Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:100, 000, the Vägkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 79 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:100, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 75 x 80km. The maps have contours at 10 metre intervals, plus relief shading & colouring for different types of landscape: open l&, forests, alvar, marshes, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves, areas prohibited to cross-country vehicles, & restricted entry military zones are marked. The maps indicate privately maintained local roads, cycle paths with wind shelters, footpaths, etc, & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Sverigeserien is an outdoor map series consisting of 116 sheets with coverage of southern & central Sweden & the northern coastline. The map is suitable for outdoor activities such as hiking, excursions, trail running, hunting, fishing, riding, cycling, mountain biking, paddling, skating & much more. Every sheet covers an area of 45x 68km. These topographical maps in scale 1:50 000 contain all the information needed for outdoor activities: Terrain information, hiking trails, illuminated tracks, camping, shelters, golf courses, leisure baths, historical remains, roads in different categories, railway lines & much more. Easy to read topography with contour lines, vertical interval 5 m. Sverigeserien is a high-quality map series & is durable for frequent use! Updated content with map data from Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden) & printed on Polyart which is water & tear resistant. This means that the map can be folded repeatedly without breaking & can withstand the challenging weather in Sweden during both winter & summer. Legend is in Swedish, English & German. ...

Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous & inhospitable conditions on earth. Bauer`s writing brilliantly evokes Forell`s desperation in the prison camp, & his struggle for survival & terror of recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier & freedom. ...

Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, & Emma`s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk & by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown
- from which disaster Emma`s resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality. Emma`s sister Pam at once enlists with the WAAF & Jim, her politically minded brother, after initially declaring himself a pacifist, joins the RAF. But what should Emma, aged only sixteen, do? Secretarial collage equips her for a job with MI5 but it`s dull work & Emma yearns for fresh air. She is rescued by a scheme taking on girls as crew for canal boats. Freedom! The war over, Emma travels to India with a documentary film company, lives in Chelsea, falls in love in France & spends time in Paris where she sets about mending a broken heart by writing her first novel. Sitting beside the Seine during a heatwave with her typewriter on her knees, she is unwittingly snapped by legendary photographer Robert Doisneau. The zest, thirst for life & buoyant spirits of Emma, as she recalls in evocative detail the quality of England in the thirties & forties give As Green as Grass the feel of a ready-made classic.
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The death & burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. & as the intense desires, fears & rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power
- as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the second in Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy, following Cider With Rosie, & covers Lee's travels as a young man through Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. It was 1934 & a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin & by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere of the Spain he saw with all the freshness & beauty of a young man's vision, creating a lyrical & lucid picture of the beautiful & violent country that was to involve him inextricably. ...

The author of Cider with Rosie brings us an autobiographical tale that takes him away from home to new unfamiliar places.` The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass & caught there like a piece of sheep`s wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world.` Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring & playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field & knowing only the Spanish phrase for ` Will you please give me a glass of water?`, he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under & his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations. ...

When Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence & the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars, leave behind the hides & the nature reserves & the quiet companionship of his fellow birders. His love of birds didn`t disappear though. Rather, it went underground, & he began birdwatching in the books that he read, creating his own personal anthology of nature writing that brought the birds of his childhood back to brilliant life. Looking for moments `when heart & bird are one`, Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal & eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading & writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife. Moving from the `high requiem` of Keats`s nightingale to the crow-strewn sky at the end of Alan Garner`s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, from Ted Hughes`s brooding ` Hawk in the Rain` to the giddy anthropomorphism of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, this is a book that will make you look at birds, at the world, in a newer, richer light. Beautifully illustrated & illuminated by the celebrated graphic artist Neil Gower, As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a book to love & to hold, to return to again & again, to marvel at the way that authors across the centuries have captured the endless grace & variety of birds. ...