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. ...

No. 1 international bestseller & Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg`s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom & Erica Falck
- irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson & Jo Nesbo. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind
- including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the isl&. She & her husband have suffered the loss of their only child & are looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE FUTURE Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation, aided by his wife, crime writer Erica Falck, who has always been fascinated by the mystery of Ebba`s abandonment & the family`s tragic history. When dried blood is found under the floorboards of the old house, it seems that the cold case involving the missing family is about to be brought back to life. & soon, Patrik & Erica are consumed by the hunt for a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried...

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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. ...

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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Simon Norfolk`s book Afghanistan; chronotopia is now recognised as a classic of photography. It establised Norfolk`s reputation as one of the leading photographers in the world & has been exhibited in more than 30 venues worldwide. For the first time since 2001, Simon Norfolk has returned to the country. This time he follows in the footsteps of the Irish photographer John Burke, a superb, yet virtually unknown, war photographer whose eloquent & beautiful photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) form a most extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives & huge wooden cameras Burke shot landscapes, battlefields, archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers & ethnological group portraits of Afghans in what amounts to a record of an Imperial encounter. The range of work is tremendously broad & yet suffused with a delicate humanism. These are also the first ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one hundred & thirty years too late, John Burke`s time has at last come. Norfolk`s new work looks at what happens when you add half a trillion US war dollars to an impoverished & broken country such as Afghanistan. Very loosely re-photographic in nature, the work is more of an ` Improvisation on a theme` by John Burke, & is presented as an artistic collaboration between Burke & Norfolk. It features photographs by Burke never before published as well as Norfolk`s new pictures from Kabul & Helm&. ...

General reference map with an index & simple plans of Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso. Altitude tinting gives an impression of relief, & regions subject to periodic flooding are indicated. Road classification distinguishes all-weather roads, seasonal roads & tracks. On selected major routes the driving distances are indicated. Parks & reserves are shown & a range of symbols depict various features eg. airports & airfields, petrol stations, post offices, hospitals & accommodation. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1 ...

General map of the country with relief shading, showing a large number of small villages & settlements. Roads are classified according to their usability in wet conditions. Towns with accommodation are marked, as are fuelling stations. Nature reserves & rivers, both permanent & intermittent, are also shown. Latitude & logitude at intervals of 1 degree are marked in the margins & indicated by ticks on the map itself. Four insets show simple street plans of Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso, administrative divisions of the country, & the distribution of its ethnic groups. The legend is in French only. ...