Cycling routes in Austria on two types of maps from Freytag & Berndt: route maps for the main long-distance cycling trails & detailed recreational maps overprinted with a network of local cycling routes for exploring the countryside by bike.LONG-DISTANCE CYCLE ROUTES (RK1, RK2, etc): each title is a concertina map showing the route on 12x 20cm panels. Unpaved parts, sections with heavy motor traffic, & danger points are marked. The maps also indicate bike rental & repair facilities, various types of accommodation, tourist information centres, etc. Places of interest are highlighted, railway lines show local stations & stops, & nearby mountain bike tours are marked. Each map panel has next to it brief descriptions of main sights & lists of useful addresses (including accommodation) for the area. Also included are street plans of main towns, & an overall elevation profile of the whole route. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend & all the text include English.LOCAL CYCLING MAPS (RK100, RK101, etc): detailed road maps with relief shading & spot heights to indicate the topography. An overprint highlights numerous cycling routes, indicating unpaved paths, routes with heavy motorized traffic & gradient marking. Symbols mark various types of accommodation, including campsites & youth hostels, bike retail & repair facilities, viewpoints, places of interest, etc. The maps have a 10km UTM grid. Each title has on the reverse an index of localities with their UTM coordinates, street plans of main towns, & profiles of selected routes. Map legend & all the text include English. ...

Freytag & Berndt`s walking maps of Austria combined into pocket-size atlases, each covering a popular hiking area. The atlases include hiking suggestions & descriptions of places of interest. * Map legend

Includes:: English but all the text is in German only.*

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Austria on a series of contoured & GPS compatible outdoor leisure maps from Freytag & Berndt with hiking & cycling routes, mountain huts, campsites & youth hostels, local bus stops, plus other tourist information. The whole country is covered at 1:50, 000; selected popular areas are also presented with 50K cartography enlarged to 1:35, 000 for larger print & clearer legibility. The maps have contours at 100m intervals in the mountainous areas & 50m elsewhere, enhanced by shading, graphic relief & colouring for woodlands. The overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails is graded into three types: easy walks, mountain paths, & more difficult alpine sections. Waymarked trails including long-distance routes are annotated with their numbers and/or signs. The maps also highlight cycling & mountain biking routes, cross-country ski tracks, & Nordic walking tracks. Symbols indicate mountain huts, youth hostels, campsites & countryside hotels/inns, bus stops on local roads, car parks plus various facilities & places of interest. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. Selected titles also have in the accompanying booklet (see below) an additional list of GPS waypoints indicated on the map. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING: most titles come with booklets in GERMAN containing extensive additional information including an index of main locations, suggestions for walks (often accompanied by route profiles) & other recreational activities, lists of mountain huts & other recommended accommodation, etc. Unless specified in the title’s individual description, all the information is in German only & no English language version of the booklet is available. Some titles carry similar information on the reverse.

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Austria on indexed touring maps at 1:175, 000 from Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey, printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each title is double-sided so covers a large area, & is printed with a good overlap between the sides. Clear & easy to read road network highlights scenic roads & indicates motorway junction numbers & services, steep gradients & winter closures, roads not recommended to or closed to caravans, etc. Driving distances are marked on main & on most connecting local routes. Railway lines are shown with stations & include heritage tourist routes. Various places of interest are highlighted. The maps also indicate campsites & youth hostels. Topography is presented by light, unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, etc, plus colouring for woodlands & boundaries of national/natural parks. The maps are indexed & have latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Popular recreational areas of the Austrian Alps on GPS compatible, double-sided maps from Kümmerly+ Frey printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper; contoured, with hiking, cycling & ski routes, accommodation facilities, locations for other recreational activities, etc. Scales are either 1:50, 000 or 1:35, 000. Contour interval is 40m, enhanced by relief shading & finely drawn additional graphic relief to provide an excellent representation of the terrain. The maps have plenty of names of peaks, valleys, etc, plus colouring/graphics indicating different types of vegetation, & show boundaries of national parks or other protected areas. An overprint, graded according to the difficulty of the route, highlights local hiking trails & long-distance paths indicating, where appropriate, their numbers or names. Also marked are local & long-distance cycle routes, plus a selection of mountain-bike trails, cross-country & alpine ski routes & horse-riding paths. Symbols mark locations for other outdoor activities (climbing, paragliding), different types of accommodations including alpine huts, campsites & youth hostels, sites of botanical or cultural interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a small road map of the region around the area covered by it.



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The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1890 on a reproduction of a map produced by Gustav Freytag for his cartographic company in Vienna. The map, drawn at 1:1, 500, 000, shows internal administrative provinces within the Dual Monarchy, from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia & Galicia in the north to Bosnia & Herzegovina in the south, with coverage including the neighbouring areas of the Balkans. The map shows railway lines. Skillfully executed hachures present the relief, with plenty of names of geographical features. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. ...

The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1890 on a reproduction of a map produced by Gustav Freytag for his cartographic company in Vienna. The map, drawn at 1:1, 500, 000, shows internal administrative provinces within the Dual Monarchy, from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia & Galicia in the north to Bosnia & Herzegovina in the south, with coverage including the neighbouring areas of the Balkans. The map shows railway lines. Skillfully executed hachures present the relief, with plenty of names of geographical features. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Traditionally, Egyptian cooking has been best practiced & enjoyed at home, where generations of unrecorded family recipes have been the sustaining repetoire for daily meals as well as sumptuous holiday feasts. Abou El Sid, one of Cairo`s most famous restaurants, has become well known for its authentic Egyptian dishes, & now presents more than fifty of its most classic recipes in a cookbook for the enjoyment of home cooks all over the world. Egyptians will recognise their favourites, from holiday dishes such as fettah to the arrays of appetizers like aubergine with garlic, special lentils & tahina; those new to Middle Eastern food will find the recipes simple & simply delicious, & enjoy the Egyptian table even if they don`t have the heritage of the pharaohs in their family backgrounds. ...