In late 1911, the final year of the Edwardian age, a British naval captain & a Norwegian conqueror of the North-West Passage embarked on the most gruelling race ever run. Their aim was not only to lead the first expedition to the South Pole, but also to live to tell the tale. Six months later, Robert Falcon Scott & four of his party were dead, while Roald Amundsens victory had been wired around the world. A century on, the debate still rages. Was Scott unfortunate or incompetent? Was Amundsen a genius or lucky? In a unique television experiment, two teams led by the Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes & the television anthropologist Bruce Parry, star of the BBC2 series Tribe, set out to recreate the famous race. Wearing the same type of clothing as their predecessors, surviving on the same diet, using the same equipment & travelling over the same distance, they seek to answer some of the burning questions. Blizzard is a dramatic chronicle of both the original epic, & its reconstruction. Jasper Reess narrative skilfully intertwines past & present as he brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters. They may be separated from their predecessors by nearly a hundred years, but the modern race teams soon discover that, in polar travel, nothing changes. Among the hardships they face are uncontrollable dogs, inedible food, invisible crevasses, unimaginable cold, all in an unending prairie of snow. Incorporating the gripping diaries of Parry & Gjeldnes, Blizzard paints an astonishing picture of comradeship in the face of physical danger & psychological torment in the most life-threatening habitat on earth. ...

“ The Really Tiny Book Light” red clips discreetly onto the pages of your book so you can indulge your late-night reading habits without disturbing others or straining your eyes. This LED book light even sports a handy neck hinge that means that you can rotate the arm of your reading light a full 90 degrees, allowing you to direct the light beam towards the edge of the page & comfortably read text left in shadow by many other inferior reading lights. *WINNER
- GIFT OF THE YEAR 2008* The “ Really Tiny Book Light” requires 3 AG3 batteries (included).
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“ The Really Tiny Book Light” red clips discreetly onto the pages of your book so you can indulge your late-night reading habits without disturbing others or straining your eyes. This LED book light even sports a handy neck hinge that means that you can rotate the arm of your reading light a full 90 degrees, allowing you to direct the light beam towards the edge of the page & comfortably read text left in shadow by many other inferior reading lights. *WINNER
- GIFT OF THE YEAR 2008* The “ Really Tiny Book Light” requires 3 AG3 batteries (included).
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“ The Really Tiny Book Light” red clips discreetly onto the pages of your book so you can indulge your late-night reading habits without disturbing others or straining your eyes. This LED book light even sports a handy neck hinge that means that you can rotate the arm of your reading light a full 90 degrees, allowing you to direct the light beam towards the edge of the page & comfortably read text left in shadow by many other inferior reading lights. *WINNER
- GIFT OF THE YEAR 2008* The “ Really Tiny Book Light” requires 3 AG3 batteries (included).
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“ The Really Tiny Book Light” red clips discreetly onto the pages of your book so you can indulge your late-night reading habits without disturbing others or straining your eyes. This LED book light even sports a handy neck hinge that means that you can rotate the arm of your reading light a full 90 degrees, allowing you to direct the light beam towards the edge of the page & comfortably read text left in shadow by many other inferior reading lights. *WINNER
- GIFT OF THE YEAR 2008* The “ Really Tiny Book Light” requires 3 AG3 batteries (included).
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“ The Really Tiny Book Light” red clips discreetly onto the pages of your book so you can indulge your late-night reading habits without disturbing others or straining your eyes. This LED book light even sports a handy neck hinge that means that you can rotate the arm of your reading light a full 90 degrees, allowing you to direct the light beam towards the edge of the page & comfortably read text left in shadow by many other inferior reading lights. *WINNER
- GIFT OF THE YEAR 2008* The “ Really Tiny Book Light” requires 3 AG3 batteries (included).
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Indexed street map of Bloemfontein & suburbs, with an inset enlargement of the town centre & a road map of the Free State on the reverse. The city coverage extends from Bainsvlai in the north-west to Grasland in the east & JB Mafora district in the south. Detail

Includes:: one-way streets, traffic lights, service stations, railways & car parks. District names are indicated & colour coding distinguishes land use e.g. industrial, built-up, retail district, parks. A further range of symbols depict places of interest, landmarks, museums, tourist information offices, shopping centres, various community services, churches, hospitals, sports facilities etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1’ intervals. An inset at 1:15, 000 shows the central area with greater clarity. The map is indexed for streets. On the reverse is a road map of Free State at 1:800, 000. Road detail

Includes:: secondary roads & toll routes, distinguishes untarred roads & shows intermediate distances on many routes. Other detail

Includes:: provincial boundaries, airports, historic sites, battlefields, reserves & other places of interest. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 30’ intervals. Indexed for place names.





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Map No. 2926, Bloemfontein, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Bloemfontein Pocket Tourist Map is an indexed street plan at a scale of 1:15, 000, suitable for use with GPS systems. Road detail

Includes:: freeways, through routes & minor roads, as well as indicating one way streets, parking facilities & petrol stations. Railways lines & stations are marked & the bus/taxi terminus is located. Colour coding distinguishes land use e.g. retail areas, industrial areas & park/sports recreation areas. A range of symbols indicate sites of municipal & visitor interest such as vantage points, places of cultural significance, tourist information centres, theatres & cinemas, shopping centres, police stations & hospitals. Hotels & guest houses are shown throughout the city. For GPS users, lines of latitude & longitude are displayed at intervals of 0.5’.

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Street plan of Blois, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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