A clear street plan covering an area of about 7 x 7 miles. Main roads are named & railways are included. The old city is highlighted & a variety of the city's features are indicated, eg. places of worship, museums, parks, antiquities, monuments, hotels, markets, public offices. Lines of latitude & longitude are drawn at 1' intervals. Small inset maps show the environs of Baghdad at 1:1, 750, 000 & Iraq & neighbours at 1:6, 000, 000. The index

Includes:: streets, quarters of the city & sites of interest eg. mosques, churches, markets, notable buildings.

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Baghdad, November 2003. The US occupation is not yet a disaster but the CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army & decimated the police in its policy of de-Ba`athification of Iraqi society. Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Iraqi cop who deserted his post back in April. Khafaji has lived long enough in pre- & post-Saddam Iraq to know that clinging on to anything but poetry & his daughter, Mrouj, is asking for trouble. Nabbed by the Americans & imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, Khafaji is offered only one way out
- he has to work for the CPA to rebuild the Iraqi Police Services. But it`s only after US forces take Mrouj that he figures out a way to make his collaboration palatable, & even rewarding. Soon, he is investigating the disappearance of young translators working for the US Army.
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The latest in Andrew Martin’s much loved ‘ Jim Stringer’ series of books, The Baghdad Railway Club is set in Baghdad 1917 as Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. Arriving to find a city on the point of insurrection, his own cover apparently blown, Stringer finds his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes. Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city. The recently ejected Turks are still a danger
- & many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either. For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day. Aside from his investigation, he is working on the railways around the city. His boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd, who presides over the gracious dining society called The Baghdad Railway Club
- & who may or may not be a Turkish agent. Jim`s search for the truth brings him up against murderous violence in a heat-dazed, labyrinthine city where an enemy awaits around every corner. The Baghdad Railway Club continues the ` Jim Stringer` series which began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The third & fourth books in the series, Murder at Deviation Junction & Death on a Branch Line, were shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award &, in 2008, Andrew Martin was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.

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The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy & worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise & fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence. Typically
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- she chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene & immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqis
- living in the `native` quarter of the city & spending time with its tribal sheikhs & leaders. Venturing out of Baghdad, she travelled to Mosul, Nineveh, Tikrit & Najaf, where she perceptively describes the millennia-old tensions between Sunni & Shi`a, time not having dissipated their hatred. In the 1940s she returned again, this time travelling south, to the Marsh Arabs, whose way of life has now all but disappeared; north into Kurdistan & later, Kuwait, in the days before the oil boom. Painting a portrait of both the political & social preoccupations of the day as exquisitely as she does the people & landscapes of Iraq, Baghdad Sketches is a remarkable portrait of the country as it once was.


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Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural & commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic & intellectual sophistication & an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand & One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, & numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers & its tyrants, of its philosophers & conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Map No. 19, Bagno di Romagna, in series of contoured, GPS compatible hiking maps at 1:25, 000 from the Istituto Geografico Adriatico, covering mainly the spine of the Apennines along the borders of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria & the Marches. The maps have contours at 25m intervals with additional shading & numerous Map in this series have contours at 25m intervals with additional shading & numerous spot heights. Colouring indicates different types of land use, including woodlands, olive groves, vineyards & orchards. National park & protected areas are marked. An overprint highlights local waymarked hiking routes, indicating their official number or name, including many long-distance routes such GEA (Grande Escursione Appenninica) & the course of the E1 cross-European footpath. Most titles also show cycle routes and/or mountain bike trails. A range of symbols indicate various facilities such as campsites, mountain refuges & other rural accommodation, bars & restaurants, sport & recreational places, historical & cultural monuments, etc. Road network is graded according to width,

Includes:: country tracks, & shows sections closed to motorised traffic plus locations of petrol stations. The maps have a 1km UTM, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend

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



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