The best rides in the freeride hot spots of the Alps – this is the simple formula of the Freeride Maps. The first map available to freeriders is making the locals freeride knowledge available to a broad public. All ridable slopes, drops & couloirs are marked as freeride corridors in different colours for three difficulty ratings: blue for technically easy terrain, yellow requires advanced to very advanced ability & red is extremely difficult terrain that is partially exposed & therefore reserved to crack riders. Short ascents are marked with red lines. The Freeride Maps are based on topographic maps 1:25, 000. They contain all essential information about the terrain that is necessary for planning & going freeriding. The maps are printed on water resistant & indestructible paper. On the back side, the maps include all relevant planning, safety & rescue information. ...

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 first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler`s 1939 classic The Big Sleep, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem & hundreds of illuminating notes & photographs alongside the full text, is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan`s library.A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler`s The Big Sleep helped to define a genre & remains one of the most celebrated & stylish novels of the twentieth century. Now, this comprehensive annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel, bringing the gritty & seductive world of Chandler`s iconic private eye Philip Marlowe into full color. Notes on the historical context of Chandler`s Los Angeles; excerpts from the author`s personal letters & source texts; explorations of the issues of gender, sexuality, & race that permeate the story; & important interpretations & clarifications enrich the reader`s understanding & situate the novel within the tradition of crime fiction that Chandler both built upon & made new. ...

Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:50, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, with vivid presentation of the terrain & an overprint for long-distance GR hiking trails. The series provides an excellent alternative to the much smaller sheets in the civilian or military surveys produced for the whole of Spain. The Catalan 50K series has not only a much larger area per sheet (each map covers one comarca, an administrative division of a province) than the maps from the national surveys, but also has more colourful, elegant & clear cartography with contours at 20m intervals, hill shading & fine graphics to portray the relief, vegetation types & landmarks. Most maps also have more tourist-related information, with an overprint highlighting long-distance GR trails & the Via Verde routes. Mountain refuges are marked & a range symbols indicate various places of interest including historical monuments, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Four different types of interesting locations are highlighted: picturesque towns or villages, individual isolated building or monuments, natural sites, & hydrographic features such as waterfalls. The maps have a 5km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Map legend is in Catalan only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Longer! Higher! Steeper! The sequel to the bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is packed with another century of stunning ...

Another America is the first book to present rare & seldom-seen maps made by Native Americans. These maps, which lay little known & little studied for the last three hundred years, open a window on the North American continent as it was understood & experienced by its original inhabitants. With meticulous research, this book brings to life the people, the places, & events of this Native American history. Each map is the focal point for a narrative on the traditions & experiences of the people involved with its creation. The historical & cultural context of the maps is used to illuminate the web of human, animal, natural, & spiritual relationships that shaped the Native American world. The maps record the efficiency of their oral traditions & the fullness with which the land was named, understood, & inhabited. They add a new depth of time to the North American landscape, & are a testament to human endurance & survival. ...

They used to be inseparable. They used to be young, brave & brilliant
- amazingly beautiful & terrifyingly alone. August, Sylvia,
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Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race & liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem & France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott & the friends who search for an understanding of his life & death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. ...

Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. It was just another day in America; an unremarkable Saturday on which ten children & teens were killed by gunfire. The youngest was nine; the oldest was nineteen. White, Black & Latino, they fell in suburbs, hamlets & ghettos. None made the national news. There was no outrage about their passing. It was just another day in the death of America, where on a daily average
- seven children & teens are killed by guns. Younge picked this day at random, searched for their families & tells their stories. The nine-year-old opened the door & was shot in the head by his mother`s ex-boyfriend. The eleven-year-old was killed by his friend at a sleep over in rural Michigan. The eighteen-year-old gang member, on Chicago`s South Side, was shot in a stairwell just days after being released from prison. Through ten moving chapters
- one for each child
- Younge explores the way these children lived & lost their short lives. He finds out who they were, who they wanted to be, the environments they inhabited, & what this might tell us about society at large. What emerges is a searing portrait of childhood & youth in contemporary America.


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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, & THE BREAD & ROSES AWARD. Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. & as befits an unremarkable day, ten children & teens were killed by gunfire. Far from being considered newsworthy, these everyday fatalities are simply a banal fact. The youngest was nine; the oldest nineteen. None made the news. There was no outrage at their passing. It was simply a day like any other day. Gary Younge picked it at random, searched for the families of these children & here, tells their stories. Another Day in the Death of America explores the way these children lived & lost their short lives, offering a searing portrait of the vulnerability of youth in contemporary America. ...