Lodging & Camping Directory of Namibia & Botswana from the South African publishers Tracks 4 Africa who specialize in maps designed for self-drive exploration of southern African countries. The guide divides each country into regions, presenting most of them on a very basic road map. Individual entries are shown on panels, usually six per page, with icons indicating what facilities & activities available at each site, plus contact details & a brief description.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: location of each site is indicated not according to the maps provided inside this guide but is instead cross-referenced to the indexing grid used in the Tracks 4 Africa maps of Namibia & Botswana.
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Sri Lanka on a laminated, tear-resistant Insight Flexi Map, with a road map of the isl&, street plans of central Colombo & Kandy, all indexed & highlighting numerous places of interest, plus extensive tourist information. On one side is a road map of Sri Lanka at 1:650, 000. Relief shading gives some indication of its topography. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The map presents the road & rail networks, including selected local roads, with driving distance shown on main routes. Interesting town & villages are highlighted & symbols mark other sights, beaches, etc. The map has no geographical coordinates. On the reverse is a street plan of central Colombo (1:17, 500), plus a map at 1:35, 000 of the Kandy area. Public buildings, places of interest & selected hotels are prominently highlighted. Both plans are indexed, including separate lists of various sights.A special feature of the Insight Flexi series are panels with additional tourist information: 18 main sights, neatly grouped into sections covering Urban & Religious Sights, plus Nature & Beaches, are given brief descriptions & are prominently highlighted on the relevant maps. Further panels provide information on Getting Around & Facts for Visitors, including tourist information offices, public holidays, opening times, money, telecommunication & monthly climate charts. ...

France road map No. 901 at 1:1, 000, 000 from the IGN showing the whole country on one side & printed on paper. The map is one of the four annually updated road maps of France from the IGN providing the clearest distinction between charge-free & toll motorways. Presentation is designed to highlight the motorway network, shown with junction numbers indicating full or partial interchanges & toll barriers. Other roads are graded according to their width & the number of lanes. Driving distances are indicated throughout. Topography is shown by relief shading, with main peaks & mountain passes, plus the boundaries of national/regional parks. The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at intervals of 1 ...

About this series: This pocket-sized series is intended for hikers & hill-walkers above all, but all the suggested routes are classified by difficulty & time schedules so as to be accessible to light-walkers as well (Green for easy routes, Blue for medium ones, & Red for difficult routes). Each book contains about 40 to 50 suggested tours, with descriptions, maps illustrating the routes, altitude profiles, & complemented by small photographs in most cases. Each book also contains some practical information, basic characteristics of natural & geographical setting of the area in question (including weather info), & a map of the region indicating the location of the individual tours. Natural landmarks & special points of interests are also highlighted & described, with other suggested trips, & an index of the most important hiking points. ...

Travel the world with Patricia Schultz, author of 1, 000 Places to See Before You Die, the bestselling travel book ever. From Australia's pristine Fraser Island to Burma's gold-domed Shwedagon temple complex to Grand Teton National Park, here are hundreds of destinations beautifully photographed in full colour & accompanied by engaging text. For armchair travellers, it's the ultimate gift & inspiration. ...

Get lost in a thousand great books. Fourteen years in the making & fifth in the series that has over 4.4 million copies in print, 1, 000 Books to Read Before You Die is an eclectic & extraordinary book about books, as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, & enlightening as the 1, 000-plus volumes it recommends. The author, James Mustich, has been a bookseller for decades, including two running the acclaimed independent book catalog A Common Reader, & 1, 000 Books is like his personal store, where every book is excellent. Mustich`s incomparable writing
- lively, informed, erudite yet with an undisguised enthusiasm
- not only reveals why the particular title you`re reading about is vital but also gives you the urgent feeling that you need to drop everything, right now, & read that book. The expected pillars are here
- Dante, Proust, Shakespeare, Faulkner, Woolf, Joyce, Kafka
- but made completely fresh in these animated essays. & in between, the unexpected titles
- from Harold & the violet Crayon to Fun Home, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Tell Me a Riddle
- are made completely essential. Aeschylus is here, & so is Nancy Drew, Herman Melville, & Edwidge Danticat. The alphabetical listing by last name results in the joy of juxtaposition
- Grimm next to Grisham, Clarice Lispector followed by Hugh Lofting
- prompting a rich appreciation for the gorgeous mosaic that is our literary heritage, whether poetry, science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children`s literature, the novel. Because ultimately what this book is not is a canon. It is, rather, an uncommon celebration of the best that our authors have put into words
- &, as one of the entrants, the critic David Denby, put it, that ”special character of solitude & rapture” that is the act of reading.








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The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal 1, 000.. . Before You Die series, it`s the marriage of an irresistible subject with the perfect writer, Mimi Sheraton
- award-winning cookbook author, grande dame of food journalism, & former restaurant critic for The New York Times. 1, 000 Foods fully delivers on the promise of its title, selecting from the best cuisines around the world (French, Italian, Chinese, of course, but also Senegalese, Lebanese, Mongolian, Peruvian, & many more)
- the tastes, ingredients, dishes, & restaurants that every reader should experience & dream about, whether it`s dinner at Chicago`s Alinea or the perfect empanada. In more than 1, 000 pages & over 550 full-colour photographs, it celebrates haute & snack, comforting & exotic, hyper-local & the universally enjoyed: a Tuscan plate of Fritto Misto. Saffron Buns for breakfast in downtown Stockholm. Bird`s Nest Soup. A frozen Milky Way. Black truffles from Le Perigord.

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1, 000 Places to See before You Die 2012 Wall Calendar is more than a calendar. Each month features a location with a map & an itinerary, notes about the history & highlights of the place. A main picture & additional smaller ones for each day will indulge anybody ...

You don t need to leave home to travel the world & what better guide than Patricia Schultz, author of the 1 New York Times bestseller

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It`s a yearlong journey of a lifetime, & your expert guide is Patricia Schultz, author of the phenomenally successful 1, 000 Places to See Before You Die (R) travel series. Each month, discover a new extraordinary location, from the Czech Republic to Buenos Aires to Italy`s glorious Amalfi Coast. Exceptional full-color photographs--one large image at the top of each page & smaller ones throughout the grids--are accompanied by detailed trip itineraries, maps, & captivating text that highlights local history, travelers` tips, & more. ...