Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The authentic Models` Bombay Box Side Table has beautiful character & will improve with age. Looks great as a feature piece ...

The authentic Models` Bombay Box Side Table has beautiful character & will improve with age. Looks great as a feature piece ...

A Spicy Paneer Cheese Toastie with Mango Chutney, some Chickpea Dokla (bite-sized snacks tempered with toasted coconut & mustard seeds), or perhaps some Carrot & Pistachi Halwa, a sweet & sticky afternoon pick-me-up, washed down with Nimbobo Pani (a sweet & salty refreshing lime soda); the recipes in Bombay Lunchbox have exotic names with flavours to match. Renowned for her imaginative yet accessible recipes, Carolyn Caldicott combines anecdotes & recipes from Anglo-Indian cookery with the culture of the ` Tiffin` lunchbox, cooked at home & delivered to the workplace in characteristic stainless steel tiered tins. Carolyn`s collection of sweet & savoury vegetarian recipes for lunch, afternoon tea or any snack eaten between breakfast & dinner, will appeal to anyone who loves India & Indian food. Bombay Lunchbox is illustrated with modern photographs by Chris Caldicott & vintage imagery, bringing together the spirit of the Raj with the brightly coloured buzz of modern India`s culture, religion & society. ...

` Ketaki Sheth`s photographs, so formally interesting, so sharply seen, so deeply felt.`
- Salman Rushdie. ` Sheth`s Bombay
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This book comes with an introduction by Mohammed Hanif. Bombay in the 1930s & 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent
- an exhilarating hub of license & liberty, & a city bursting with both creative energy & helpless despondency. It was to be the favourite city & muse of the most celebrated short story writer of India & Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling & provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity
- prostitutes, pimps, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, conmen & crooks
- Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmad`s translations reach into the streets & capture Manto`s world in contemporary, idiomatic English.


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Bombay is a city always on the move. Driven by multiple impulses, it has been the site for a Buddhist ethos, a safe haven for refugees from Persia, a hub of maritime trade & a melting pot of European & Eastern influences. Enriched with in-depth historical research & exclusive photographs, ` Bombay: Then` documents the transformation of the once `insignificant cluster of islets` into one of the most exciting spots for cultural exchange in South Asia. Among other views, the book illustrates the Mankeshwar temple & the Rajabai Clock Tower wrapped in scaffolding; the construction of Victoria Dock & the opening of its massive underwater gates; a lush & sparsely populated Malabar Hill; a rare view of the interior of a Parsi fire temple; factory scenes inside the Royal Mint & the Times of India units; what the stock exchange looked like nearly a century ago; & many breathtaking aerial shots of this beautiful isl&-city. A sheer visual treat through extraordinary historical photographs, ` Bombay: Then` is for keeps. Mumbai has always been a city of dreams
- shiny, colourful, nebulous dreams that melt away the moment you try to grasp them. Yet it beckons & the charm of the mirage is too seductive to let pass. Mumbai has moved from being Bombay to Bambai to Mumbai in four centuries & yet it is all three: encompassing all manner of paradoxical realities within its moist borders. Mumbai is restless, transient but the pulse of its past still runs through its streets. The fifteen million souls that inhabit this great isl&-city belong to all walks of life, numerous ethnic & religious backgrounds, & manage to communicate through the Babel-like confusion of different tongues & diverse histories. ` Mumbai: Now` brings this shape-shifting, elusive city to you
- from the stories of the first Goan migrants to the lives of native Koli fishermen; from the tradition of dabbawalas to that of `cutting` chai; & from the potters in Dharavi to the pink flamingos in Sewri
- in a series of beautiful, moving pictures that capture the many moods & faces of Mumbai.


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Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation...heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII. Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ` Bomber Boys` is a tribute to their strength, courage & heroism
- filling in the historical blanks & immortalising their memory.
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Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France & the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says ` The religion of France is food. & wine, of course.` & they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income on food & drink than any other nation in the world. Literally hundreds of gastronomic fairs & festivals take place throughout the year all over France
- a frog fair, an hommage to the sausage, to the turnip, to the quiche & the noble Camembert. What kind of person is a snail-fancier? Is there a brotherhood of sausage connoisseurs? How can you devote an entire weekend to the French fry? Peter Mayle finds out & brings hilariously & affectionately to life the people who can get passionate about a frog`s leg or a well-turned omelette. Over ten years ago he transformed our feelings about Provence, now he captures the irresistible essence of France herself
- & her food.

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How much land is there altogether?` I asked. ` About thirteen acres, ` said the estate agent. ` Whatever would you do with that much land? It`s an awful lot to upkeep.` I grinned. No problem! `I`d keep llamas & fly balloons!` A dilapidated, rat-infested stone barn might not be many people`s vision of a potential dream home. But for Richard & Al, the cavernous, oak-beamed building in a sleepy hamlet in the Limousin region of France is perfect. Tussles with French bureaucracy & fierce storms do little to dampen their resolve as they immerse themselves in this quiet corner of France. Told by a well-intentioned if often hapless do-it-yourselfer, Richard`s hilarious & heartwarming tale of a new life in France resounds to the Gallic refrain, ` Bon courage!` ...