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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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. ...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty & creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality & corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth, charisma & power, but by his blood: a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If he is to succeed, he must use his Machiavellian son & innocent daughter. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty breathes life into the astonishing family of Alexander VI & celebrates the raw power of history itself: compelling, complex, & relentless. ...

With The Warrior's Honor & Virtual War, Blood & Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict. In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan & Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at its worst. Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can end in the horror of ethnic cleansing. But it is also a language of belonging: a call to come home. In Blood & Belonging Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of nationalism in a personal odyssey that begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia & ends with his return to his adopted homel&, Great Britain's disunited kingdom. ...

`A history of resilience.. .sweeping, comprehensive.. .it`s a story that has been waiting to be told` Guardian ` An account sorely needed.. .a kaleidoscopic view of Native American history, refreshing & rollicking, & not unlike its fractured reality` Standpoint Blood & Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history & achievements of Native North Americans, & why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States & Canada: Native Americans, First Nations & Arctic peoples. This highly personal book, based on years of travel & first-hand research in North America, introduces a deeply complex story, of myriad identities & determined ethnicities
- from the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact between Europeans & Native Americans to the challenges of Native leadership today. Instead of writing a chronological history, King confronts the reader with the paradoxes, diversity & successes of Native North Americans. Their astonishing ingenuity & supple intelligence enabled, after centuries of suffering both violence & dispossession, a striking level of recovery, optimism & autonomy in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated & filled with arresting & surprising stories, Blood & Land looks well beyond the `feathers-&-failure` narratives beloved by historians to show us Native North America as it was & is.
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Blood & Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history & achievements of Native North Americans, & why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States & Canada: Native Americans, First Nations & Arctic peoples. This highly personal book, based on years of travel & first-hand research in North America, introduces a deeply complex story, of myriad identities & determined ethnicities
- from the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact between Europeans & Native Americans to the challenges of Native leadership today. Instead of writing a chronological history, King confronts the reader with the paradoxes, diversity & successes of Native North Americans. Their astonishing ingenuity & supple intelligence enabled, after centuries of suffering both violence & dispossession, a striking level of recovery, optimism & autonomy in the twenty-first century. Beautifully illustrated & filled with arresting & surprising stories, Blood & Land looks well beyond the `feathers-&-failure` narratives beloved by historians to show us Native North America as it was & is.
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On 6 June, 2004, Frank Gardner & cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, filming a piece on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed instantly. Frank was brought down by a shot in the shoulder, then the leg. As he lay in the dusty street, a figure stood over him & proceeded to pump 4 more bullets into him at point blank range... Blood & Sand is the story of a man who was left for dead but
- & against all odds
- survived. & not only did Frank Gardner survive but, drawing on his journalistic calling, he has given us an extraordinary, terrifying account of the whole, literally life-shattering, experience
- from what it's like to be shot to the excruciating months of recovery. But his book is more than about this one incident & its aftermath. It is about a journey that began 25 years ago with a chance meeting on a London bus with the veteran Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who inspired in the young Frank what would become a lifelong passion for the Arab world. This abiding interest would lead him to travel throughout the Middle East, experiencing at first hand peoples, places & cultures that few have encountered
- a colourful world of scorpion-infested Bedouin tents, of Cairene hash dens & vibrant Egyptian slums. It's a journey that would eventually lead, via the world of banking, to Frank becoming a journalist with the BBC. & it was this passion that would, in the wake of the world-changing events of 9/11, send him on the journey that came to dominate
- & so very nearly end
- his life: his coverage of the phenomenon that is Al-Qaeda. Written with honesty, integrity & humour, this is a powerful, haunting account of survival, of over-coming adversity & a determination to carry on
- a moving & inspiring personal story that reveals a deep understanding of the Islamic world & an insider's compelling analysis of the on-going ' War on Terror' & what it means in these uncertain times.






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It was on 6 June 2004 that BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner & cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen in a quiet Riyadh back street. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder & leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him & pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range. Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived. Ten years on from that horrendous attack, although partly paralysed, he continues to travel the world reporting for the BBC. His acclaimed, moving & inspiring memoir is now brought up to date with a new chapter recalling his return to Saudi Arabia for the first time since he was shot. This new anniversary edition is a reaffirmation of his deep understanding of
- & affection for
- the Islamic world in these uncertain times.

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Over sixteen extraordinary days in October & November 1956, the twin crises of Suez & Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict & what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood & Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, & the treacherous power politics of imperialism & oil. Blood & Sandtells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Christian Pineau, Imre Nagy & David Ben-Gurion. It is a tale of conspiracy & revolutions, spies & terrorists, kidnappings & assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire & the rise of American hegemony. Blood & Sand is essential to our understanding of the modern Middle East & resonates powerfully with the problems of oil control, religious fundamentalism & international unity that face the world today. ...