In Amazon Bruce Parry undertakes another epic journey, in the same vein as his adventures in Tibe, tracing the 6, 000km route of the Amazon river from source to ocean. Along the way Bruce meets the people who live & work there. The truths he discovers are often frightening, but always eye-opening, reminding us that the Amazonia’s fate touches us all. ...

The Amazon basin of Brazil at 1:2, 500, 000 from Nelles Verlag, with insets and/or enlargements the main cities of the region: Manaus, Belém, Macapá, Santarem, Parintins, Tabatinga with Leticia in Colombia, & Iquitos in Peru. Coverage inside Peru extends to Yurimaguas & beyond Pucallpa to Tingo Mariá. The map divides the whole region west/east, with a generous overlap & Manaus shown on both sides. Relief shading with spot heights present the topography, with graphics for marshlands & swamps. Numerous tributaries are named & a large number of local settlements are shown on the map. National parks & other protected area as well as Indian Reservations are marked. Road network distinguishes between local highways in good & poor condition &

Includes:: partially surfaced roads & cart tracks. The map also indicates airports & local airfields & highlights various places of interest. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 2° intervals. The map has no index of localities. Map legend

Includes:: English. Insets show street plan annotated with various places of interest & facilities in the centres of Manaus, Belém, Macapá, Santarem, Parintins, Tabatinga with Leticia in Colombia, & Iquitos in Peru. Also provided are enlargements for areas around Manaus & Iquitos highlighting tourist accommodation.



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Double-sided, indexed map covering the whole of the Amazon basin from the eastern slopes of the Andes to its delta, dividing the area east/west. Along the Andes the coverage stretches from north of Bogota to south of La Paz, whilst the eastern half extends from the borders of Venezuela & the Guyanas to approx. 16º south. Elevation tinting with spot heights is used to indicate the relief. Swamps, seasonal rivers & other watercourses are shown. All normal details, i.e. roads, towns/cities, airports, railways, are included, as well as internal administrative boundaries & names. National parks & protected area are marked. Where appropriate, disputed international boundaries are indicated. The map has very faint lines of latitude (at 4º) & longitude (at 2º), although not consistently throughout its whole area. ...

At last, an alternative to the Harrison Ford-style travel adventure! Amazon Dream is the real story of a woman's journey into

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Amazon in the Bradt’s new Highlights series exploring the country’s most popular places, routes & itineraries as selected by some of the world’s leading travel writers & tour operators. The guide

Includes:: national parks, cruises, activities & cultural sites & more. The guide is designed to present readers with the destination’s main highlights & must-see attractions to help travellers select the best route for an organised tour or plan an independent trip. It provides practical & useful guidance on making the most of their visit & colour photographs features throughout. Individual guides in this series have extensive introductory chapters on the local history, people & culture; the geography of the region & its natural landscape, including wildlife. Chapters dealing with practicalities include Planning a Trip & life On the Ground, providing comprehensive information on when & where to go, getting there, red tape, health & safety, cultural etiquette etc. The ‘ Highlights’ part of the guide focuses on the attractions, sites or experiences that are unique to the region or country. Detailed advice & recommendations from Brandt’s expert authors with a focus on things to see & do are provided, as well as concise listings on accommodation & eating out options.A couple of pages are dedicated to essential vocabulary & a list of recommended reading.

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One of the titles in a series of maps of the administrative departments of Peru, with topography shown by altitude colouring & spot heights. Most maps also indicate cultivated areas. Scales vary considerably, given different sizes of the departments. Railways & four different types of roads & dirt tracks are shown, as well as local airports & aerodromes. The maps also show the subdivisions of the departments into provinces & districts, indicating administrative capital of each unit. Most sheets also include a panel with general information about the state (e.g. population distribution, climate, etc.). Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 1º intervals, making this series very useful for identifying the locations of small places on the 1:100, 000 topographic survey of the country. Map legend is in Spanish only. Publication dates vary from mid-1980s to mid-1990s, with a handful of titles revised later. Each map shows one department only & no detail of any kind is given for the adjacent departments, beyond their names. ...

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills & routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their existence & attempted to trace their origins. Artists & poets celebrated their battles & wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of the world`s greatest river, & named it after them. In the absence of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth & storytelling. Until now. Following decades of new research & a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia, from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China, to discover the truth about the warrior women mythologized as Amazons. In this deeply researched, sweeping historical epic, Man redefines our understanding of the Amazons & their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world & examining its significance today. ...

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. ...

The unstoppable Anne Mustoe tackles the Amber Route, the Santa Fe Trail & the Pilgrim Way to Santiago de Compostela: three very different but equally evocative journeys rich in history & spectacular landscape. Amber beads have been highly prized for their magnetic power & beauty for millennia, making their way from the Baltic Sea to ancient Greece, Rome & medieval Europe. Santa Fe is synonymous with tales of the Old West, & the author weaves a colourful story of prospecting & trading along its trail. The shrine of Santiago de Compostela draws thousands of Christian pilgrims each year, but the route to it still provides the endurance & adventure necessary to a pilgrimage. Treading the path to it was known in medieval times as `taking the cockle` Â & the cockleshell is still carried today by those who traverse along the Way. All three odysseys cross extraordinary towns & fascinating environments, & the author`s warm & accessible style brings alive the history & magic of the places she writes about. ...

Amberg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Kastl, Ammerthal, Hahnbach, Ursensollen. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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