Map No. 44, Ballater & Glen Clova, in a waterproof & tear-resistant version of the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including Brechin, Fern, Kirkton of Menmuir, Bridgend, Rottal, Glenogil, Dykehead, Balnaboth, Kirkton of Glenisla, Tarfside, Ballochan, Kincardine O ...

One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out & caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine. She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle. She looked very happy. At the age of three, Michaela De Prince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family & brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, & decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true. She has been dancing ever since, & after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. Beautifully & gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela De Prince`s highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe. ...

A sticker book with a difference, this delightful book contains 13 scenes & over 400 stickers to dress the ballerinas for different occasions. Scenes include the ballerinas performing in ballets such as Sleeping Beauty & the Nutcracker, as well as backstage, rehearsal & many more. Stickers include gorgeous tutus, headdresses & ballet pumps, as well as bags, shoes & jewellery to make the ballerinas beautiful. ...

Pauline, Petrova & Posy Fossil are sisters
- with a difference. All three were adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, an eccentric
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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. ...

This is a beautiful colour view of London from the perspective of an aerial balloon, looking southwards from Hampstead. Printed in 1851, it shows the brand new Crystal Palace
- erected to house the Great Exhibition
- as well as the early London railways, Victorian Oxford Street, the Tower & eight of the city's bridges, many of which were recent constructions. This is a stunning & unexpected window on a city that was at the centre of a vast empire & at the height of its pomp.

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This is a beautiful colour view of London from the perspective of an aerial balloon, looking southwards from Hampstead. Printed in 1851, it shows the brand new Crystal Palace
- erected to house the Great Exhibition
- as well as the early London railways, Victorian Oxford Street, the Tower & eight of the city's bridges, many of which were recent constructions. This is a stunning & unexpected window on a city that was at the centre of a vast empire & at the height of its pomp.

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5 Balloonomania Belles reveals the astonishing stories of the fabulous female pioneers of balloon flight. More than a century before the first aeroplane women were heading for the heavens in crazy, inspired contraptions that could bring death or glory & all too often, both. Award-winning journalist Sharon Wright reveals their hair-raising adventures in a book that brings the stories of the feisty female ballooning heroines together for the first time. Women were in the vanguard of the Balloonomania craze that took hold in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries & swept across Europe then the world. Their exploits were a vital element of our first voyages into the sky. When womens options were often severely limited by law & convention they managed to join the exhilarating quest for spectacle, adventure & danger among the clouds. Many of the brightest stars of this extraordinary era of human flight were women. From the perilous ascent in 1784 by feisty French teenager Elisabeth Thible, female aeronauts have never looked back or down. Who were these brave women who took to the air when it was such an incredibly dangerous & scandalous thing to dosharon Wright brings together in one book the show-stopping stories of the very first flying women. ...

Ballycastle, map No. 5 in the Discoverer series from the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland presenting the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000 with waymarked hiking trails, Sustrans National Cycle Network & other tourist information. Coverage

Includes:: Ballymoney, Bushmills, Cushendall & Rathlin Islands. Current edition F; publication date April 2011. Maps in the Discoverer series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & bold altitude colouring above 150m. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. In coastal areas the maps show high & low water mark, cliffs, mud/shingle or s&, etc. Road network grades minor roads according to their widths,

Includes:: local tracks & shows gradients on steep routes. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. An overprint highlights waymarked walking trails as well as cycle routes of the Sustrans National Cycle Network. Boundaries of National Trust land are marked, indicating areas with limited opening. Places of interest are prominently highlighted & a range of symbols provide other tourist information including camping or caravan sites & youth hostels, bus stations, parking, picnic areas, viewpoints, gold courses, etc. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km Irish Grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is English, French & German. On the reverse each sheet has an indexed monochrome map showing townland boundaries. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. Ordnance Survey of Irel&.



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Ballymena on an indexed street plan at 1:10, 000 from the Ordnance Survey of Northern Irel&, plus on the reverse an indexed road map at 1:50, 000 of Ballymena District. OSNI street plans highlight main traffic arteries in each town, indicating motorways, A or B roads, one way or pedestrianized streets & car parks. The plans show Sustrans National Cycle Network with route numbers, tow paths & waymarked walks. Also marked are boundaries of local government districts. Public buildings are highlighted by colour & named. Symbols indicate tourist information offices, bus & or railway stations, public toilets & golf courses. Each plan has Irish national grid lines. On the reverse the plans have an indexed road map of the relevant local government district. ...