Map No. 245, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.* *IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.*

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A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie`s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory`s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, & Hercule Poirot & Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames & suspicious foreigners to find the killer & prevent a global catastrophe. BLACK COFFEE was Agatha Christie`s first playscript, originally performed in 1930 & made into a now rarely-seen film the following year. Combining her typically beguiling plot & sparkling dialogue with his own faithful narrative, Charles Osborne`s novelisation is `A worthy addition to the Christie canon` (The Spectator) ...

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper & ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world & bring them to you.` Henry Rollins, renowned spoken-word performer, musician, actor & author of several books, has a unique, hard-edged view of the world. This collection of writings from 1989
- 1991 is the classic Rollins book. From dramatic fiction shorts detailing stark, disturbing realities to gut-wrenching tour journals destroying all misconceptions of the glamour of fame & the music industry; from the challenging poetry to revealing dream sequences, Rollins` writing is unflinching in its honesty, uncompromising in its truth & irresistibly addictive.
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Catherine Bailey`s ” Black Diamonds” is an extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest & the downfall of a mining dynasty. Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest & largest Georgian house in Britain & belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. It is England`s forgotten palace which belonged to Britain`s richest aristocrats. ” Black Diamonds” tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, & a tragic & violent death played their part. But coal, one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century British politics, lies at its heart. This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century. ” Magnificent.. .peels back the grand facade of Wentworth toreveal a family riven with fueds, mental illness & forbidden love”. (” Tatler”). ”A compelling new history.. .fascinating insights into the dynasty that once ruled this Yorkshire roost”. (” Daily Mail”). ” An aristocratic tale of epic proportions, this gripping novel cleverly interweaves interviews, letters & historical fact.. . Fascinating”. (” Easy Living”). Catherine Bailey read history at Oxford University. She is a successful, award-winning television producer & director, making a range of critically acclaimed documentary films inspired by her interest in twentieth century history. She is the author of ” Black Diamonds” & ” The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery”. She lives in West London. ...

Richly observed, this witty & yet deeply moving tale of Charlotte Hobson`s year travelling around Russia takes us to the heart of a country that we are continually interested in, yet can struggle to underst&. As the TLS put it, Hobson writes with `such a beguiling directness that it is hard not to feel intimate with her & her characters. Few books evoke so much of Russian life, with so little effort.` Each chapter is a bonne bouche, possessing its own particular flavour, from sweet to acrid-bitter. Hobson`s characters are often wonderfully quixotic & so is the spirit she finds everywhere at this crux in Russia`s history. She drinks with derelicts, hangs out with gypsies, & watches investigators go about the grim business of exhuming purge victims, & giving them the Christian burial they have been denied for seventy years. Her style is deft: she manages to render the scenes through which she passes with needle-sharp precision.` Financial Times ...

Once again, Russia stands at a crossroads getting by on little but faith, vodka & a blithe indifference to the moral & financial bankruptcy looming from all sides. Andrew Meier`s stunning debut explains a state in collapse. It explains how millions of Russians have been displaced by the death of an ideology. It seeks to explain how the Russian government can increase defence spending by 50% whilst the poverty line cuts through a third of its households, & the people face epidemics of AIDS, TB, alcoholism & suicide. Russia`s story is told through the voices of Russians who live at the five corners of the nation. It is a dramatic portrait of Russia at a time when the old regime has given way, but the new has yet to take hold. Meier has travelled to the extremes
- north to Norilsk above the arctic circle; east to Sakhalin, south to Vladikavkaz & west to St. Petersburg. & to Moscow. Andrew Meier`s writing is classic, poised, poignantly observant & richly human. No one has yet captured the historical, cultural & political disintegration of Russia as well as him.
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We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits & ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the East, many on the fertile black earth that the Nazis believed would feed the German people. It comforts us to believe that the Holocaust was a unique event. But as Timothy Snyder shows, we have missed basic lessons of the history of the Holocaust, & some of our beliefs are frighteningly close to the ecological panic that Hitler expressed in the 1920s. As ideological & environmental challenges to the world order mount, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think. Timothy Snyder`s Bloodlands was an acclaimed exploration of what happened in eastern Europe between 1933 & 1945, when Nazi & Soviet policy brought death to some 14 million people. Black Earth is a deep exploration of the ideas & politics that enabled the worst of these policies, the Nazi extermination of the Jews. Its pioneering treatment of this unprecedented crime makes the Holocaust intelligible, & thus all the more terrifying. ...

Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic history of American piracy`s ” Golden Age”-spanning the late 1600s through to the early 1700s-when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America & beyond. Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown & then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour & extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period. Also brilliantly detailed are the pirates` manifold enemies. Upending misconceptions & cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this original account of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life. ...

WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison & spread to become the world`s greatest threat. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind & soon the architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. In Black Flags, an unprecedented character-driven account of the rise of ISIS, Joby Warrick shows how the zeal of this one man & the strategic mistakes of Western governments led to the banner of ISIS being raised over huge swathes of Syria & Iraq. Zarqawi began by directing terror attacks from a base in northern Iraq, but it was the allied invasion in 2003 that catapulted him to the head of a vast insurgency. By falsely identifying him as the link between Saddam Hussein & Osama bin Laden, Western officials inadvertently spurred like-minded radicals to rally to his cause. Their wave of brutal beheadings & suicide bombings persisted until American & Jordanian intelligence discovered clues that led to a lethal airstrike on Zarqawi`s hideout in 2006. His movement, however, endured. First calling themselves al-Qaeda in Iraq, then Islamic State of Iraq & Syria, or ISIS, his followers sought refuge in unstable, ungoverned pockets on the Iraq-Syria border. When the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, & the rest of the world largely stood by, ISIS seized its chance to pursue Zarqawi`s dream of an ultra-conservative Islamic caliphate. Drawing on unique high-level access to global intelligence sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats & spies, generals & heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda & tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant & definitive history that reveals the long arc of today`s most dangerous extremist threat. ...