Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Salonica City of Ghosts is Mark Mazower’s history of Christians, Muslims & Jews in Salonica (modern day Thessaloniki in Greece) between 1430 & 1950. Salonica was, for five centuries, a Mediterranean port where East met West, home to one of the most extraordinarily diverse societies in Europe. A microcosm of world history, Salonica’s Roman ruins & Byzantine monasteries, synagogues & mosques, Jewish dock workers, Ukrainian slaves, Greek shopkeepers, Ottoman pachas & Albanian brigands were testament to a tolerant imperial world where creeds & languages mingled & clashed in an atmosphere of shared piety. ...

Cambrils plus Salou with La Pineda on an indexed street plan at 1:12, 500 from Telstar Distrimapas, Spain’s leading publisher of city maps, with on the reverse multilingual descriptions of places of interest in the three locations. On one side are two panels with plans of Cambrils & of Salou & La Pineda, with each resort given a separate street index. On the reverse is an overview map of the Tarragona region at 1:320, 000, plus multilingual descriptions of various places of interest in the three towns. ...

Salpa Bhanjyang
- Baksila, sheet no. 2786-12, in the topographic survey of Nepal at 1:50, 000 published by the Nepali Government
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Salsa Around the World is a unique collection of hip-shaking salsa tracks from unexpected places. The intoxicating rhythms & joyful melodies of Latin American salsa have traveled the globe, earning new followers & influencing artists from Haiti to Helsinki. CD Track listing:1 Salsa Celtica, ' El Sol de la Noche' (Scotland) 2 Havana Mambo, ' Malani ...

` These were the nights when the German bombers growled through the sky, their bellies full with steel & cordite. When the moon was low their dark shapes & still darker shadows came over the coast. Several hours later they`d return again, wearily, lighter in weight, fewer in number, dropping the occasional bomb on the forgotten land of creeks & channels beneath them. On one of those nights it all began for me
- war, after all, starts many things, & even though I wasn`t born for another twenty-five years, my story began there.` It is May 1945 & as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose`s daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose`s world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound
- or so the story goes
- for Germany, his home. Forty years later it is Lil`s son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family`s fragmented history. Who was his grandfather, who fell from the sky into Goose`s life & then disappeared as suddenly as he came? What was the truth of his mother, Lil, who lived & lost her way between the creeks & the samphire? & what does it all mean for Pip, whose heritage of flood, fireworks, fish & clouds, has left him ill-prepared for life beyond the marshes?


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For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word salary), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, & Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, & mingled in the blood, sweat, & tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms -- underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, & pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas. From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist & philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of white gold. With enthusiasm & freshness (Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, & linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world & brings zest to the ordinary. Laszlo explains the history behind Morton Salt's slogan When it rains, it pours! & looks into the plight of the salt miner, as well as spectroscopy & nuclear magnetic resonance. Salt is a tour de force about a chemical compound that is one of the very foundations of civilization. ...

In apartheid southern Africa, a three-year-old girl named Koba is snatched from her Kalahari desert tribe after witnessing her parents' brutal murder by white farmers. A hunting party discovers the Bushman group poaching on their property, & a white farmer is killed by a poisoned arrow. The orphaned child is taken in by a liberal white woman called Marta, & Koba finds herself trapped in a terrifying new world. She slowly learns to adapt & survive in a cave isolated from the farm's dangerous but beautiful environment. Koba grows up quickly & as a teenager learns 'white' ways alongside Marta's son, Mannie, a boy her own age, while never forgetting the pull of her own desert people. One weekend though, when Marta & her husband are away, a passionate love affair develops between Mannie & Koba which questions all their assumptions & loyalties, bringing down upon them all the force of the law. ...

This book mixes the unusual recipe of a large helping of history, a decent portion of politics, a drop of geology & major injection of home economics. Blended together carefully, the outcome is a fascinating story & journey around the world that constantly surprises & enlightens the reader. Adding a sprinkling of salt to your dinner will never quite feel the same again. ...

The Rain Shakers are novelty, cloud shaped salt & pepper pots. Season your dishes with a downpour from the flat-bottomed grey & white clouds & be your own culinary weather man... Salt moving in on a Siberian wind from the east? Or pepper ominously looming in on the Gulf Stream? A cruet set to get dinner conversation going. ...