Asti Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Asti Province at 1:100, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Asti Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Aston Manor in 1913 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 heart of the large Aston Manor, including parts of Aston, Handsworth & Lozells Wards, as well as the area known as Birchfield. Coverage stretches from Stamford Road eastward to Beales Street & Electric Avenue, & from Deykin Avenue southward to Clifton Road. Features include Aston Hall, Aston Park, Villa Park, LNWR line with Witton station, St Peter & St Paul`s church, Bathurst Works, Howard Chandelier Works, tramways & depot, St Paul`s church Lozells, Holy Trinity church Birchfield, St James church, Lozells Picture House, Holte Almshouses, Pavilion Electric Theatre, Grammar School, police station, etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Birchfield Road, Frederick Road, Queen`s Road, Witton Lane & Witton Road. 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. ...

From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we experience it properly & fully for the first time. ` The hero of this novel finds what he did not seek, & goes where he did not intend to go. As I did in writing it.` BEN OKRI. ...

With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners & counterfeiters, attorneys & slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, & sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about travels to, in & from North America, Astray offers a past in scattered pieces, a surprising & moving history for restless times. ...

” Classic storytelling at its best, delightful & moving. I loved it.” M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy Maria Parr`s second novel is a hilarious & heart-warming story about family & friendship that will delight fans of Pippi Longstocking. Astrid Glimmerdal loves to spend her days racing down the mountainside on her sledge & skis
- the faster the better! She just wishes there were other children to share in her adventures. Instead, she has to put up with a grumpy 74 year old for a best friend (although secretly, she knows she wouldn`t have it any other way). Astrid`s world is about to be turned upside down, however, first by the arrival of a strange family, & then a mystery woman. Her best friend, Gunnvald, has been keeping a secret from her
- one that will test their friendship to its limits. Everything is changing in Astrid`s world & she`s not happy about it. Luckily, she has a plan...A feisty & irrepressible heroine, Astrid is sure to charm readers in this modern classic in the making.

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Whether you're a beginner or an expert star gazer, this planisphere is an informative, user-friendly guide to the stars & constellations. It features a detailed star disk & an overlay horizon disk. Together these two disks can be adjusted to show the visible nightime sky for any time of night, any night of the year.

Includes:: full instruction leaflet.

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Whether you're a beginner or an expert star gazer, this planisphere is an informative, user-friendly guide to the stars & constellations. It features a detailed star disk & an overlay horizon disk. Together these two disks can be adjusted to show the visible nightime sky for any time of night, any night of the year.

Includes:: full instruction leaflet.

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Here, at last, is a bright modern approach to astro navigation, for those wanting a little more than just a textbook to pass an exam. First there is a brief outline of the solar system & then a step by step guide to finding your position on the ocean, both with & without a pocket calculator for working out sun & star sights. Best of all are the outstanding colour illustrations to assist novices in star recognition. This book will prove a real boon to anyone struggling with lengthy sight reduction tables, & is a welcome modern addition to the subject. ...