Göta Canal & Trollhätte Canal Passage Vättern · Vänern The Blue Ribbon of Sweden with a length of 400 km is one of the most attractive canals of Europe.NV Charts developed the set “Göta Canal & Trollhätte Canal” in a scale of 1: 35.000 especially for this unique system of canals, lakes & rivers. It begins in Mem & extends to Göteborg including the passages through Vättern lake & Vänern lake. It is published in German & Swedish & provides detailed information about depths, locks, overhead clearance & sights. Format: Paper, digital raster charts via NV Charts App. ...

Binns Track route in a series of spiral-bound atlases from Design Interaction showing routes across Australia’s Northern Territory with GPS coordinates & accompanied by information about local facilities, useful tips & colour photos. The atlas has a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 5’. Each atlas in this series presents the route on a plain base with colouring showing national parks/protected areas & Aboriginal lands. Topographic information is limited to rivers, creeks or lakes along the route or in its immediate vicinity. Along the route a wide range of symbols indicates various facilities including accommodation, food & fuel supplies, mechanical & tyre repair, emergency services, places of interest, etc. Driving distances are shown at regular intervals & annotations provide tips about entry permits & fees, danger points, communication with emergency services, etc. Each route is shown in stages & accompanied by colour photos of interesting landscape features & other various points along it. Each page of the atlas has a latitude & longitude grid & various places along the route itself are annotated with GPS waypoints. Also provided is a list of useful addresses. ...

Map No. 1270, Binntal, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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Edith Pearlman`s Binocular Vision are the collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike & even Chekhov Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, & this is a spectacular collection. ` This book is a spectacular literary revelation... With Binocular Vision a new fictional planet, richly populated & suffused with warm lucidity, comes into view.` Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times ` Gold medal class.. .seems beyond compare.. . The traditional literary system has worked, though grievously slowly, in giving a genius of the short story her due. ` Mark Lawson, Guardian `[ Pearlman`s stories are] meticulously made, miraculously precise, & so fully populated that you marvel one mind could invent so many distinct human beings from scratch. ` Sam Leith, Financial Times ` An unsung master.` Megan Walsh, The Times `[ These stories are] pearls that encapsulate resonant moments... Make up for lost time now & catch up with Pearlman.` Ben Felsenburg, Metro ` Pearlman writes about the predicaments odd, wry, funny & painful of being human.. .[ Her] view of the world is large & compassionate, delivered through small, beautifully precise moments. Her characters inhabit terrain that all of us recognize, one defined by anxieties & longing, love & grief, loss & exultation. These quiet, elegant stories add something significant to the literary landscape.`
- The New York Times ` The surprise literary hit of the year to date... The complexity & mess of human lives, beautifully rendered in (often funny) tales.`
- Lionel Barber Financial Times ` The equal of Updike or Munro... This book will make your summer shine.`
- Boyd Tonkin Independent ` These are stories to linger over.`
- Daily Mail Edith Pearlman, born in 1936, published her debut collection of stories in 1996, at age 60. In 2011, she won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She has published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies & online publications. Her work has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, & a Mary Mc Carthy Prize, among others. In 2011, Pearlman was also the recipient of the PEN/ Malamud Award, which puts her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike & Joyce Carol Oates. Her fans include T.C. Boyle, Ann Patchett & Chris Adrian



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This book tells a magical tale of love & hardship in ancient China, set against the backdrop of the Great Wall. In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles & forced to labour on a project of terrifying ambition & scale
- the building of the Great Wall. Binu is determined to find & save her husb&. Inspired by her love, she sets out on an extraordinary journey towards Great Swallow Mountain, with only a blind frog for company. What follows is an unforgettable story of passion, hardship & magical adventure.
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Biography of British Train Travel is a collection of mainly previously unpublished articles & short stories, covering a lifelong interest in railways. It spans a wide spectrum over the years, from the early days in Kent in 1960, through the many hours on the lineside on the Surrey Hills line & the South Western main line, to the last frantic years of steam on the Southern, & the current steam scene, as well as the privileged & exciting times spent riding on the footplate of steam locomotives. It majors on the author`s main railway passions of steam locomotives, train running performance, including modern motive power & all matters Southern. Locomotive performance in Europe & a tramway are also included, as is a fascinating minor- & little-visited narrow gauge railway in southern Engl&, plus heritage traction on the London Underground. The book comprises Approx. 350 illustrations, many in colour, as well as contemporary timetable extracts & copies of notebook pages, which cover shed visits in Scotl&. Fifty train running logs are included, together with some detailed records of days spent by the line sides of railways when steam was still the predominant motive power in parts of the south. ...

Read the extraordinary story of Elizabeth I`s life, from her troubled childhood to her remarkable adult life as queen of Engl&. Following the execution of her mother & disownment by her father, Elizabeth was never expected to sit on the throne. She rose above her imprisonment in the Tower of London & rejected several marriage proposals to emerge triumphant as England`s most powerful queen. Pushing the boundaries of the British Empire ever further through exploration, patronage of the arts, & strengthened trade, Elizabeth became a glorious monarch, loved & celebrated by her people. ...

Biokovo Mountains on the Adriatic coast of Croatia on a contoured & GPS compatible, double-sided map at 1:25, 000 from the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service. Coverage

Includes:: the resorts of Baška Voda, Makarska, , Tucpi & Podgora. Contours at 10m intervals enhanced by relief shading provide excellent presentation of the terrain, with markings for various topographic features. Waymarked hiking paths are highlighted & the map also indicates which local roads & tracks are suitable for cycling or mountain biking. Symbols show various facilities & places of interest, including different types of tourist accommodations (hotels, apartments, campsites, mountain refuges), restaurants, beaches, paragliding locations, etc. The map has a 1km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. This map is printed on dem&, & if it`s out of stock it could take 3
- 4 months waiting time. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.




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Birch Vale in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers an area east of New Mills, stretching from Watford Lodge eastward to Birch Vale. Features include Print Works (Calico), Hayfield Union Workhouse, Sheffield & Midland Jt railway with Birch Vale station, Garrison Bleach Works, Pleasant View, High Hill Farm, Ravensleach Quarry, Birch Vale print works, colliery, Thornset, etc. On the reverse is a large extract of the 1919 map, showing the Birch Vale & Thornset area at a later stage, together with directory entries for Birch Vale & Thornset. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Bird Bingo by Laurence King is a bingo game with a twist or rather … birds! This colourful & educational game, featuring 64 species of birds will help you learn about the names, feathering & beak of different birds worldwide, from the Scarlet Ibis to the Shoebill & the Rhinoceros Hornbill. Just like in a bingo game, one player draws one tile at a time & calls out a bird that the other player need to mark off their card. Who gets all the birds on the card called wins. The Bird Bingo is also beautifully made & every detail carefully thought out. The sturdy hard pressed board is lined with a white canvas, coated with sealant to give a semi glossy finish. The board, bingo cards & tiles are illustrated by Christine Berrie. Her vivid, detailed & colourful images complement & enhance the beauty & quality of this game. The pack contains 64 bird tiles (4.5cmx 4.5cm each) stored in a cotton pouch featuring red birds’ silhouettes, one foldable board (43x 50cm when open), 12 bingo cards (21.5x 21.5 cm) & markers for covering the selected birds. The instructions leaflet features a small description & basic information for each species in the game. Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. ...