An Observer & Telegraph Book of the Year Baguette is just a regular house cat. He likes to sit in the window, watch the birds, & eat three square meals a day. But what`s a regular house cat to do if he falls in love with a beautiful street cat who has some very strange
- & really rather dangerous
- demands? Baguette must travel back through the Ocean of Time to the lost island of Catlantis. He must find a way to save the nine lives of all cats before it is too late. & he must outwit the wicked black cat Noir, who is hot on his tail. Only then can he hope to win the paw of Purriana...` Madcap & highly original` Observer, Children`s Books of the Year

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Catllaràs Picancel in an extensive & very popular series of walking maps from Editorial Alpina covering the Pyrenees, Catalonia & other selected hiking areas in Spain, including Picos de Europa, Sierra Nevada & parts of Andalucía, Majorca, etc. Scales vary from 1:50, 000 to 1:10, 000, with the majority of the titles at 1:25, 000. The maps have contours, usually at 20m or 10m intervals, with additional hill shading & spot heights. An overprint highlights hiking trails, long-distance footpaths, campsites, mountain huts, refuges, etc. Many maps also show climbing sites, potholing caves, mountain bike routes, equestrian & ski centres. All the latest editions have a UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Map legend in most titles

Includes:: English. Each title has a separate booklet with general information on the area, descriptions of selected hiking routes, a list of accommodation with addresses, etc. In several titles the booklet now

Includes:: English.* In this title:* Contours at 10m intervals, relief shading & vegetation colouring. UTM grid & 1’ margin ticks. In addition to the footpaths, the overprint shows various types of accommodation (hotels, youth hostels, campsites, refuges), information centres, places of interest, climbing sites, locations of petrol stations in the surrounding villages & approach roads, etc. Map legend & the booklet with descriptions of the area & 16 hiking routes include English.



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Twenty favourite Christmas carols, rewritten from a feline perspective & celebrating all the joys of the Christmas season--new catnip toys, yummy dinner scraps & the ornaments shining temptingly from the tree, for example. With classics like ` Oh, Hold Me Right` (`O, Holy Night`), ` The First Meow` (` The First Noel`), ` Wreck the Halls` (` Deck the Halls`), & `O, Little Town of Cat Mayhem` (`O, Little Town of Bethlehem`), Catmas Carols is sure to unite festive cat lovers everywhere. ...

Match the cats & kittens of 25 breeds from around the world in this beautifully illustrated memory game. To play, simply place the cards face down & see if you can remember where the mother cat & her kitten are located. Collect more pairs than your opponent to win! With all kinds of breeds included
- from the British Shorthair to the Siamese, & from the Maine Coon to the hairless Sphynx
- this fun & educational game will appeal to cat lovers everywhere.

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Loved & cherished, praised & admired, hated & feared
- more than any other domesticated creature, cats provoke extremes of
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Find out who`s the cat that got the cream with this beautifully illustrated set of cards. Does a Persian need more grooming than a Birman? Has a Turkish Van got a louder purr than a British Shorthair? Is a Siamese more independent than a Ragdoll? With 30 cat cards, each with scores in 6 categories to choose from, you`ll have hours of fun playing Cats: Best in Show. ...

Map No. 755, Catskill Park NY at 1:75, 000 in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.* *IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.*

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Known as the Transkeian beak who had a soft spot for the reivers & rustlers of his unruly district, Frank Brownlee established a reputation as the pioneer transcriber of oral testimony into written texts. The Sunday Times described his Cattle Thief as 'a picaresque novel, its hero having a well developed inherited appetite for other people's property, notably their cattle & horses'. The second work included here
- published for the first time
- features Christina as Brownlee's indiscreet informant. As she remarks to him: ' Yes, it's only an old Griqua woman what's talking to you. But we has our inside feelings.' The vernacular farrago which follows is to be savoured for the sympathetic manner in which it reveals a vanished lifestyle on the old Cape frontier.

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Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon &, worse still, surviving it.. . Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding `fathers` of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh... ...

If you look up at the sky on a dark night, what do you see? There`s a whole universe staring back at you. In the company of Felicity the cat discover the phases of the moon, the constellations & how to spot the Northern Lights & the Milky Way. This beautiful, fun book will introduce you to the beauty of the night sky & show you the stars like you`ve never seen them before. ...