A Foreign Country: From the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, a compelling spy action crime thriller you won’t want to put down: Book 1 (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller)

Product Information

If none of the following countries are foreign for you, take a glance at a map of the world and challenge yourself to identify places that you would categorize as foreign countries. Take the activity one step further by planning a trip to a foreign country on your list and experience the culture of that place for yourself someday. I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect.

In giving a context to conservation work of any type, in providing insights into the ways the past is seen, has been seen, and how the past is analysed (and why), this book is invaluable. … This is a superb survey. Covering almost the whole field of what we as a species have made, good and bad, and how we deal with this making and its outputs (or indeed how we do not deal with them), this is a book of great range and richness and offers an intensely personal view that always informs and challenges. Lowenthal’s sheer energy, his depth of coverage and his insights are accessible, fascinating and essential reading.'A very fun and interesting fact about Andorra la Vella is that this city happens to be the European capital with the highest elevation level. Andorra la Vella boasts an elevation of about 3,356 feet above sea level. Most people in Andorra speak the country's official language of Catalan, but other languages you would hear around the country are French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Andorra is one of many countries, actually, that does not have English listed as one of its most recognized languages. The population density of this European country is four hundred and twenty-five people for every square mile of land. With such a small total area, it is no surprise that most of Andorra's population resides in urban settings, particularly because the heightened number of people in such a small country leads to a greater number of cities in the first place. New Caledonia

Reader-friendly, with a light touch and a sharp sense of irony and paradox. Moves with ease from the psychology of memory to school textbooks, science fiction, museums, forgeries, re-enactments, ephemera, apologies for actions taken long ago, the effects of ageing (on both artefacts and people), and, of course, heritage.'

Charles Cumming has gained a reputation as a successor to the inestimable John Le Carre. His sophisticated plots and knowledge of spycraft are second to none in the current crop of spy novelists. His last novel, “Trinity Six”, a re-imagined and taut look at the British spy scandal of the last century was brilliant. Cumming's sixth thriller (The Trinity Six, 2011, etc.) is smart and intricate, with a large cast of cool characters and an authentic feel. As an island nation in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia happens to be a French country. The nation is an archipelago of five main islands, including Grande Terre Island, the Chesterfield Islands, the Isle of Pines, a smaller archipelago named Belep, and the Island of Grande Terre, where most people live. There are a handful of smaller, lesser populated islands scattered around the five prominent islands in New Caledonia. The population of New Caledonia is around 282,831 people, with a total area spanning 7,058 square miles across all five major islands. If you take the population of this French-controlled island country and divide it by the nation's total area, you will find a value that represents the ratio of people to the square mileage of New Caledonia. Known as the population density, there are just over forty people for every square mile of land in the country of New Caledonia.