Philip Allsworth-Jones Knihy

It's never too late to have a big adventure...

A pracitcal guide to opening and strengthening your healing reiki channels.

Philip Gwynne Jones' third book featuring English Honorary Consul, Nathan Sutherland - set against the background of Venice, the most beautiful city on earth.

For fans of Joseph Kanon, Donna Leon and Abir Mukherjee comes a fantastic new thriller, The Venetian Game. Set in one of the most beautiful cities on earth, a mild mannered English consul is drawn into a web of deadly secrets and lies

Philip Jones left the rat race in the late '90s. He has since gained a degree in English Law with Spanish Law and has pursued some charitable endeavours. One such venture led to him writing this unique insight into life in the Peruvian Andes. He flew to Peru in September 2009, expecting to assist in the construction of a soup kitchen in a shanty town in Lima on the behalf of a charity. Instead, he found himself living in a small village, building a Casa Hogar at 3700m in the Andes, in no uncertain danger. His description of his stay in Apuquri and of the people he met there provides a unique insight into a world yet to be consumed by the 21st century. A time and a place where the old ways are very much alive, and all is not what it appears to be. Full of witty comments and insight, this is a charming and enjoyable memoir. A delightful and instructive read; it is a much-needed glimpse into a living world that owes more to the legacy of the vanquished Incas than the victorious Spaniards.

offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists.

Kariya Wuro is a rock shelter in north east Nigeria, excavated in the 1980s and studied by a team of researchers from the University of Ibadan. Preliminary accounts of some aspects have been published, but this is the first full site report. The Late Stone Age occupation consists of two phases, aceramic and ceramic, both described and illustrated in detail. In order to supplement the pollen analysis from the rock shelter, a thorough study of the vegetation of the area was made, with plant names recorded both in Hausa and the local Kariya language. The Kariya people, or Wiihe as they call themselves, are a small community, part of the North Bauchi language group. A description is given of their society, in particular their masquerades, although it does not seem too likely that any direct link can be established between them and the former inhabitants of the rock shelter. Full descriptions of excavated rock shelters in West Africa and Nigeria in particular are rare, and the database recorded here should provide a useful point of comparison for researchers in the region as a whole. While this book is primarily of interest to archaeologists, it is also of relevance to those interested in ethnography and linguistics, and the natural environment in this part of Nigeria