Six months after America declared her independence, Congress dispatched Benjamin Franklin to France to solicit aid & arms for the upcoming fight. He was seventy years old, possessed of the most rudimentary French & had no diplomatic training. But this most remarkable of envoys was also among the most famous men in the world. During his eight years in Paris he charmed the French, outwitted the British spies & stirred a passion for a republic in those who lived under an absolute monarchy. Stacy Schiff tells a tale of international intrigue & from it emerges an intimate portrait of a brilliant man, as well as a sense of the fragility & improvisation of his country`s bid for independence. ...

For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia & established his fame as a renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. With just a brief interlude, a house in Craven Street was to be his home until 1775. From there he mixed with both the brilliant & the powerful, whether in London coffee house clubs, at the Royal Society, or on his summer travels around the British Isles & continental Europe. He counted David Hume, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke & Erasmus Darwin among his friends, & as an American colonial representative he had access to successive Prime Ministers & even the King. The early 1760s saw Britain`s elevation to global superpower status with victory in the Seven Years War & the succession of the young, active George III. These two events brought a sharp new edge to political competition in London & redefined the relationship between Britain & its colonies. They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. Though Franklin long sought to prevent the break with Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that very event. On the eve of the American War of Independence, Franklin fled arrest & escaped by sea. He would never return to London. With his unique focus on the fullness of Benjamin Franklin`s life in London, George Goodwin has created an enthralling portrait of the man, the city & the age. ...

For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia & established his fame as a renowned experimental scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to live as a gentleman in the heaving metropolis of London. With just a brief interlude, a house in Craven Street was to be his home until 1775. From there he mixed with both the brilliant & the powerful, whether in London coffee house clubs, at the Royal Society, or on his summer travels around the British Isles & continental Europe. He counted David Hume, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke & Erasmus Darwin among his friends, & as an American colonial representative he had access to successive Prime Ministers & even the King. The early 1760s saw Britain`s elevation to global superpower status with victory in the Seven Years War & the succession of the young, active George III. These two events brought a sharp new edge to political competition in London & redefined the relationship between Britain & its colonies. They would profoundly affect Franklin himself, eventually placing him in opposition with his ambitious son William. Though Franklin long sought to prevent the break with Great Britain, his own actions would finally help cause that very event. On the eve of the American War of Independence, Franklin fled arrest & escaped by sea. He would never return to London. With his unique focus on the fullness of Benjamin Franklin`s life in London, George Goodwin has created an enthralling portrait of the man, the city & the age. ...

Bennington & Rutland Counties in Vermont on a double-sided, indexed map from Jimapco combining several street plans of local towns with a road map of the two counties & enlargements for selected areas. On one side are 11 panels presenting at 1:36, 000 street plans of local towns, with names of individual streets & locations of various services & facilities. Locations covered are Manchester, Rutland & the surrounding area with Proctor & Wallingford, Brandon, Forest Dale, Fair Haven
- Castleton – Lake Bomoseen, Lake Hortonia, Shaftsbury, Arlington, Poultney, North Bennington – Old Bennington, Wells, Pownal & Pownal Crt. On the reverse is a road map covering the two counties at 1:144, 000 with relief shading to show the topography & colouring to indicate national forests. Symbols highlight recreational facilities, fishing & hunting access, wildlife management areas, campgrounds, etc. Seven enlargements at 1:54, 000 present various parts of the two counties in greater detail. The maps have no geographical coordinates. The index lists streets, routes, physical features & points of interest.
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Plans: Port la Foret Concarneau Port Manec'h Ports Brigneau & Merrien Doelan Iles de Glenan North Lorient Lorient Yacht Harbour Port Tudy (Ile de Groix) Etel 2010 edition updated to include buoyage in the approaches to Concarneau revised & enlarged marina at Port la Foret now displayed. ...

The first book on San Francisco`s three-Michelin starred restaurant Benu & its chef Corey Lee, hailed by David Chang as one of the best chefs on earth. Since striking out on his own from Thomas Keller`s acclaimed French Laundry in 2010, Corey Lee has crafted a unique, James Beard Award-winning cuisine that seamlessly blends his South Korean heritage with his upbringing in the United States. Benu provides a gorgeously illustrated presentation of the running order of one of Lee`s 33-course tasting menus, providing access to all the drama & pace of Benu`s kitchen & dining room. Forewords by Thomas Keller & David Chang are accompanied by additional short prose & photo essays by Lee, detailing the cultural influences, inspirations, & motivations behind his East-meets-West approach. ...

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Beowulf is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien`s The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings. ” So the company of men led a careless life, All was well with them: until One began To encompass evil, an enemy from hell. Grendel they called this cruel spirit...” (J.R.R). Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating & teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves & magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature &, even if he had never written The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary tales. Legends from the Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien`s fiction. They are startling, brutal, strange pieces of writing, with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translations. They plunge the reader into a world of treachery, quests, chivalry, trials of strength. They are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe & bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century. ...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; & from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy & clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf & his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel`s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book

Includes:: also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf `snuffling in baffled rage & injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup`; but he rebuts the notion that this is `a mere treasure story`, `just another dragon tale`. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, & observes that it is `the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history` that raises it to another level. ` The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The ”treasure” is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.` Sellic Spell, a `marvellous tale`, is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form & style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the `historical legends` of the Northern kingdoms.

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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; & from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy & clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf & his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel`s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book

Includes:: also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf `snuffling in baffled rage & injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup`; but he rebuts the notion that this is `a mere treasure story`, `just another dragon tale`. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, & observes that it is `the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history` that raises it to another level. ` The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The ”treasure” is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.` Sellic Spell, a `marvellous tale`, is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form & style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the `historical legends` of the Northern kingdoms.

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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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