In Calm by Lonely Planet you can access the secrets to serenity from cultures around the world. When you need to keep your cool, learn to laugh down your fears at Halloween; send your worries to Guatemalan worry dolls to look after for you; step outside yourself at a Venetian masquerade ball; focus on a single target like a Bhutanese archer; access theta brain waves with Malian drumming; become one with your natural environment like an Inuit kayaker. All around the world people find ways to contend with the stresses of daily life. Here are fifty of these calming cultural secrets as well as methods for applying them at home. Bring a little slice of serenity to your busy life! ...

Everyone wants to feel calm & happy, but few of us manage it. The truth is that we are just not equipped for the twenty-first century
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This mini edition of In Calm from Lonely Planet lets you access the secrets to serenity from cultures around the world. All around the world people find ways to contend with the stresses of daily life. Here are fifty calming cultural secrets as well as methods for applying them at home. When you need to keep your cool, send your worries to Guatemalan worry dolls, step outside yourself at a Venetian masquerade ball, focus on a single target like a Bhutanese archer, access theta brain waves with Malian drumming or maybe become one with your natural environment like an Inuit kayaker. ...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks
- lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual
- finds himself on a Buddhist

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Calne in 1899 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. Calne became a borough in 1086 & was a prosperpous cloth town in the middle ages, but by the 1890s it was better known for bacon. The town had its own railway branch, shown here with station & Black Dog Siding, & other features include The Str&, workhouse, bacon factory, St Mary`s church, etc. To the west of Calne, vast areas of fields dominate the landscape, which the River Marden & the Wilts & Berks Canal cut through on their way to the heart of the town. Along with Kingsbury Green, all the schools, hospitals, allotments & the town centre are marked on to give you a true impression of what the town felt like in 1899. On the reverse is a commercial directory & the Calne Branch train timetable. 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. ...

Caltanissetta Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Calvados & Manche départments of Normandy at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series of France, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, street plans of Caen, Cherbourg-Octeville & St-Lô, plus insets for the Channel Islands. Coverage

Includes:: Bayeux, Honfleur, Deauville, Mont-St-Michel, the Cotetin Peninsula, the D-Day Landings Beaches, etc. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – in the south-east coverage stops just short of Argentan. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.





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Cycling map of the department of Calvados on the coast Normandy, an area Approx. 110 x 60 km. Topographic base is overprinted with 58 cycling routes of various lengths & difficulty: eight routes of over 100 km for experienced riders & 50 shorter routes between 28km & 86 km. Symbols highlight locations of tourist offices & recommended starting points of each route. The map has no geographical coordinates. Map legend & various notes include English. Also provided are contact details for local tourist offices & other useful organizations. This title is part of a series of maps for hiking, cycling & other outdoor pursuits published by the IGN in cooperation with local authorities, ramblers' associations, cycling clubs, etc. The maps are designed to provide information on places of interest, recreational facilities, various types of accommodation, local & long-distance footpaths, bridleways, cycling & mountain bike routes, etc. ...

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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Calverley in 1915 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 Calverley, north of Pudsey. Features include Brookleigh, St Wilfrid`s church, Calverley Cutting, Lydgate Mills, Clover Greaves Mill, Victoria Park, Calverley Wood, etc. Coverage extends eastward to Calverley Bridge, with a station on Midland Railway. North of the River Aire are smaller portions of Horsforth with Low Hall, & Rawdon with Low Mills. On the reverse are 1889 & 1936 directories of Calverley. 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. ...