All the foul facts about the Vicious Vikings are ready to uncover, including including Viking Gods in wedding dresses, corpses on trial & Death by booby-trapped statues. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

All the foul facts about the Vile Victorians are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn`t hang, when the first public loo was flushed & how stag hunting took place in Paddington Station. Refreshed with a fantastic new design for 2016, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. ...

TOP 50 VILLAINS is packed full of foul facts & loathsome lists all about vile villains. From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history & discover how they schemed & terrified their way to the top. Find out who made flutes from the bones of his victims, who escaped prison by locking a policeman in his own cells, who drowned his brother in a barrel of wine & much, much more. It`s all the gore & more in our most horrible book yet! ...

Apparently the ancient Greeks were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn`t start school until they were seven, & girls didn`t have to go at all. But it wasn`t always so jolly. Readers can discover who had the world`s first flushing toilet & why dedicated doctors tasted their patients` ear wax! With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author & illustrated throughout to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers. 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

This harrowing tale of supernatural suspense kicks off a new series from the visionary mind of 1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. When a plane crash-lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice & snow. Instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home & little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. & the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before--from razor-beaked shredder birds to carnivorous vines & much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques & rivalries threaten to tear them apart. & not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive. ...

The worlds rhinoceroses face extinction because a part of their anatomy is valued too much. Poachers hunt & slaughter them because their horns are treasured. Once an estimated 100, 000 black rhinos roamed from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope but now less than 3 per cent remain. In all of Africa, there is but a single infenced population numbering more than 100 individuals, in the inhospitable barrens of the Namib Desert. The hunger for money has resulted in the deaths of more than 160 Zimbabwean poachers as they tried to kill fro the valuable horns, Few options remain to stop the deadly harvest, Although guarded sanctuaries may now be working in Kenya, elsewhere foot patrols, helicopters, & high tech solutions have been tried & most have failed. In 1989 a radical strategy has developed
- cutting the horns, The rationale is simple. If a rhino has no horns, the incentive to kill it should disappear. What has since unfolded is a biological & political drama, Carol Cunningham & Joel Berger describe their passionate quest to help conserve Africa`s black rhinos. Arriving with their 19 month old daughter in the fiercely independent country of Namibia, they undertook a fascinating study to understand how horns are involved in the social lives of this charismatic species. This book blends natural history & biology, adventure & adrenaline. Africans & local attitudes. It moves beyond the typical nature study by bringing in real world components of conservation
- the delicate mix of western science, politics & economics, & personal despair & hope.

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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000. The series was last revised in the early eighties. Contour interval is 20 meters. In addition to the usual features shown on survey mapping, the maps also include a large amount of information indicating the type of the terrain & land use (block or smooth surfaced lava, clay, boulders, sand & dunes, cultivated area, meadows, pastures, bogs, wetlands, etc.) & details not often found on maps: physicians` residences, parsonages, etc. Each map covers an area of 44 x 40 km / 27 x 25 miles. Margin ticks give latitude & longitude in steps of 6`. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Hornafjörður, map no. 25, in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000 published by Mál og menning, with excellent, vivid presentation of the terrain, footpaths & bridleways, campsites, etc. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by bold relief shading plus colouring and/or graphics to show glaciers, lava fields, sands & mudflats, as well as to distinguish land with vegetation cover from the more sparsely covered terrain. The series provides a splendid presentation of the country’s topography, with large amount of detail & over 43, 000 place names. Road network indicates gravel roads &

Includes:: country tracks. Also marked are local footpaths, clear to see with their distinctive colouring, & bridleways. Symbols shows campsites, tourist huts or shelters, emergency shelters, summer houses, river fords, golf courses & swimming pools, hydro-electric or thermal power stations, local airports, etc, & detail such as individual farms, abandoned farms or ruins, sheepfolds, etc. Each map covers an area of 84 x 67km (53 x 42 miles approx.) & has latitude & longitude lines drawn at intervals of 2’ & 5’ respectively. Map legend

Includes:: English, German & French. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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1805, & Hornblower is both humbled & honoured in quick succession... After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon the Atropos is part of the Mediterranean fleet`s assault upon Napoleon, & Captain Hornblower must execute a bold & daring salvage operation for buried treasure lying deep in Turk waters. Under the guns of a suspicious port captain & the threat of a Spanish frigate more than double Atropos`s size, Hornblower must steer his ship unscathed & triumphant... This is the fourth of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester`s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. ...

The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon`s plans to invade England... Set in 1805, Hornblower & the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious h&-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission that will light the powder trail leading to the battle of Trafalgar... Hornblower & the Crisis was unfinished at the time of Forester`s death, but the author left notes
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- telling us how the tale would end. Also included are two further stories
- Hornblower & the Widow Mc Cool & The Last Encounter
- that tell of Hornblower as a very young & very old man, respectively. This is the final book chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester`s inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower.



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