This is a magnificent biography of Martha Gellhorn, whose fearless reporting from the front made her a legend, & whose private life was often messy & volcanic. Ernes Hemingway sent her a telegram: ` Are you a war correspondent or my wife in bed?` She shook herself free of him, & chose to go adventuring. Martha Gellhorn`s journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century. As a young woman, she was a witness of the suffering in America caused by the Depression. She risked her life in the Spanish Civil War, which was the subject of some of her finest writing. During the Second World War she covered the fall of Czechoslovakia & the Normandy Landings, the liberation of Dachau & the Nuremberg Trials. She reported from Vietnam & Israel; & at the age of 81 was covering the US invasion of Panama. All her life, Martha fought against injustice, & she always looked for the human story. She was influenced by two older women: her mother, who was a social reformer, & Eleanor Roosevelt. Her books of reporting & travel reflected her personality & her courage, her novels her shrewd & ironic eye; both were often very funny. Martha`s letters (many of which are"ed in this biography) are delightful
- passionate, ebullient & no-holds-barred.
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Martha's Vineyard in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

The coldness of the climate, the dark, the harshness of country life: all are woven into the fabric of a raw & timeless story where the portrayal of the animal world is unflinching, & the human beast plods on relentlessly toward what seems the inevitability of the tragic end. ...

The new Supertrail Maps show the best singletrails in Europe’s hottest mountain bike spots. These unique topographic maps make the knowledge of locals available to other mountain bikers. Consistent difficulty rating & useful additional information prevent the user from critical situations on the trails. The best singletrails in the best mountain bike spots throughout Europe
- this is the convincing formula of the brand new Supertrail Maps. For the first time ever, these unique topographic maps make the knowledge of locals available to others. All the trails on a map have been biked & rated in five difficulty levels for up- & downhill separately by specially trained authors. This consistent rating facilitates tour planning & spares a user from getting into sketchy situations on the trails. In addition to the difficulty rating, extraordinary nice trails are marked with a «highlight»-pictogram. The maps in a scale of 1:50 000 show all information required for tour planning & orienting oneself on the trails, such as: difficulty, highlight-trails, mountain railways with mountain bike transport, mountain bike shuttles, dangerous falls, restaurants, bike shops, emergency numbers & touristic infopoints. Thanks to the especially chosen map section, one map covers the whole area. The Supertrail Maps are printed on tear- & waterproof foil which makes them very sturdy. On the back of any map, additional information about the area & the use of a Supertrail Map are presented in two languages. Folded

Dimensions of 10x 15cm allow the map to fit into any pocket without squeezing.


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Martigny Mountain Bike Map, covering the Sion
- Verbier
- Orsières area, at 1:50, 000 in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant,

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Martigny area, map No. 282T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Coverage extends from Verbier in the east to the upper part of the Chamonix Valley in France. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

Detailed ski map at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, the country’s national survey organization, showing routes for skiing and/or snowboarding, access by public transport, recommended itineraries, lists of mountain huts, etc. The series uses the cartography of Switzerland’s topographic survey, with additional colouring to show slopes steeper than 30°. An overprint highlights ski routes, indicating suggested direction, difficult passages & sections which must be covered on foot. Also marked are areas where it is forbidden to leave the routes shown on the map. The maps also highlight roads with bus routes, indicating individual bus stops, show ski lifts & funiculars, plus mark locations of refuges or other mountain accommodation. Each title has the Swiss national grid at intervals of 1km, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’. Some titles cover a larger area, with a part of an adjoining sheet printed on the reverse of the main map as indicated on our series grid. Where appropriate, ski information extends across the border to France & Italy. On the reverse are itineraries of routes recommended by the Swiss Alpine Club, indicating the degree of difficulty, plus lists of alpine huts with contact details. Map legend for the overprint

Includes:: English. The text about the routes & accommodation is in the main language of the area covered by the map. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Charles Dickens` powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy & greed, ” Martin Chuzzlewit” is edited with an introduction & notes by Patricia Ingham in ” Penguin Classics”. The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious & misanthropic, leaving his grandson & namesake to make his own way in the world. & so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin`s journey
- an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest & egotism
- Dickens created many vividly realized figures: the brutish lout Jonas Chuzzlewit, plotting to gain the family fortune; Martin`s optimistic manservant, Mark Tapley; gentle Tom Pinch; & the drunken & corrupt private nurse, Mrs Gamp. With its portrayal of greed, blackmail & murder, & its searing satire on America Dickens`s novel is a powerful & blackly comic story of hypocrisy & redemption. In her introduction, Patricia Ingham examines characterization, the central themes of the novel, & Dickens`s depiction of America. This edition also

Includes:: two new prefaces, Dickens`s postscript written in 1868, his working papers, a note on Mrs Gamp`s eccentric speech, a chronology, updated further reading, appendices & original illustrations by ` Phiz`. Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including ” Oliver Twist”, ” Great Expectations”, ”A Tale of Two Cities”, ” David Copperfield” & ” The Pickwick Papers”, have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions. If you enjoyed ” Martin Chuzzlewit”, you might like Dickens`s ” Dombey & Son”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”.



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Dan`s got a new job. But he`s moved out of town in order to start a family & had to start commuting into London every day, leaving his young wife Beth & newborn daughter at home. After fourteen months of the trains either making him late for work or late getting home, he`s had enough. Tracking down the email address of the MD of the train company, he starts to write him letters. Emails that take as long to write as the delay to his journey has been. If his time`s been wasted, why shouldn`t he waste the MD`s? & so begins an hilarious & extraordinary correspondence. When the MD begins to write back, Dan has a dysfunctional father-confessor to talk to
- one who he never imagined would care. In truth, he probably doesn`t. But Dan finds solace in opening up to a stranger about the dramas of his day job at a scandal-hit newspaper, the challenges of his night job as the father of a baby who isn`t sleeping, & about life as it is played out for a bit over an hour (well, sometimes longer) every morning & every evening in the confines of Coach C, while world events pass its odd mix of inhabitants by.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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