Indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map of Angola at 1:1, 400, 000 with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. Coverage

Includes:: Cabinda. The country’s topography is presented by altitude colouring with contours, spot heights, mountain passes, & names of mountain ranges. The map also shows salt lakes, swamps & seasonal rivers. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces. Road network

Includes:: unsurfaced local roads & 4WD tracks, & shows driving distances on main routes plus locations of petrol stations. Border crossings to Namibia indicate their opening times. Railways, ferry connections & local airfields are also shown. National parks & protected zones are clearly marked & symbols highlight numerous places of interest, tourist accommodation, medical facilities, etc. The map has a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 1°. The index of localities

Includes:: a list of national parks & nature reserves. Map legend

Includes:: English.







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Map No. M-3D in the TPC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:500, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. TPC stands for Tactical Pilotage Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 500ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each TPC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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Karl Maier was the Angola correspondent for The Independent & Washington Post for 10 years, & provides a fascinating analysis of the realities behind the conflict as well as a vivid eye-witness account of the devastation it brought. Whether speaking to soldiers, nurses, black-market traders or aid workers, he views Angola`s strife with a rare sympathy for the ordinary people caught in the crossfire. Sceptical of both sides` promises & lies, his is a classic account of one of the civil wars that continue to plague Africa. Angola`s civil war was the longest in Africa. Once the battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers, the country was supposed to become a model for a smooth transition from armed conflict to democracy. The government, earlier backed by the Soviet Union & Cuba, & the UNITA rebels, supported by the Americans & South Africans, would exchange bullets for ballots — but it all went wrong
- UNITA`s Jonas Savimbi rejected his defeat in the elections & plunged Angola back into war. The United Nations could only wring its hands, eventually negotiating a fragile new peace agreement. For most Angolans, however, the effects of a quarter of a century of violence have proved to be more enduring than the taste of peace. This edition covers the massive corruption & other problems that have arisen since the ending of the war with Savimbi`s death. Armed conflict has been replaced by an oil boom that has benefited only the country`s elite — as Maier observes, the vast majority of Angolans now face `a war of neglect by their rulers`.
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Street plan of Angoulême, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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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. ...

Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he`d never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation & sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body & his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, & the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis & fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern ? the ultra-traditionalism, ritual & violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs & scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century ? to provide an entertaining & captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Anguilla in a series of tourist maps of the Caribbean islands from the Barbados-based Skyview Inc combining a map of the isl&, a plan of The Valley & extensive tourist information on various services & facilities. Rather than providing conventional mapping with topography, detailed road network, etc., Skyview maps give a more generalize picture of main roads & access to the numerous facilities highlighted on their maps. On the Anguilla map colouring indicates the island’s taxi zones & symbols show beaches, snorkeling/diving & kite surfing sites, bird watching & horse riding sites, golf courses, & many other local facilities. An enlargement shows in greater detail The Valley (taxi zones 5 & 6) including the Clayton Lloyd International Airport. Colour coded icons cross-referenced to the information on the reverse show locations of over sixty selected services, grouped into hotels & resorts, real estate & villa rentals, small inns, car/taxi/bicycle hire, shopping & services, restaurants, land & sea activities, sailing, spas, weddings, plus art galleries. ...

Topographic survey map of Anguilla with the Prickly Pear Cays, plus Dog & Scrub Islands shown as insets. The map has contours at 25 feet intervals & indicates various types of vegetation & terrain: forests, scrub, palms, swamps & mangroves, plantations, cliffs & flat rocks, etc. Built up areas are marked, with schools, churches, police stations, etc. Also shown are wells & water tanks, archaeological sites, local parish boundaries & the island ...

Anguilla at 1:25, 000 on an indexed map from the Caribbean-based cartographer Michal Kasprowski highlighting beaches & water sports sites, plus an enlargement at 1:15, 000 of The Valley area including the island’s airport. Main roads are highlighted & named & the map also shows names of many smaller local roads & indicates locations of petrol stations. Also marked are cart tracks & footpaths. Symbols show beaches & water sport sites, lighthouses, places of worship, ferry ports, etc. The map has contours at 20m intervals, with a few spot heights, plus colouring to show woodlands. Along the coast reefs are marked. Latitude & longitude lines are marked at 1’ intervals. An enlargement at 1:15, 000 presents The Valley area in greater detail. ...