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. ...

Aspull South in 1928 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 southern part of Aspull, now part of Wigan borough. Coverage stretches from Top Lock northward to the Crawford Pits, & eastward to Gidlow Hall. The map shows an industrial area on the verge of decline, for most of the collieries & railways would be closed within a few years. Features include Albion Iron Works, Top Lock & stretch of Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Woodshaw Pit (disused), Bradshaw Hall, Pennington Hall, Gidlow Hall, St Elizabeth`s church, LMSR Springs Branch, Highfield Delf, eastern part of New Springs, Marsh House Coke Works (disused), Bent Houses, Duke`s Row, Crawford Pits, Simm`s Square, Aspull Pumping Pit, Scot Lane Colliery (No. 4 Pit), mineral railways, etc. 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. ...

Assam in a series of locally produced administrative maps of Indian states, each with a booklet providing a guide to the area. The maps show the division of each state into districts & have more small towns & villages than on more general maps of India available from other publishers. Presentation is now considerably enhanced with the districts shown in different colours. The maps indicate each district ...

Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue
- it is the disturbing & mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, &
- the author`s favourite
- historical tourism. Skilfully belying the undercurrents of loss & violence that course through her journey, Vowell injects a range of lighter detours along the way, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult
- & exactly how Lincoln`s Republican Party became Bush`s Republican Party. Assassination Vacation is a fascinating, informative, & richly entertaining look at the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered & shaped our nation`s history.



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In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther & godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI`s most wanted terrorist list. Assata Shakur`s trial & conviction for the murder of a white state trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America. Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations & police brutality in the USA. While Assata`s detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign to criminalize & suppress black nationalist organizations. This intensely personal & political autobiography reveals a sensitive & gifted woman, far from the fearsome image of her that is projected by the powers that be. With wit & candour Assata recounts the formative experiences that led her to embrace a life of activism. With pained awareness she portrays the strengths, weaknesses & eventual demise of black & white revolutionary groups at the hands of the state. A major contribution to the history of black liberation, destined to take its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X & the works of Maya Angelou. ...

Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras & a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees & prostitutes, soldiers & beggars, street executions & urban protests photographed in difficult & often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, & chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, & Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country`s financial, cultural, & commercial capital. His effort to show China`s misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce`s fervent anti-communism, & for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life`s archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution. Seen through the lens of hindsight, Birns`s photographs give us a sense not only of what China was like more than fifty years ago, but also of why the warfare, weariness, & desperation of the time proved such fertile soil for communist revolution. Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people--pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners--tell a story of national resilience & dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, & fear. Birns`s stark black & white photographs capture the dramatic end of an era, but they also look forward, letting us glimpse how Shanghai`s past prefigures the city`s commercial & cultural revival in the 1990s. ...

Map No. 665, Assisi
- Camerino
- Foligno
- M. Pennino, from Kompass in a series of walking maps of selected areas of Italy


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