Borkum, the largest of Germany’s East Frisian Islands, on a detailed, GPS compatible map at 1:15, 000 from Kompass with local & long-distance footpaths, cycling routes, accommodation, etc, printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper.KOMPASS HIKING & RECREATIONAL MAPS: this title is part of an extensive series covering Austria, much of Germany & the Slovenian Alps. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of hiking maps; their mapping of other countries, including expanding coverage of Italy, is listed on our website separately.CARTOGRAPHY: the maps are contoured with additional shading, graphic relief & colouring to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10m in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous regions. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Latest editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. MAP LEGEND: most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.OTHER

Features: selected titles include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have a booklet with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage.BOOKLETS: PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING
- many titles come with a booklet describing the area and/or various hiking routes. Unless indicated in the individual description that the booklet

Includes:: English, these booklets are IN GERMAN only. The booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, full English language map legend is provided.




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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Map No. 96, Bormio
- Livigno
- Corna di Campo, from Kompass printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper

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Map No. 96, Bormio
- Livigno
- Corna di Campo, from Kompass in a series of walking maps of selected areas of Italy at 1:50,

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The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid & the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comedy world`s brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race & identity, sharing jokes & insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of the US hit show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt & humorous look at the world that shaped him. Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father & a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents` indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme & often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, take him away.A collection of eighteen personal stories, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man`s fearless, rebellious & fervently religious mother
- a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence & abuse that ultimately threatens her own life. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-&-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit & an unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a dangerous time, as moving & unforgettable as the very best memoirs & as funny as Noah`s own hilarious st&-up. Born a Crime is a must read.
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Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, & raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free & its sequels Living Free & Forever Free, generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired & moved by these books` uplifting charm & the remarkable interaction between Joy & Elsa. Millions have also come to know & love Born Free through the immortal film starring Virginia Mc Kenna & Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story in this 50th anniversary edition, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa & walked with the lions. ...

Capturing readers in a story exposing the complexities of a diverse region peopled by characters such as Cortes, Eva, & Juan Peron, Sister Inor Suarez & Che Guevara, John Chasteen focuses on the major events of Mexico, Brazil & Argentina. Working within a chronological framework, this text incorporatres the histories of individual countries into the history of a region, providing students with a foundation for further study. It embraces race, class & gender as principle issues in the Latin American experience & recognizes relationships between sociocultural, political & economic forces. ...

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change & upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to go from living under communism one minute, to capitalism the next? What did the East Germans make of capitalism? & how do they remember the GDR today? Are their memories dominated by fear & loathing of the Stasi state, or do they look back with a measure of fondness & regret on a world of guaranteed employment & a relatively low cost of living? This is the story of eight citizens of the former German Democratic Republic, & how these dramatic changes affected them. All of the people in the book were born in East Germany after the Berlin Wall was put up in August 1961, so they knew nothing other than living in a socialist system when the GDR fell apart. Their stories provide a fascinating insight not only into everyday life in East Germany, but about how this now-vanished state is remembered today, a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall. ...

In Born Survivor
- which accompanies a brand new eight-part series for Channel 4
- Bear Grylls, the world`s ultimate survivor,

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Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, & Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, & facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, & with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, & those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they & their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive & rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers` incredible journey
- first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved & almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; & finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage & kindness of strangers, including guards & civilians, helped save these women & their children. Sixty-five years later, the three `miracle babies` met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other ”siblings of the heart.” In Born Survivors, Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays & the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers & their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care & to love amid inconceivable cruelty.
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