` She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can`t be shown that something interesting comes to light. That is the point of no return, the point that must be reached, the point you reach after crossing the border of what has already been said, what has already been seen. It`s cold out there.` This hybrid novel-part research notes, part fictionalised diary, & part travelogue-uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist`s own concerns as she comes of age as an artist, a daughter, & a sister to an autistic brother. Conceptual & emotionally compelling, it advances fearlessly into the frozen emotional lacunae of difficult family relationships. Deserving winner of multiple awards upon its Catalan & Spanish publication, Brother in Ice is a richly rewarding journey into the unknown. ...

' The pain in my side hasn't been diagnosed but I'm sure it's Korea. A little Korean tumour there between the pancreas & liver, or maybe a Korean tear in the muscle around the ribs, a Korean hernia, a persistent Korean funk.. .the Hermit Kingdom took a huge piece of me, she vigorously broke me down & forced me to start life over'. Locked up for three & a half years for smuggling hashish, young American Cullen Thomas found himself struggling to survive in South Korea's harshest prisons. In this evocative memoir, he describes the extraordinary people he encountered: the Pakistani people-traffickers awaiting the death penalty for murder, the Columbian emerald smuggler, the carefree Peruvian luggage thief who travelled the world in a business suit, the American who killed his two sons, the Korean gang leader who inspired him to find dignity & purpose in his life inside prison. As he learned to adapt to both the prison regime & the unspoken rules of Korea's Confucian society, he found within himself a kind of freedom & gratitude to the men he'd come to know, the struggle he'd passed through, to Korea herself. ...

From the acclaimed
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- Chinese novelist, Brothers is a big-spirited comedy of society running amok in modern

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Brothers & Keepers is John Edgar Wideman`s seminal memoir about two brothers
- one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive.
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This is a major new history told from all sides, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. In this blockbusting debut, distinguished American professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager interweaves international events & previously unknown personal accounts to give a brilliant new history of the war, its aftermath & its global impact told from American, Korean, Soviet & Chinese sides. This is the first account to examine not only the military, but the social & political aspects of the war across the whole region
- & it takes the story up to the present day: for the current wrangles are part of a conflict that has been ongoing for more than seventy years. Serious history with a strong narrative, akin to Max Hastings or Antony Beevor, ” Korea: War Without End” is the thrilling & highly original debut of a historian who will clearly go very far indeed. `I entered the prison & walked around & discovered the corpses; they were black & covered with flies. I couldn`t believe how cruelly these civilians were killed.I thought that it didn`t matter whether this was done by the Communists or by our own troops
- it represented the sorrow of a weak people, the tragedy of a civil war`
- Yi Chun-yong, a South Korean prison guard recalls a massacre scene at Taejon prison in 1950.


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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Brough in 1908 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 village of Brough, originally within the parish of Elloughton. Features include the station, a corn factory, wharf, Skillings Lodge Farm, Brough House, etc. Coverage continues north to the Westfield Park area of Elloughton, & features here include Mill Hill & The Castle, (but the village centre is beyond the map). A small portion of southern Brantingham, around the Roman Road, is also on the map. Directories for Brantingham, Brough & Elloughton are on the reverse. 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. ...

Broughton Park & Crumpsall in 1907 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 a busy area of north Manchester centred on the Bury Old Road. To the west is Broughton Park, including Broughton Old Hall, Kersal Towers, Kersal Rectory & many large detached houses off the Bury New Road. Further north is Sedgley Park with Sedgley House (RC Training College), Sedgley New Hall, etc. To the east is Crumpsall House, Castle Hill, Bowker Bank Works, Crumpsall Green, Miltonville, Crumpsall station, Crumpsall Crescent, Wesleyan Cemetery, St Mary`s church, etc. Part of Cheetham Hill (as far south as Darlington Street) is at the foot of the map. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Broughton Park, Bury Old Road, Crescent Road, Crumpsall Lane, Pons Street & Singleton 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. ...

Broughty Ferry in 1901 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 Broughty Ferry, just east of Dundee. Coverage runs from West Queen Street eastward to Barnhill station, & from Fintry Place southward to Broughty Castle. Features include railway with Broughty Ferry & Barnhill stations, Pier Branch with station, Pier, Broughty Castle, King Street area, Brook Street area, Camperdown Nursery, St Stephen`s church, St Luke`s UF church, Balgillo House, Fort Hill, Castle Green, Reres Hill, Castleroy, Camp Hill, Dalhousie Nursery, The Bughties, etc. On the reverse are extracts from a contemporary trade directory. 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. ...

Map No. 115, Broumovsko
- Adrs-tepl. Skaly, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000
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