Pictura is a stunning range of black-&-white artworks to collect & colour for all ages. This exciting new format



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te Neues London City Journal

Includes:: 184 blank & lined pages, a few contact numbers & websites for tourist

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The 2016 offering from Big Picture Press`s Welcome to the Museum series, Botanicum is a stunningly curated guide to plant life. With artwork from Katie Scott of Animalium fame, Botanicum gives readers the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the pages of a beautiful book. From perennials to bulbs to tropical exotica, Botanicum is a wonderful feast of botanical knowledge complete with superb cross sections of how plants work. ...

This elegant mini edition of Botanicum is the perfect gift for nature-lovers or anyone who appreciates beautiful books. Wander the galleries
- open 365 days a year
- & discover a collection of curated exhibits on every page, accompanied by informative text. Each chapter features a different branch of the tree of life. Welcome to the museum!

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Following the incredible Botanicum, Katie Scott returns with a companion activity book. Bursting with fascinating facts & puzzles, this book offers hours of entertainment to artists & nature lovers. Beautiful & inspiring, the myriad activities in this book challenge the reader to discover something new & use their imagination to draw, decorate & design on every pull-out page. ...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious & immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils
- prone to playing tricks on their new, naive teacher; the staff
- vain, immoral, & in danger of becoming a bad influence on Botchan; & from his own as-yet-unformed nature, as he finds his place in the world. One of the most popular novels in Japan where it is considered a classic of adolescence, as seminal as ” The Catcher in the Rye”, ” Botchan” is as funny, poignant & memorable as it was when first published, over 100 years ago. In J. Cohn`s introduction to his colourful translation, he discusses ” Botchan`s” success, the book`s clash between Western intellectualism & traditional Japanese values, & the importance of names & nicknames in the novel.

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Botchan, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, is a classic of its kind, a sly, funny, poignant tale about a young mans rebellion against the system. Since its original publication 100 years ago, it has enjoyed a timeless popularity among Japanese readers both young & old, making it, according to Donald Keene, probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan.
The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent four years teaching English in a middle school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties & established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; & the result is a chain of collisions large & small.
Most of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas & the sting of mosquitoes. & in every way this is a summer book--light, sunny, & fun to read. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to the American reader, Botchan should continue to entertain even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place.

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Bothwell & Blantyre in 1897 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 the town centre of Bothwell plus Blantyre on the other bank of the Clyde. Features include Blantyre Works, Low Blantyre, Bothwell Castle Colliery, southern part of Bothwell Castle, Caledonian Railway with Blantyre station, David Livingstone`s Birthplace, Madder Mill, Powerloom Factory, Caledonian Bothwell Branch with terminus, NBR railway with Bothwell station, Craighead House, Silverwells area, church, Kirkfield area, etc. On the reverse are directories of Bothwell for 1892-93 & 1911-12. 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. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000. The series was last revised in the early eighties. Contour interval is 20 meters. In addition to the usual features shown on survey mapping, the maps also include a large amount of information indicating the type of the terrain & land use (block or smooth surfaced lava, clay, boulders, sand & dunes, cultivated area, meadows, pastures, bogs, wetlands, etc.) & details not often found on maps: physicians' residences, parsonages, etc. Each map covers an area of 44 x 40 km / 27 x 25 miles. Margin ticks give latitude & longitude in steps of 6'. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Botswana at 1:1, 000, 000 on a large map from Tracks 4 Africa: GPS compatible, with roads & tracks showing both driving times & distances, & printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. On one side is a map of the whole country, including Namibia ...