French administrative region of Burgundy at 1:200, 000 in a series of double-sided touring maps from Michelin. The map



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A circuit along the canals of western Burgundy in a series of guides from Editions Grafocarte/ Editions de l` Ecluse to France’s canals & navigable waterways with mapping showing facilities & navigational hazards along each route, general information on signals & regulations, & descriptions of places of interest. Coverage

Includes:: the Yonne, Canal du Nivernais, Canal lateral à la Loire, Canal de Briare & Canal du Loing, plus a spur from Decize to Digoin along the Canal lateral à la Loire. Each guide provides mapping of the route showing locks, stop gates, mooring quays, tunnels, weirs, dangerous shoals, sand or mud banks, etc., as well as a wide range of facilities from drinking water & rubbish disposal to various types of shops, restaurants, pharmacies, shipyards & engine repair workshops, etc. The mapping is usually presented as vertical 28 x 8.5cm panels which, together with the annotations, occupy one whole page of the guide & so each cover 14km or more of the route. Also included as necessary are more detailed enlargements of main basins or photographs of bridges, shown usually as viewed from both directions. The text providing navigational information & tips as well as descriptions of places of interest & a general background are kept separate from the maps but, where possible, placed on the adjoining page to the relevant section of the route. The guides also provide general information on rules & regulations, plus illustrations of navigational signals. Each guide also has an index of locations along the route annotated with symbols indicating various facilities, accompanied where possible with contact details.* All of the text, explanations & the map legend are in French, English & German.** Please note:** The publishers’ name has changed from Editions Grafocarte to Editions de l’ Ecluse & the series name shown on each title is Fluviacarte of Navicarte depending on whether mapping of coastal waters is included. Various combinations of these names can be found"ed in other publications on French waterways.

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La Grande Côte wine growing region of Burgundy south of Dijon on a detailed map showing the area’s road network with locations of its famous vineyards of Côte de Nuits & Côte de Beaune. Colouring distinguishes between communal & regional AOC appellations, each annotated with a list of names.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available from Editions Benoit as a wall map. The same map but in slightly different colouring is also published by IGN’s as “ Burgundy Côte d’ Or Wine Map”, laid out in a landscape format with the west on top & with additional lists of communes. ...

Get ready for a prehistoric adventure! We discover ghostly Maes Howe, an enormous 5, 000-year-old tomb covered in Viking graffiti. Britain is jam-packed with these mystical, silent burial places, & exploring them can tell us about the culture, society & beliefs of our earliest ancestors. It`s time to get out your magnifying glass & examine the real artefacts that archaeologists have uncovered, from the giant capstones of megalithic tombs to the treasure of an ancient chieftain! Prehistoric burial places lie silent across the British countryside. Long & round barrows, megalithic tombs & passage graves all provide important evidence of the daily life & burial practices of Stone, Bronze & Iron age communities. It`s time to take a closer look at these ancient landmarks to find out why they were built, how they were used & who they were used by. Learn about Maes Howe, West Kennet Long Barrow, Bush Barrow, Pentre Ifan, Lanyon Quoit & many more incredible sites of ancient burials, including the chariot queen, that can be found across Britain & give evidence of the lives of prehistoric people. There are four titles in the Prehistoric Adventures series, looking at stone circles, ancient settlements, burial places & hill forts. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD. Northern Icel&, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems, & time is running out: winter is coming, & with it the execution date. Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes`s story. ...

Following her highly successful Book Addict`s Treasury, compiled with Lynda Murphy, Julie Rugg returns with a second anthology of literary extracts, "ations & bon mots concerning every aspect of bookish behaviour: reading, buying. borrowing, recommending, hunting, even defacing. This anthology

Includes:: diaries, memoirs, novels, plays & letters by authors from Samuel Pepys to Iain Sinclair, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Nick Hornby, from Laurence Sterne to Lucy Mangan. A perfect gift for the book obsessive in your life.

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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world`s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty & political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access & interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time. Peter Zuckerman & Amanda Padoan explore the intersecting lives of Chhiring Dorje Sherpa & Pasang Lama, following them from their villages high in the Himalaya to the slums of Kathmandu, across the glaciers of Pakistan to K2 Base Camp. When disaster strikes in the Death Zone, Chhiring finds Pasang stranded on an ice wall, without an axe, waiting to die. The rescue that follows has become the stuff of mountaineering legend. At once a gripping, white-knuckled adventure & a rich exploration of Sherpa customs & culture, Buried in the Sky re-creates one of the most dramatic catastrophes in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective. ...

Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man`s family still want answers. It is one of the many unsolved crimes left for Department Q, Denmark`s cold case unit headed up by Detective Carl Morck. But what Carl doesn`t know is that the key to the investigation is in Copenhagen. Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson is tough, smart & suspicious of police. Sleeping rough & hiding in the shadows is his way of life. But what is he running from
- & what does he know worth killing him for?
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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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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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