Intrepid traveler & Dominican Republic expert Christopher J. Baker takes a fascinating tour of this up-&-coming eco-destination. Beginning in the bustling, historic capital city of Santo Domingo, Baker moves on to the southwest, land of the Taino people, the old sugar-processing town of Barahona, wildlife-rich Lago Enriquillo, & magnificent beaches. Then it's on to the southeast, known for the resort zones of Punta Cana & Bavaro, remote beaches, & sugar plantations; the spectacular, underdeveloped Semana Peninsula, famous for its whale-watching; & the north coast, with seemingly unending beaches & what a great life atmosphere. Christopher Columbus' first sight of the New World was upon these shores. The visit ends with explorations of the Valle el Cibao & the central cordillera in the Dominican Republic's mountainous interior, complete with nightlife-bustling Santiago, farmlands that produce some of the world's best cigars, & endless rain forest laced with hiking trails. ...

Dominican Republic in the National Geographic Traveler guide series, produced by America’s leading travel publishers, exploring a range of cities, regions & countries worldwide & using the expertise & tradition of National Geographic to provide a comprehensive survey of each destination. Each of the guides in the series draws upon National Geographic’s rich history of travel experience & is researched by authors familiar with the area. Whilst the content is influenced by an American editorial style, individual titles are still accessible to a non-American audience, with a combination of practical guidance & detailed information included in each guide. The series also relies upon the extensive image libraries of National Geographic to present a rich visual image of each destination. Individual National Geographic Traveler titles are organised uniformly, allowing readers to access information quickly & easily. Introductory sections provide information on Charting your Trip, with details of getting there & around & a History & Culture chapter profiling history, food & drink, land & landscape, flora & fauna & arts & literature. Chapter are arranged geographically by region, with notable cities & areas principally describing the main sites & attractions, with further information on directions, history & practicalities. There are also a number of individual features & insider tips throughout each guide covering subjects such as walking tours, local culture, driving tours, recommended local experiences & in-depth thematic short histories of the culture & histories of individual regions. A Travelwise section at the back of each guide provides essential practical information on when to go, what to take, further reading, getting there & around, local etiquette, media, holidays, money matters, religion, smoking, time differences, opening times, travellers with disabilities & accommodation. Restaurants & hotels are listed with brief descriptions & information on prices, location, contact details & facilities for the relevant regional chapters in the guide. ...

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers & Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio & television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police & British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. & in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission by them to rescue his old friend Frank & get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog; as David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. & hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men.. . At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller & a poignant love story, with DOMINION C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. ...

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers & Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio & television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police & British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill`s Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government`s side. & in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission by them to rescue his old friend Frank & get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London`s Great Smog; as David`s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. & hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men.. . At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller & a poignant love story, with DOMINION C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel. ...

` Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman`
- Ian Thomson, Independent The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd`s masterful
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Domodossola
- Val Formazza, map no. 11, in a series contoured hiking maps at 1:50, 000 with local trails, long-distance footpaths,
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Domodossola
- Val Formazza area of the Italian Alps in a series contoured hiking maps at 1:50, 000 with local trails, long-distance
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Domodossola
- Val Grande National Park, map No. 285T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic
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Domodossola area in the Italian Alps on a contoured map at 1:30, 000 in a series from Zanetti Editore highlighting waymarked hiking trails, refuges & places of interest. Maps in this series have contours at 25m with spot heights, shading & colouring for woodlands show the topography. Local footpaths are marked, with an overprint highlighting waymarked routes & indicating difficult sections. A varying range of symbols shows local facilities & places of interest. Some titles have grid lines, presumably of a UTM grid, but without indicating any coordinates. Map legend is in Italian (in some titles also in German). To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Domodossola, map No. 285, in the standard topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, i.e. without the special overprint highlighting walking trails, local bus stops, etc, presented in Swisstopo’s hiking editions of the 50K survey. The map covers the Italian side of the border. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. All the maps have a 1-km grid with the Swiss national coordinates. This standard version of the 50K survey covers the whole country on 78 small format sheets, with special larger format maps published for several popular tourist destinations. Small format sheets cover an area of 35 x 24 km (21 x 15 miles approx) & have map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. The special larger sheets cover 50 x 35 km (31 x 22 miles approx) & have no map legend, but a separate leaflet can be provided instead.PLEASE NOTE: the hiking editions of the 1:50, 000 Swisstopo survey are listed on our website in a separate series. ...