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Erna Low, born in Vienna in 1909, was instrumental in starting what has become a multimillion pound industry: the ski holiday business. In 1932, she placed an advert in the Morning Post saying ” Austria, fortnight, GBP15 only, including rail & hotel, arranged by young Viennese Graduette for young people leaving Christmas”. For her, it was a way to get back home to see her family over Christmas, but the popularity of the trip soon saw it develop into a lucrative business. Erna, an Austrian javelin champion & handball player, soon branched out into parties for the young elite at country houses around Britain, becoming something of a matchmaker for the 20- & 30-somethings who flocked to her events year after year. When war came to Europe, she joined the BBC, listening in on German broadcasts to help the Allied effort. After normality had been restored, she grasped the opportunity offered by rising standards of living & grew her eponymous company into a leading travel company in the market by the 1960s, introducing many holiday destinations & concepts to the British market.A consummate networker, Erna Low introduced herself to the great & the good & became their friend & confidante. She taught royalty, actors & politicians to ski. This illustrated hardback biography examines Erna`s life, including interviews with her friends & colleagues & shows how her strength of character & business nous enabled her to succeed in a male-dominated world. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of skiing & travel in Britain, the hundreds of thousands of past & present customers of Erna Low as well as anyone interested in how an independent young Austrian woman from a challenging background became a household name & business success in Britain. A foreword has been written by Roger Lloyd Pack. ”2012 is the 80th anniversary of the first Erna Low-organised ski trip. The current chief executive of her company has an amazing archive of material collected by Erna during her life & it was going through this that inspired me to write it, ” says author Mark about Aiming High. ...

The départments of Ain & Haute-Savoie in the French Alps at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of Annecy & Bourg-en-Bresse. Coverage extends from the Saône & the Rhône to the border, including the whole of Lake Geneva & Courmayeur on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. Numerous popular holiday destinations are covered, including Chamonix, St-Gervais-les-Bains, Megève, La Cluzas, Annecy, Albertville, Aix-les-Bains, Samoëns, Morzine, Evian-les-Bains, etc, as well as the highest part of the French Jura. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – the south-eastern corner with the Vanoise National Park is not included. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.



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Ainsworth in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the village of Ainsworth, midway between Bolton & Bury. Features include Christ Church, Hey Club Row, chapels, Moorside Mill, quarry, Ainsworth Hall, Anthony Fields, Ainsworth Hospital, & various outlying houses. Coverage extends eastward to Cockey Moor & westward to Breightmet Fold (in the south-westrn corner of map) on the outskirts of Bolton; features there include Breightmet Bleach Works, Red Bridge Mill. Harwood Lodge is in north-west corner of map. On the reverse is a directory of Ainsworth, plus portraits & information on John Miles, Mayor of Bolton, & John Battersby, Mayor of Bury, & their wives. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Ainsworth in 1908 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Ainsworth, midway between Bolton & Bury. Features include Christ Church, Hey Club Row, chapels, Moorside Mill, quarry, Ainsworth Hall, Anthony Fields, Ainsworth Hospital & various outlying houses. Coverage extends eastward to Cockey Moor & westward to Breightmet Fold (in the south-westrn corner of map) on the outskirts of Bolton; features there include Breightmet Bleach Works, Red Bridge Mill. Harwood Lodge is in north-west corner of map. On the reverse is a directory of Ainsworth, plus portraits & information on John Miles, Mayor of Bolton, & John Battersby, Mayor of Bury, & their wives. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Fold realistic paper models of some of the most astonishing aircraft & spacecraft ever designed! The Smithsonian`s National Air & Space Museum hosts seven million visitors annually; a testament to our enduring fascination with flight. Noted origami artist John Szinger has created this unique collection of 14 paper models inspired by real-life flying vehicles; from commercial jetliners to single- & multi-stage rockets, a re-entry space pod & even a UFO! Each model comes complete with a set of interesting facts about the vehicle as well as detailed step-by-step instructions showing you how to fold it. This box contains everything you need: a full-colour instruction book, 48 sheets of high-quality folding paper plus over 100 stickers to add the finishing details. Let your imagination soar with 14 original designs, including: A Supersonic Transport recalling the golden age of commercial hypersonic travel! The Space Pod, designed to safely return astronauts to earth through the intense heat of re-entry! A graceful Hot Air Balloon;make several to create your own miniature ballooning festival! An elusive Flying Saucer;try as they might, the government can`t conceal this one! A sci-fi inspired Art Deco Rocket with exaggerated fins & sleek lines! & many other thrilling origami air & space models! This kit
Includes:: A colourful 64-page step-by-step origami instructions book 14 exciting air & space origami projects 48 sheets of double-sided, custom designed folding paper 100+ colourful Stickers
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Every night across the country, viewers tune in to their evening news to glimpse the next day`s weather. They are treated to graphic images of invading air masses, colliding fronts, & growing tropical storms. This book is the story of this tool, the weather map, which in its many forms has made the atmosphere visible, understandable, & at least moderately predictable. No other maps are so spontaneously timely, so widely & frequently consulted, & so central to the daily activities of so many. The singular history of the weather map developed around the twin poles of weather`s many facets & the public`s varied needs. Mark Monmonier traces the contentious debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms & global change, explains the strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere & forecasting disaster, & exposes the efforts to detect & control air pollution. He introduces Karl Theodor, a Bavarian politician who devised one of the first weather-tracking networks in the late-18th century, & Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes, who drew the first maps of European weather in 1819
- for the year of 1783. Monmonier also explores the interaction between technology
- from the telegraph to the Internet
- & weather forecasting.


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Heard the one about the airline that has introduced `corpse cupboards` on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight? Heard about the amount of knickers & false teeth that are left behind in the body of the plane? Heard how pissed-off stewards put laxatives in your drinks? Heard about the pilot who ran out of runway? Heard of the disabled passengers who miraculously walk again? No? Then you haven`t read Air Babylon. Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane? Do you know how to dress for an upgrade? Do you know that one drink in the air equals three on the ground? Do you know who is checking you in? Who is checking you out? Do you know exactly what happens to your luggage once it leaves your sight? Is it secure? Are you safe? Do you really know anything about the business that you entrust your life to several times a year? Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, & the rapid descents of the travel industry. It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, & the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate service industry
- where the world is divided into those who wear the uniform & those who don`t...
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What is it about air travel that brings out the craziest, rudest & most ridiculous side of human nature? After fourteen years as an air steward Elliot Hester still doesn`t know. However, he does know all about crazy passengers, stressed-out crew & the infamous Mile High club. A tell-all expose from real-life experience, ” Air Confidential” reveals what really goes on behind the scenes & down the aisles of aeroplanes everywhere. We meet Miguel Mendoza, the playboy of the skies; Big Bertha, the flight attendant from hell; & the arrogant business man so terrified of mild turbulence he cries all the way to Miami. Packed full of scandalous tales of drunkenness, debauchery & generally bad behavior (and not just from the passengers), these stories are so funny you`ll choke on your complimentary mini-pretzels. ...

In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence
- the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory. Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF`s identity set it apart from the traditional services. It was innovative, flexible & comparatively meritocratic, advancing the quasi-revolutionary idea that competence was more important than background. The Air Force went into the war with inadequate machines, training & tactics, & the early phase was littered with setbacks & debacles. Then, in the summer of 1940, in full view of the population, Fighter Command won one of the decisive battles of the struggle. Thereafter the RAF was gilded with an aura of success that never tarnished, going on to make a vital contribution to Allied victory in all theatres. Drawing from diaries, letters, memoirs, & interviews, Air Force Blue captures the nature of combat in the skies over the corrugated wastes of the Atlantic, the sands of the Western Desert & the jungles of Burma. It also brings to life the intensely lived dramas, romances, friendships & fun that were as important a part of the experience as the fighting. Air Force Blue portrays the spirit of the RAF
- its heart & soul
- during its finest hours. It is essential reading for the millions in Britain & the Commonwealth whose loved ones served, & for anyone who wants to understand the Second World War.


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