Acadia National Park is coastal Maine`s most beautiful destination. This gorgeous, full-color travel guidebook reveals the highlights & hidden gems of Acadia & Mount Desert Isl&. Whatever your interests-hiking to the top of Cadillac Mountain, dining on fresh lobster in Bar Harbor, sailing past historic lighthouses
- Acadia: The Complete Guide puts the best of Acadia at your fingertips. Beautiful colour photos showcase the park`s best destinations. Fascinating chapters on Geology, History & Wildlife reveal the story behind the scenery. Detailed maps make travel planning easy. Written & photographed by Maine native James Kaiser, Acadia: The Complete Guide is the only guide you`ll need.
...

Simple street plan with no index. Symbols depict a variety of features eg. hospitals, shopping centres, hotels, places of interest. Inset maps show the international airport to the east of the main map, & the Pie de la Cuesta area to the west. Legend in Spanish only. On the reverse is a general road map at 1:1000, 000 of southern Mexico, Approx. centred on Mexico City & reaching outwards to Guadalahara in the north-west corner, Veracruz in the east & to the southern coast. The legend for this map

Includes:: English.

...

Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Simple street plan with no index. Symbols depict a variety of features eg. hospitals, shopping centres, hotels, places of interest. Inset maps show the international airport to the east of the main map, & the Pie de la Cuesta area to the west. Legend in Spanish only. On the reverse is a general road map at 1:1000, 000 of southern Mexico, Approx. centred on Mexico City & reaching outwards to Guadalahara in the north-west corner, Veracruz in the east & to the southern coast. The legend for this map

Includes:: English.

...

Formerly beautiful & at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering & sometimes ending it, she is revered & feared in equal measure as the village`s Accabadora. When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, & in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her & flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love & acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty & destiny that must one day be hers. Accabadora has been awarded seven major literary prizes, including Italy`s prestigious Premio Campiello. An exceptional English-language debut, it weaves a narrative of rare grace & subtlety into a sensual tapestry of local nuance, atmosphere & dialect. ...

Published to coincide with Sara Wheeler`s 50th birthday, Access All Areas gathers together a selection of her shorter travel pieces; both journalism & introductions to other books. As one would expect, the frozen poles of the earth feature regularly, whether she is spending the night in Captain Scott`s hut or reliving the adventures of Shackleton & Nansen. But hot places feature too
- Malawi, Kerala, Cuba & Bangladesh. Wheeler writes brilliantly of her heroes
- Mary Kingsley, Fanny Trollope, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn & Sybille Bedford
- & about the pains & pleasures of writing biography. Worried that having children would end her roaming, she took her infants with her, to the Arctic, & on a brilliantly depicted cruise on the QE2. She learns to belly-dance, to strip, & to walk on the wing of a biplane at 3000 feet. This is an immensely varied & satisfying collection of Wheeler`s works, following her series of remarkable books
- Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry
- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Too Close to the Sun & the Magnetic North.




...

Access in London is an essential guide to the capital for anyone who has difficulty getting around. Aimed at people with mobility problems, including wheelchair users, elderly people, parents with young children & anyone else with limited walking ability, the book has been researched by a team of both disabled & non-disabled people & offers a guide to London ...

The Rough Guide to Accessible Britain explores over 180 ideas of days out in Britain for disabled visitors, incorporating a range of destinations & covering places to visit & things to do. Each of the attractions in the guide has been recommended, visited & reviewed by writers with disabilities & include detailed information & practical tips on disabled access to each destination & transport options. A series of symbols, identified by a key in the introductory chapter, also provides important guidance for a range of different disabilities, with relevant information on parking, getting around & places to eat. ...

Moleskine's Accessories Set comprise a slip-on rubber grip to make writing more comfortable & a pen holder which carries up to three pens or pencils on the cover of any Moleskine notebook. The grip has a flexible, silicone rubber sleeve with a soft, warm finish, while the pen-holder fits most Moleskine notebook covers & has a rubberised, black & stainless steel clip. ...

Are standards of English alright
- or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? & what about ending
...