JOHN HARRISON

My great grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do more, I would see the Horn and find lost tribes. The child in me could go even further and sail the waters of Coleridges albatross and enter the watercolours blue horizons of my first novel, and sit on Robinson Crusoes imaginary shore. I had imagined these places; they must exist. All I had to do was look for them.

In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation.For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed. He lives at over 10,000 feet for most of the trip, following the great road of the Incas: the Camino Real, or Royal Road. Hand built over 500 years ago, it crosses the most difficult and dangerous mountains in all the Americas, diving into sweltering canyons and soaring up into the snows. 1500 miles, half of it on foot, takes him from the Equator to Cuzco and the most magical city of all: Machu Picchu. He is attacked, gets lost and is trapped by floods, but only when he goes home does he lose what he wants most.

When Hernán Cortés met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids greater than Egypts. The Aztecs believed time was running down and they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed Christs millennium was approaching, and Gods revelation of Americas had opened the final act: the conversion of the remote races of the earth. After the Day of Judgement Gods experiment with man was over. The laboratory, the physical world, would be destroyed. Both cultures were acting out the last days.Halfway through researching this book John Harrison had a scan which told him he would not live to write it; he was seeing out his own days.The Aztec people were concerned with the transitory nature of worldly things; some of their rulers were revered as much for their philosophical poetry as their conquests. John Harrison follows Cortess route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern Mexico City, home of the Aztecs. A journey within journeys to the end of time, the book becomes a meditation on time, on mortality and self, from a modern master of travel writing.

Forgotten Footsteps won Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year 2013.Following Wales Book of the Year Award 2011 winning Cloud Road, comes Forgotten Footprints, a history of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, the most visited places in Antarctica. In 12 years John has visited over 40 times and guides and lectures on adventure cruise ships. He delivers a selection of highly readable accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, with scientists and adventurers drew the first ghostly maps of the white continent.

Pen and Wash is a practical guide to creating a picture that captures the discipline of pen, along with the subtlety of watercolour. With clear instruction and inspirational examples throughout, it explains the conventional approach of drawing and then adding wash, but also explores alternative ideas and styles. The authors passion for the technique is evident in his examples and enthusiastic text, making the book a superb guide to this beautiful medium. Advise on the correct equipment, techniques, the unpredictable nature of watercolours and Step by step demonstrations of pen and wash techniques.

En este libro se describe la misteriosa alteración sensoperceptiva en la que la estimulación de un sentido produce, en la conciencia de quien la sufre, una percepción en otro: oír colores, ver sonidos, saborear formas... Desde el siglo XIX, la que el autor llama neurologia romantica, realizo descripciones clinicas y establecio hipotesis que han sido muy utiles para las neurociencias contemporaneas. Una rigurosa seleccion de pacientes sometidos a estudios neuropsicologicos e imagenologicos muy cuidadosos permitio obtener conclusiones sorprendentes que el autor expone con gran claridad.

Premio Philip K. Dick 2008Premio Arthur C. Clarke 2007Grandes naves de turismo cubren las distancias entre las estrellas. Todo está ahí fuera y todo está en venta. Se puede conseguir un cuerpo nuevo. Se puede conseguir un yo nuevo. Uno puede ser cualquier cosa que elija... salvo en la zona prohibida de Saudade, donde, hace una generacion, comenzaron a caer a la tierra pedazos del Canal Kefahuchi y elegir ha dejado de ser una opcion.La misma imprevisibilidad de la zona atrae a aventureros cuyo trafico de los inexplicables organismos, tecnologias desestabilizadoras y artefactos biologicos que se pueden encontrar alli los conduce a un brutal conflicto con la policia de artefactos de Saudade. Mientras tanto, los turistas mas adinerados prueban suerte en las fronteras, en las poco fiables manos de Vic Serotonina, corrupto operador turistico del alma; y una nueva clase de enfermedad se abre camino fuera de la zona."Nova Swing es la gloriosa e imaginativa secuela en clave de space noir de la obra de culto que es Luz, una novela que domina todo el espectro de valores literarios."The Guardian

¿Cuál es método más eficaz para superar la tartamudez? Para responder adecuadamente a esta pregunta,primero deberemos tener claro qué es realmente la tartamudez. El autor de este libro llegó a la conclusion, tras largos años de estudio, de que era algo mas que un problema del habla, que habia otros aspectos que tambien debian ser tenidos en cuenta. Y establecio un nuevo paradigma, un nuevo modelo, al que llamo "el hexagono de la tartamudez", que permitia abordar el problema con nuevas y mejores armas.Escrito por alguien que fue tartamudo durante años y ha dedicado despues su vida a indagar sobre problema para ayudar a otros, este libro propone una serie de pautas para vencer la tartamudez. Pero no es un mero ensayo teorico, sino que incluye ademas esclarecedores testimonios de personas que lograron superarla y que son de gran ayuda para quienes la sufren y se enfrentan a ella.