Brittany`s richly layered landscape has contributed depth & character to the region`s traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea & shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops & secretive forests. Evangelizing Dark Age saints from Britain laid the foundations of Breton language & society, imposing Christianity on the landscape & in the minds of the people. Their legacy rests visually in the prolific spread of chapels, churches & cathedrals, & the Celtic language still preserved with pride. Right on the edge of Europe, the region has been vulnerable to assault & exploitation. Franks, Vikings, English, Germans have all made their mark, resisted at every turn with resilience. The problematic relationship with neighbouring France before & after Union in 1532 has left wounds to this day. The rapacity of the ancien regime was followed by deprivation of privileges during the Revolution, attacks on religion & subsequent suppression of the Breton language which struck at the very heart of Brittany. The nineteenth century combined economic stagnation with growing interest in Celtic roots, fuelling the search for that ultimate chimera
- Breton identity. Historians & poets began to assert the distinct character of the region, while foreign travellers also left accounts of a people speaking an unfathomable language & appearing a race apart. This ”primitivism” coupled with the lure of the mysterious megaliths created an image of wild exoticism, & made Brittany a prime target for tourists & artists. Today the past is perpetuated & the future welcomed in a packed festival calendar of Celtic music & Breton culture. Yet for all its modernity, Brittany remains as intensely complex & challenging to preconceived notions as ever. LANDSCAPE & LEGENDS: Marches of Brittany; Druids & megaliths; St-Malo & sea adventures; mysteries of the Monts d` Arree; Merlin in the Foret de Broceliande. COMPLEXITY & AMBIGUITY: part of France yet a separate world; nationalism, regionalism, resistance, unity & division of language; four departments or five? WRITERS & ARTISTS: Chaucer, Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Ernest Renan, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Arthur de la Borderie, Mathurin Meheut, Max Jacob, Yves Tanguy.
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Free & fee-charging service areas in Brittany providing motorhome service points, campsites and/or parking only facilities, overprinted on Michelin’s double-sided road map of the region at 1:200, 000. Accompanying table, listing all the highlighted sites alphabetically by department, shows their location with full address & GPS coordinates, plus indicates which of these facilities are provided & if a fee is charged. Also included is a distance/driving times table for Brittany.PLEASE NOTE: Les Editions Trailer’s Park also publish a map showing free motorhome stopovers in the whole of France. ...

Brittany on a waterproof & tear-resistant, indexed road map from the Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey. To present the whole region at 1:175, 000, the map is double-sided, dividing Brittany east/west & presenting it on three panels
- on one side coverage along Brittany’s coastline extends from west of St. Malo to Lorient on the southern coast; the rest of the region is on the reverse, shown on two overlapping panels. Road network is shown on a clear base, with colouring indicating regional parks & other protected areas. Scenic routes are highlighted & driving distances are marked on main & connecting secondary routes. Railway lines & ferry connections are included & local airports are marked. A range of small symbols shows various places of interest, including campsites. The map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English.


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Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being ” British” meant for nearly a decade, ever since his friend Ardal O` Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised, teased, vaguely insulted or possibly all three
- because it has always been very difficult to know how to feel about being British. & then the London Olympics came along. We gave the world a gleaming new vision of Britain; a smiling Britain of achievement, a Britain responsible for leading the world into the modern era through the Agrarian & Industrial revolutions, a nation proud to embrace multi-culturalism, individuality, & eccentricity. A country where a major politician can dangle helplessly from a zip wire like a discarded straw dolly & gain in popularity, & whose Queen can send herself up & then descend by parachute. The unexpected legacy of the Games has been a Britain with a new found self-confidence in which we all know how to be British.A Britain which should be embarrassed by nothing & proud of everything, from sheep to chimneys to the Spice Girls to industrial action & what had always previously been described as our ”ailing transport network”. A Britain which having been pinned firmly in its own half, has dribbled the length of the field, nutmegged the defenders, unleashed a curling dipping shot into the top right hand corner, scored a wonder goal & is now kissing the badge. This is Hugh Dennis` exploration of the changing image of Britain & Britishness.
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Street plan of Brive-la-Gaillarde, 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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Brixton & Herne Hill in 1870 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. Three versions for this area have been published, stretching from Branksome Road & Strathleven Road eastward to Beckwith Road, & from Pulross Road & Brixton station southward to Brixton prison. The left half of the map covers Brixton, with Brixton Hill running north-south; further east is Herne Hill, & Herne Hill itself runs northward through the map, lined with villas. Also crossing the map are railways, with Herne Hill station near the foot. Other features include Helix Gardens, Effra Road, Atlantic Road, Mayall Road, Railton Road, Coldharbour Lane, Loughborough Park, St Matthew`s church, Brixton Hall, Lambeth Water Works, beer bottling works, Lowden Road, Brockwell Hall, north part of Brockwell Park, St Jude`s church, Casino House, & Loughborough Park station. The prison is blank on 1894 map but shown on 1870 version. The maps have directory extracts on the reverse; 1894 map has street entries for Atlantic Road, The Avenue, Brixton Hill, Railton Road; 1913 version has street directory entries for Acre Lane, Coldharbour Lane, Effra Road, Fawnbrake Avenue, Railton Road. 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. ...

Brixton & Herne Hill in 1894 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. Three versions for this area have been published, stretching from Branksome Road & Strathleven Road eastward to Beckwith Road, & from Pulross Road & Brixton station southward to Brixton prison. The left half of the map covers Brixton, with Brixton Hill running north-south; further east is Herne Hill, & Herne Hill itself runs northward through the map, lined with villas. Also crossing the map are railways, with Herne Hill station near the foot. Other features include Helix Gardens, Effra Road, Atlantic Road, Mayall Road, Railton Road, Coldharbour Lane, Loughborough Park, St Matthew`s church, Brixton Hall, Lambeth Water Works, beer bottling works, Lowden Road, Brockwell Hall, north part of Brockwell Park, St Jude`s church, Casino House, & Loughborough Park station. The prison is blank on 1894 map but shown on 1870 version. The maps have directory extracts on the reverse; 1894 map has street entries for Atlantic Road, The Avenue, Brixton Hill, Railton Road; 1913 version has street directory entries for Acre Lane, Coldharbour Lane, Effra Road, Fawnbrake Avenue, Railton Road. 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. ...

Brixton & Herne Hill in 1913 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. Three versions for this area have been published, stretching from Branksome Road & Strathleven Road eastward to Beckwith Road, & from Pulross Road & Brixton station southward to Brixton prison. The left half of the map covers Brixton, with Brixton Hill running north-south; further east is Herne Hill, & Herne Hill itself runs northward through the map, lined with villas. Also crossing the map are railways, with Herne Hill station near the foot. Other features include Helix Gardens, Effra Road, Atlantic Road, Mayall Road, Railton Road, Coldharbour Lane, Loughborough Park, St Matthew`s church, Brixton Hall, Lambeth Water Works, beer bottling works, Lowden Road, Brockwell Hall, north part of Brockwell Park, St Jude`s church, Casino House, & Loughborough Park station. The prison is blank on 1894 map but shown on 1870 version. The maps have directory extracts on the reverse; 1894 map has street entries for Atlantic Road, The Avenue, Brixton Hill, Railton Road; 1913 version has street directory entries for Acre Lane, Coldharbour Lane, Effra Road, Fawnbrake Avenue, Railton Road. 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. ...

Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war & a child`s struggle to come to terms with loss. London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos & the rubble. All around police sirens & ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, & he is distraught. But who is he looking for? To find out we have first to go back thirty years to a small island in the Indian Ocean where a little girl named Alice Fonseka is learning to ride a bicycle on the beach. The island is Sri Lanka, & its community is on the brink of civil war. Alice`s life is about to change forever. Soon she will have to leave for Engl&, abandoning her beloved grandfather, & accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman broken by a series of terrible events. In London, Alice grows into womanhood. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she has a son. Slowly she fulfils her grandfather`s prophecy & becomes an artist. Eventually she finds true love. But London in the twenty-first century is a mass of migration & suspicion. The war on terror has begun & everyone, even Simon Swann, middle class, rational, medic that he is, will be caught up in this war in the most unexpected & terrible way. ...

Street plan of Brno from Freytag & Berndt’s Czech subsidiary, presenting the whole city at 1:16, 000 with a very clear, detailed enlargement of the city centre, plus contact details for hotels & other tourist accommodation, etc. On one side the whole city is shown at 1:16, 000, with four panels on the reverse extending coverage to the outlaying suburbs & the Brno Circuit motorsport race track. Tram, bus & trolleybus routes are shown with stops & line numbers. For motorists the map indicates main traffic arteries, one way streets, petrol stations & car parks. Symbols mark locations of various places of interest & facilities. The index, on the reverse side,

Includes:: lists of the city’s hotels & pensions, information centres, cultural institutions, etc, with their phone numbers. The reverse side also has a very clear, detailed enlargement if the city centre, with small drawings highlighting the main sights, plus a road map showing the city’s environs at 1:200.000. Map legend & the accompanying text include English.

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