28 carefully selected & tested country walks around The Cotswolds, graded by length & ranging from just over four to 10 miles. All of the walks in this book include written directions, an extract of the OS map for the area & some background on the history & natural environment you may see. Most of the walks avoid busy roads, & are designed to help you make the most of a holiday or day trips. There are notes on parking, pubs & things to see on the route. They also include GPS waypoints so you can confirm your location using a handheld GPS. Key places covered by these walking include the Windrush valley, roman ruins, the village of Syde (where Laurie Lee of Cider with Rosie grew up) & Coombe hill. The combination of idyllic stone villages & small towns in gentle, rolling countryside make the Cotswolds quintessentially ' English'. Cotswold stone varies in colour, depending on the area, ranging from light grey through to pale cream, honey & light brown. The natural variation in the limestone is what helps towns & villages such as Castle Combe, Bourton-on-the-Water, Burford, Arlington, Broadway, Chipping Campden, Snowshill & Stanton, all featured in walks in this guide, blend so attractively into the natural surroundings. This is one of a series of books with great walking routes covering the most popular & scenic areas of Britain. ...

This little kit contains a bug-pot with magnifier-lid, allowing a closer inspection of the captured mini-beast inside. An illustrated bug-spotter card offers further information on how to identify your bug
- & the role these tiny creatures play in our ecosystem. All contained within a reusable jute bag, ready to take on mini-beast adventure in your back garden, the park, the beach or just the nearest rock to peer beneath.
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Ignite a lifelong passion for outdoor adventure with our Fire on a Plate Kit
- designed to safely teach the vital skill of fire-lighting.
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Fancy yourself as a budding ornithologist? Entice your feathered friends to come closer by providing a delicious dining experience that is just perfect for pecking. Our reusable Make a Pizza for the Birds Kit is a simple, fun & brilliant way to coax nature even nearer. Offering every child an outdoor experience whatever the weather, this Make a Pizza for the Birds Kit was lovingly designed to capture creative imaginations, encourage resourcefulness & innovation, provide escape & sanctuary, & most of all supply hours & hours of simple fun. For boys & girls, for everywhere & for years to come
- the gift of adventure.
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With its abundance of ancient castles, Roman remains & steam railways, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Kent was set in the past. The Future Mapping Company's Kent County map gives “ The Garden of England” a contemporary upgrade worthy of Margate's Turner gallery. This map spans from Stratford in East London, out to Botany Bay for a spot of fossil hunting & down to Camber Sands for sandcastle building in the South. The contours of the North Downs & High Weald Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are highlighted in our signature eye-catching contrast, making you long for a rural getaway filled with walks & pub lunches. Railway lines are given prominence in black over our silvery road infrastructure, so you could plan your next weekend break in Rye without the parking & traffic stress. Heritage railways are a Kent specialty, so we gave them some extra care in a shimmering teal. As a finishing touch, The Future Mapping Company's legend (or key, if you're not as much of a map nerd as we are!) features an evocative line drawing of the traditional Kent Oast Houses you'll see on your travels. The Future Mapping Company prints their maps on to the highest quality FSC approved silk-coated paper using the lithographic printing process. (This works like a mechanised version of traditional screen printing.) A plate is made for each colour & then laid down individually, creating a stunning print with maximum definition & impact. A sealer is applied to protect the inks & gloss UV varnish used to add contrast & highlight water tributaries. ...

The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's ' The January Man'. Month by month, season by season & region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he travels the country
- from the winter flood lands of the River Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June & the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn
- he describes the history, wildlife, landscapes & people he encounters, down back lanes & old paths, in rain & fair weather. This exquisitely written account of the British countryside not only inspires us to don our boots & explore the 140, 000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates how, on long-distance walks, we can come to an understanding of ourselves & our fellow walkers. Over the hills & along the byways, Christopher Somerville examines what moulded the men of his father's generation
- so reticent about their wartime experiences, so self-effacing, upright & dutiful
- as he searches for 'the man inside the man' that his own father really was. About the author Christopher Somerville is the walking correspondent of The Times. He is one of Britain’s most respected & prolific travel writers, with forty-two books, hundreds of newspaper articles & many TV & radio appearances to his name. He lives in Bristol.



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With 28 circular, graded walks all tried & tested by seasoned walkers, this walking guidebook for The Malverns & Warwickshire is ideal for both holidays & locals. The routes discovered in this guidebook are from 4.8 to 15km (3 to 9 miles), so there's a choice for all abilities. Each route

Includes:: a detailed description, the Ordnance Survey map for the route, GPS waypoints & key historical & landscape features. The area covered by this guide is characterised by gently rolling hills, verdant river valleys, wooded tracts, small market towns & an abundance of attractive villages with thatched cottages, medieval churches & fine old pubs. The walks in this guide include the Warwickshire Beacon, the oddly-named Lickey Hills & Charlecote Park landscaped by ' Capability' Brown & allegedly where Shakespeare was once caught poaching. Pathfinder Guides are Britain’s best-loved walking guides. Printed with weather-resistant covers featuring durable rounded corners, they are the perfect companion for country walking throughout Britain.

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An updated edition of the classic, much praised history of cartography. It traces the adventures, discoveries, & feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior & the ocean floors, & finally the moon & the planets of our solar system. The author has added three new chapters, as well as many updates & amplifications, to reflect the great changes that have taken place in mapmaking in the past two decades. The Mapmakers will continue to be the definitive book on this fascinating subject. About the author John Noble Wilford is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science correspondent for the New York Times. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1998. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, &, since 1965, the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan & Bellport, Long Isl&. ...

That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Ordnance Survey have created this map of the moon using a height data made available by NASA, captured by the Lunar Orbiter laser Altimeter (LOLA) & the Kaguya Terrain Camera, & then shaded to show the heights. Available as a folded map, a rolled poster, a stretched canvas (unframed), a framed canvas, & a glazed framed version. Folded map display has Neil Armstrong on the cover. Canvas & framed options will take an extra 7
- 10 days to prepare before delivery, as they are h&-made to order. They will be delivered by courier.
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That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Ordnance Survey have created this map of the moon using a height data made available by NASA, captured by the Lunar Orbiter laser Altimeter (LOLA) & the Kaguya Terrain Camera, & then shaded to show the heights. Available as a folded map, a rolled poster, a stretched canvas (unframed), a framed canvas, & a glazed framed version. Folded map display has Neil Armstrong on the cover. Canvas & framed options will take an extra 7
- 10 days to prepare before delivery, as they are h&-made to order. They will be delivered by courier.
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