Chartreuse – Belledonne region in a series of GPS compatible, contoured TOP 75 maps at 1:75, 000 from the IGN, highlighting local & long-distance hiking paths, cycling routes & sites for other recreational activities. The map

Includes:: five large panels showing the areas around Pointe de la Gorgeat, Lacs des Sept Laux, Grand Pic de Belledonne, Grand Som, & Dent de Crolles on IGN’s topographic mapping at 1:25, 000 with extensive overprint for local hiking paths & tourist facilities including campsites. Cartography of the main map at 1:75, 000 is a direct enlargement of the mapping used in the IGN’s TOP100 series. Contours are at 40m intervals, enhanced by relief shading; additional colouring shows different types of vegetation (woods, brushwood, vineyards/orchards). Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. An overprint highlights long-distance GR hiking routes & cycling trails. Symbols
- more numerous than on the TOP100 maps
- indicate various places of interest including mountain refuges & gîtes d’etape (campsites on the enlargements), areas for other recreational pursuits such as climbing, hand gliding or water & winter sports, historic or cultural sites, etc. The map has a UTM grid & an index of communes. Map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the main map extends from Chambery & the A43 motorway in the north to Grenoble in the south. To see the list of other maps in this series please click on the series link.





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Canadian Hydrographic Service charts covering Hudson Bay, Baffin Island including Ungava Bay & Gulf of Boothia. This series



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Charts of War: the Map & Charts That Have Informed & Illustrated War at Sea written by John Blake & published by Conway presents a fascinating selection of maps, charts & maritime plans taken from a wide range of international archives. From the ships of small expeditionary fleets which carried navigational charts to the requirements of modern ships involved in combined operations, John Blake has produced a fascinating account of the role that charts have played in planning, preventing, conducting & recording war at sea. The selection

Includes:: not only maps depicting major battles & amphibious operations, but also those drawn up for tactical & espionage purposes, for coastal defence & the positioning of forts along rivers & at the entrance to harbours, etc. Often less well represented in books on cartography or historical mapping, the examples reproduced here range from the earliest maps & charts, through the Age of Discoveries & the colonial expansion to the two World Wars, the Falklands War & the first Gulf War. Two chapters, Birth of a Nation & Brother Against Brother look at the maps & charts from the American War of Independence & the Civil War. European conflicts of the Napoleonic War are also very well represented. Chapters run in chronological order, organized according to the overall political scene. Informative captions accompany each chart, setting it in a historical context.

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Early Europeans may have believed the world was flat, but by the Middle Ages there was widespread acceptance that it was, in fact, a globe. What remained a mystery, however, was what lay on the ”other side”. The belief in a vast southern continent went back centuries, & many expeditions set out to find it, sometimes in search of wealth, sometimes to convert its inhabitants to Christianity. This is the story of the voyages into this great unknown, by the Chinese & early Americans, the Dutch, Spanish, French & English; it recounts the exploits of pirates & scientists, & what lead to the debunking of many myths, from the sunken Great Southern Continent, to the idea that in the ”antipodes”, people walked upside down. ...

Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill`s famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA amongst others
- & recounts how Sir Winston`s trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as `our Greatest Briton`.
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Drawing from official correspondence, merchant`s letters, ship`s logs, & graphic archival material, Kenneth Banks explores the failure of transatlantic communications in helping to develop & maintain French imperialism during the height of France`s first overseas empire in Quebec, New Orleans, & Saint Pierre, Martinique, in the eighteenth century. He provides historical context for the role of communications within the imperial nation-state, using a concept of communications that encompasses a range of human activity, from sailing routes, to mapping, to presses, to building roads & bridges. His comparative analysis integrates three areas usually studied separately
- the settlement colony, the tropical monoculture colony, & the early Enlightenment planned colony. ” Chasing Empire across the Sea” also challenges the very notion of a concrete ”empire” emerging by the first half of the eighteenth century.
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Money as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex & love. Money as status. This travel book explores the uses of money & the attitudes of the wheelers & dealers in the international marketplace. Douglas Kennedy spent a year loitering with intent in six very disparate financial realms, including the Casablanca bourse (where stocks & bonds are listed on a blackboard), the squeaky-clean Singapore money markets, the Sydney futures market & the first Hungarian stock exchange to open since 1948. From the New Age City folk in London, unsure whether greed really is good for you, to the tireless toilers of Wall Street, Kennedy's encounters with money-makers around the globe offer a quirky journey through the modern cash nexus. ...

A blip of prosperity at the turn of the 20th century brought American trout to Patagonia, then for a half-century they were forgotten to fight wars & build a nation. Rediscovered by fishermen a half-century later, the fish had grown to epic proportions. In Chasing Rumor, Cameron Chambers chronicles his modern-day pilgrimage to the rivers of Patagonia in pursuit of these legendary 20-pound trout. What started as a trip focused on catching fish became a love affair with the Patagonian landscape, environment, &, mostly, the people. From a business mogul turned B&B owner to a kid determined to save a local trout population, Chasing Rumor is at times the story of a handful of fishermen, & at other times a tale of enormous trout. ...

Frederik Paulsen`s first great adventure involved taking the reins, at age thirty, of the Ferring pharmaceutical firm founded by his father. After he had transformed the company into a multinational corporation, Paulsen began to recall his childhood dream of discovering unknown lands, sparked by the Viking tales of his native Sweden. He therefore set off to explore realms of ice & snow. In the spring of 2000, he stood at the North Pole
- only to discover that the planet had several other extreme poles: the wandering magnetic pole, to which every compass points; the somewhat more stable geomagnetic pole; & the `pole of inaccessibility`. Since the earth has two hemispheres, these four northern poles have their southern counterparts in the Antarctic. Paulsen therefore set himself the challenge of being the first person to reach all eight poles. Charlie Buffet & Thierry Meyer recount Paulsen`s thirteen-year adventure in freezing, hostile regions that were once the site of historic exploits & are now a laboratory for scientists trying to decipher our planet`s future. The foreword is by Ellen Mac Arthur
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For many years war made Sierra Leone & Liberia too dangerous for outsiders to travel through. Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless militia, child soldiers, brutal violence, blood diamonds & masked figures who guard the spiritual secrets of remote jungle communities. On an epic journey that demands courage, doggedness & sheer luck, Butcher treks for 350 blistering miles through rainforest & malarial swamps to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of an overlooked region on the cusp of a remarkable recovery. ...