between these two visions lies three thousand years of history — and a country still negotiating its past with its present.John Mole explores this layered landscape on Harley — a twenty-five-year-old 50cc motorcycle — moving between ancient sites and cheap hotels, refugee camps and Byzantine monasteries, roadside chapels ...

Meet Harley - an antiquated 50cc motorbike, top speed 25mph, who carried me on the backroads of Greece from the island of Evia to deliver the collected Jeeves and Wooster to a Moldovan monk on Mount Athos, a self-governing state run by monks.The road trip is a journey through the heart of Greece to its soul. We pass sites and sights from prehistory to the present: a Mycenaean beehive tomb, 3500 years old; the body of a Russian saint, who teleported pilaff; a refugee camp in a chick...

This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the Elements themselves and the functions of the Organs, the book explores the basis of diagnosis in Five Element acupuncture, possible blocks to treatment and the treatment itsel...

Praised by Business Week as 'invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality...a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves' and named a Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Mind Your Manners has become a 50,000-copy bestseller and the standard guide to European business cultures for over a decade. Now in a fully expanded and updated third edition, this practical guide contains a further fifteen country chapters including all the additional countr...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. An ordinary man. An extraordinary journey.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem. He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer. He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way. Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered...

The diary of Thomas Dallam. Finally published 400 years late!A fascinating glimpse of the clash of Western and Muslim cultures. Translated into modern English, it reads as if its Elizabethan author were alive today.In 1598 merchants of the City of London paid for a present to be given by Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III of Turkey. She hoped to turn the Sultan's military might on her Spanish enemies. The merchants hoped to secure trading concessions.The present w...

A rare insight into a Medieval mind.In 1394 Nicola Martoni made a dangerous journey from a small town in Italy to Jerusalem.He was a little, short-sighted, middle-aged provincial lawyer.He sailed through Aegean storms to Egypt, walked across the desert in high summer, climbed Mount Sinai with malaria, and finally made it to the Holy Places. Five companions died on the way.Desperate to get home and running out of money, he wandered from island to island and acros...