Pacific Northwest Hiking in the Moon Outdoor Guides series; exploring a wide range of outdoor activities
- including camping,
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In Moon Pacific Northwest Road Trip, a full-colour guide, Seattle resident Allison Williams shares expert tips for road tripping through Oregon, Washington, & British Columbia. Detailed driving instructions tell you how far you`ll have to drive, how long it will take, & which highways you`ll need to follow, including information on alternate routes, or shorter options like the Portland Loop & a route between Seattle & Vancouver, & the best places to stop along the way. The Day-by-day suggested itineraries tell you the best ways to spend your time: The 17-Day Northwest Route, Three Days in Seattle, Two Days in Vancouver, One Day in Victoria, Two Days on the Olympic Peninsula, One Day on the Oregon Coast, Two Days in Portl&, Two Days in Central Oregon, Two Days in Washington Wine Country, One Day in Mount Rainier National Park. Easy-to-use maps keep you oriented along the way & prepare you for your trip through the Pacific Northwest. ...

Pacific Northwest at 1:1, 000, 000 in a series of indexed touring road maps of USA from Hallwag, with each title conveniently covering a large region & providing enlargements of most visited areas, city maps & other useful tourist information. A booklet attached to the map cover contains enlargements of the Portl&, Seattle & Tacoma conurbations, plus maps of five national parks: Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, Grand Teton, Yellowstone & Redwood. The map is part of Hallwag’s series covering USA at 1:1, 000, 000. The series has been revised from its earlier version & now uses cartography from Hema which provides an excellent combination of information about the terrain, the road network & places of interest. The base map has effective but unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks (heights in feet), deserts, etc. Colouring prominently highlights national or state parks, forests & other protected areas, as well as Indian Reservations & military zones. Road network clearly shows road numbers, indicates free & toll highways with locations of services, & gives driving distances on interstate & primary routes. The maps also show Amtrak railway lines with stations, local airports, state borders & time zone boundaries. An extensive range of symbols indicate various places of tourist interest. Each map is indexed & for GPS navigation has latitude & longitude lines drawn at 30’ intervals. Each title also

Includes:: enlargements of most visited areas – please see individual descriptions for more information – & useful tourist information such as metric conversion tables, traffic signs, phone numbers/websites for many organizations including recommended accommodations, etc. Map legends & all the text include English.

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Pacific Ocean on a folded map from Hema with one side a map of the whole of the Pacific showing political boundaries of various countries & dependencies, & on the reverse separate panels presenting various states & island groups in greater detail. On one side is a map of the Pacific Ocean extending west to include the whole of Australia, the Philippines & the coastal regions of China & southern Siberia. In the north coverage goes beyond Kamchatka & the Aleutian Islands to show part of Alaska. In the east, most of North American continent is included, but on the coastline of South America. Countries are in different colours & on the Pacific itself political boundaries of various states & dependencies are marked. Also shown is the International Date Line, but the current edition shows the situation pre-2012, before Samoa & Tokelau Islands moved to the other side of the line. On the reverse separate panels at various scales show individual states & groups. For larger islands the maps have a plain green base with, where appropriate, spot heights & show main towns/settlements & main roads. The panels show: Tinian & Saipan with the smaller islands of the Northern Marianas, Marshall Islands, Guam, Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) including the Tarawa Atoll, Nauru, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Wallis & Futuna, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, New Caledonia, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, Tahiti with French Polynesia, Lord Howe Isl&, Norfolk Isl&, Pitcairn Islands, Easter Isl&, the Galapagos, & Hawaii. Each panel has margin ticks for latitude & longitude. ...

A topographic map showing the ocean floor around Australia, southeast Indonesia, & down to New Zeal&. Below the waterline the ocean bed is shown with depth divisions in shades of blue with contour lines at 1, 000m intervals (below 1, 000m). Above the waterline the land is shown physically with height divisions in shades of brown with contour lines at 1, 000m intervals (above 1, 000m), with rivers & lakes also shown. In both cases only the physical features are named. Overlaying the ocean detail are the faint lines followed by the hydrographic surveys, & a latitude (5 degree intevals) & longitude (10 degree intervals) grid. Spot heights/depths are shown. ...

Printed on tear & water-proof paper this is a quality map showing all the physical features of the sea-bed &

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The South Pacific Islands conjure dreams of romantic charm & escape from the pressures of modern life
- but is this a true picture
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In “ Pacific Passages
- Travelling the South Seas” travel writer Hans-Christof Wächter sails to Vanuatu, Ovalau, Fiji, Rarotonga
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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world`s largest body of water, &
- in matters economic, political & military
- the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis & Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny & the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook & his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson & Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin & the explosion of the largest-ever American atomic bomb, on Bikini atoll, in 1951. It has an astonishing recent past, an uncertain present & a hugely important future. The ocean & its peoples are the new lifeblood, fizz & thrill of America
- which draws so many of its minds & so much of its manners from the sea
- while the inexorable rise of the ancient center of the world, China, is a fixating fascination. The presence of rogue states
- North Korea most notoriously today
- suggest that the focus of the responsible world is shifting away from the conventional post-war obsessions with Europe & the Middle East, & towards a new set of urgencies. Navigating the newly evolving patterns of commerce & trade, the world`s most violent weather & the fascinating histories, problems & potentials of the many Pacific states, Simon Winchester`s thrilling journey is a grand depiction of the future ocean.





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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world`s largest body of water, &
- in matters economic, political & military
- the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis & Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny & the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook & his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson & Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin & the explosion of the largest-ever American atomic bomb, on Bikini atoll, in 1951. It has an astonishing recent past, an uncertain present & a hugely important future. The ocean & its peoples are the new lifeblood, fizz & thrill of America
- which draws so many of its minds & so much of its manners from the sea
- while the inexorable rise of the ancient center of the world, China, is a fixating fascination. The presence of rogue states
- North Korea most notoriously today
- suggest that the focus of the responsible world is shifting away from the conventional post-war obsessions with Europe & the Middle East, & towards a new set of urgencies. Navigating the newly evolving patterns of commerce & trade, the world`s most violent weather & the fascinating histories, problems & potentials of the many Pacific states, Simon Winchester`s thrilling journey is a grand depiction of the future ocean.





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