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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In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnes Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape & passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest & interrogation, imprisonment & trial &, for Agnes, deportation to slave labour camp in Germany. Resistance is the secret journal of a woman who never gave up hope. ...

Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined & powerfully moving story of love & loss. ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Martin W. Sandler, Pulitzer Prize nominee, & Emmy[registered] Award winner, tackles the story of the Resolute
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A. N. Wilson`s powerful new novel explores the life & times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, & the golden age of Britain`s period of expansion & exploration. Wilson`s protagonist, witness to Cook`s brilliance & wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook`s second expedition to the southern hemisphere, & penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back & forth across time, to depict Forster`s time with Cook, & his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution. Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical & the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real & the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity & valour. ...

John Manners, Marquis of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War in 1760, losing both hat & wig. A commander of skill & courage, he was cherished by his men & lauded by the British public as an authentic military hero. Granby predeceased his father, the 3rd Duke of Rutl&, & never inherited his title, but left two sons whose contrasting fortunes & tragically short lives are the subject of this meticulously researched & richly illustrated book. Charles became 4th Duke in 1779, sought reconciliation with the American colonies & was Viceroy of Ireland; Robert embarked on a naval career, became flag captain of the Resolution & died of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Saintes. Based upon the detailed archives held at Belvoir Castle, Resolution is both an enthralling saga of two generations of the Manners family & a finely delineated portrait of aristocratic, political & naval life in mid-Georgian Engl&. ...

The 30th session of the IMO Assembly took place at the Headquarters of the Organization from 27 November to 6 December 2017. This publication contains, amongst others, resolutions pertaining to:• Revised Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by Administrations• Procedures for port State control, 2017• Code for the transport & handling of hazardous & noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (OSV Chemical Code)• Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Surveyand Certification (HSSC), 2017• 2017 Non-exhaustive list of obligations under instruments relevant to the IMO Instruments Implementation Code (III Code). ...

Side A is a full length map of the Maldives showing atolls, resorts & islands. It has an index of resorts with a grid reference for easy location. The map also

Includes:: Protected Marine Areas. Side B

Includes:: a fish poster map showing 12 common sharks & rays, & 83 common fish species.



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Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of ...