North & West Africa at 1:4, 000, 000 in Michelin’s series covering the continent on three maps excellent for long-distance overland traveling or route planning, with detailed road classification, plenty of geographical features & a very comprehensive climate chart listing several locations. Coverage extends east to the western borders of Egypt & the Sudans, & south just beyond Yaoundé in Cameroon & Bangui in the Central African Republic. Road detail distinguishes various classes of road surface, e.g. enhanced, partially-enhanced, earth roads & tracks, with the maps also providing definitions of these terms & their implications for travel. Difficult or seasonally impassable roads (shown with times of the year), prohibited roads & scenic routes are indicated, as well as vehicle ferries across rivers with load limit, toll barriers & customs posts on border crossings. Intermediate distances in miles & kilometres are marked on many routes. Railway lines & local airports are included. Topography is well presented by subtle relief shading plus colouring & or graphics for deserts, oasis, water holes, densely forested areas, seasonal rivers & lakes, marshland & areas liable to flooding, etc. Plenty of names of geographical features are provided: deserts, mountain ranges, peaks, etc. National parks are marked, indicating those with camping facilities. In most countries the maps also show internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces. Symbols mark selected tourist accommodation. Also included are petrochemical pipelines & mining sites for various metals, gold & silver, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 4° intervals. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also has a very comprehensive climatic chart showing maximum & minimum daily temperature & rainfall for each month in several locations, all highlighted on the map.

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North East Africa & the Arabian Peninsula at 1:4, 000, 000 in Michelin’s series covering the continent on three maps excellent for long-distance overland traveling or route planning, with detailed road classification, plenty of geographical features & a very comprehensive climate chart listing several locations. Coverage within Africa extends to the western borders of Egypt, Sudan & South Sudan, & south to Nairobi, Kigali & the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo with Kisangani & Goma on the southern edge of the map. In the Middle East the map extends north to Tel Aviv, Amman & Najaf. Road detail distinguishes various classes of road surface, e.g. enhanced, partially-enhanced, earth roads & tracks, with the maps also providing definitions of these terms & their implications for travel. Difficult or seasonally impassable roads (shown with times of the year), prohibited roads & scenic routes are indicated, as well as vehicle ferries across rivers with load limit, toll barriers & customs posts on border crossings. Intermediate distances in miles & kilometres are marked on many routes. Railway lines & local airports are included. Topography is well presented by subtle relief shading plus colouring & or graphics for deserts, oasis, water holes, densely forested areas, seasonal rivers & lakes, marshland & areas liable to flooding, etc. Plenty of names of geographical features are provided: deserts, mountain ranges, peaks, etc. National parks are marked, indicating those with camping facilities. In most countries the maps also show internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces. Symbols mark selected tourist accommodation. Also included are petrochemical pipelines & mining sites for various metals, gold & silver, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 4° intervals. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also has a very comprehensive climatic chart showing maximum & minimum daily temperature & rainfall for each month in several locations, all highlighted on the map.

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Northern Africa at 1:3, 400, 000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB with topography presented by altitude colouring. The map divides the region east/west with a tiny overlap between the sides, extending from the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara to Sinai & the Red Sea coast of Egypt. On its western side coverage extends just south of the Bordj Mokhtar border crossing between southern Algeria & Mali, whilst its eastern part goes further south to approx. 19ºS to include the Tibesti Mountains in Chad & the Nile just short of the 6th Cataract in Sudan. Topography is presented by altitude colouring (without a colour bar & without spot heights), although the maps does show names of various mountain ranges, as well as locations of numerous water wells & oases. Selected national parks are highlighted. The map shows the network of roads & selected desert tracks with border crossings & distances marked on main routes. Symbols indicate various places of interest. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 5º intervals. Each side has a separate index. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

North-western Africa at 1:3, 800, 000 on an indexed, double-sided map from ITMB with topography presented by altitude colouring. The map divides the region north/south, extending on its northern side from the Mediterranean to the southernmost tip of Eritrea & Ndjamena in Chad, plus westwards to the longitude of 10° west. The southern half extends to beyond 10º south of the Equator, & westwards to Bangui in the Central African Republic (approx. 18º W). Coverage

Includes::, therefore, the whole of Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia (shown without the current political divisions), South Sudan, Central African Republic, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda & Burundi, plus most of Tanzania & the Democratic Rep. of Congo Topography is presented by altitude colouring with spot heights & names of main mountain ranges. National parks are highlighted. The map shows the network of roads & selected tracks with border crossings. Symbols indicate various places of interest. The map has latitude & longitude lines at 5º intervals & is indexed. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Tracks Through History 4WD Off-Road Touring Guides series, *in French only, * covers selected areas of north-western Africa, mainly Mauritania & various regions of Morocco including Western Sahara. The routes are presented on plain, black & white maps & are accompanied by detailed instructions which include full latitude & longitude coordinates for GPS users. Each guide gives extensive historical background of the region, its history & its cultural heritage. Colour photographs, many also annotated with GPS coordinates, provide further information about the area covered by the guide.*PLEASE NOTE: all the text is in French only.* ...

Drama & beauty abound on the plains of Africa & in this superb collection of images, Australian photographers Kym & Tonya ...

The Cairo to Cape Town Route presented by ITMB in a handy-size A5 paperback atlas with extracts from the publishers’ mapping of the continent at 1:3, 400, 000, plus 50 additional pages of large city centre street plans of main cities and/or popular locations such as Victoria Falls. Coverage of the countries along the route is indicated on our coverage image. Mapping at 1:3, 400, 000 has altitude colouring with bands in feet to show the topography. Road network indicates motorways, main highways plus selected secondary & local roads or tracks. The extent of other information such as driving distances & petrol stations, railway lines, local airports, places of interest, national parks & protected areas, campsites, etc, vary from country to country. The atlas is indexed & on most pages latitude & longitude are shown by margin ticks at 1º or 30’ intervals. An important feature of the atlas are its numerous clearly drawn town centre street plans, most spread over two pages & highlighting accommodation, various facilities such as shopping centres or banks, embassies, etc. The plans cover: Alexandria. Cairo (on 8 pages, plus a regional map showing access to Giza & Sakkara, & a metro diagram), Khartoum, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kampala, Kigali, Bujumbura, Arusha, Dar Es Salam, Zanzibar’s Stone Town, Lusaka, Livingstone, Lilongwe, Blantyre, Beira, Maputo, Harare, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Gaborone, Pretoria, Johannesburg, & Cape Town. The atlas also

Includes:: a map of the Mutirikwi Recreational Park in Zimbabwe at 1:100, 000 with an enlargement of the Great Zimbabwe complex, plus the Okavango Delta – Chobe NP region of Botswana at 1:500, 000.

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Africa Overland in the Travel Guide series from Bradt; encompassing a comprehensive range of titles to destinations worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa, Central & South America. Bradt are one of the country’s leading independent publishers & have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the guides cover but also in encouraging tourists to limit the impact they have on the local environment. Bradt guides have a reputation for appealing to more independent travelers & often cover destinations that are not available from other publishers. Each guide opens with two comprehensive chapters on Background & Practical Information, covering details of the country’s geography, culture, natural history, government & politics, economy, people, language, religion, education & culture. Important practical advice

Includes:: when to visit, highlights, suggested itineraries, tour operators, red tape, embassies & consulates, getting there & away, health, safety, what to take, money, budgeting, getting around, accommodation, eating & drinking, public holidays, shopping, arts & entertainment, media & communications, business, travel culture & cultural etiquette. Individual sections are organized geographically by region & typically open with information on practicalities & orientation, before focusing on what to see & where to go. Information on what to see, where to stay, where to eat & how to find your way around is provided, with a range of budgets catered for. Simple black & white maps locate key visitor sites & places of accommodation. Bradt Travel Guides include appendices that provide an in-depth introduction to the language of each country, a glossary of terms & a listing of books & internet resources providing further information on the destination.

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The Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language & beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar & pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet phrasebooks enable you to quickly & confidently construct your own phrases in addition to those given. The given phrases cover all the essential travel & tourism categories such as transport, communications, business meetings & accommodation, as well as in-depth categories such as health, food & social interaction. The phrasebooks are designed to enable more than just simple question-answer communication, allowing the start of two-way conversations
- putting you comfortably on your way to learning the language & understanding its speakers. True to Lonely Planet
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77x 91cm wallmap version of the publisher's political map of the continent showing the different countries in restrained colours against the dark blue sea. Countries, with their names in English, are shown with internal administrative divisions, the state & provincial capitals are highlighted, & symbols for towns & cities indicate their approximate population. Communications network

Includes:: main roads, railways, airports, with rivers shown indicating their navigable parts. Salt pans, wadis, waterfalls & rapids, are also marked, as well as national parks & oases. Names of some of the geographical features such as deserts & mountain ranges are given, plus spot heights. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5

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