This beautiful guide makes the vast enigma of China accessible to every traveller. Popular features include insider tips from National Geographic experts; not-to-be-missed lists; experiential sidebars; sections on contemporary life, history, & culture; special excursions; &, handy maps & a hefty Travelwise selection with h&-picked hotels & restaurants. ...

This beautiful guide makes the vast enigma of China accessible to every traveller. Popular features include insider tips from National Geographic experts; not-to-be-missed lists; experiential sidebars; sections on contemporary life, history, & culture; special excursions; &, handy maps & a hefty Travelwise selection with h&-picked hotels & restaurants. ...

China wall map at 1:4, 750, 000, size 120 x 88cm (47 x 35 approx)
- paper version, from Gizi Maps, showing the topography
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Western China at 1:2, 700, 000 on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, with both topographic & tourist information. The map, part of Reise Know-How's highly acclaimed World Mapping Project is double-sided, to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. Topography is indicated by altitude colouring with spot heights & names of mountain ranges, hills & deserts. Salt lakes, swamps, seasonal rivers & glacier are also shown. Detailed presentation of the road network

Includes:: minor roads & tracks. The map also shows the rail network & local airports. Administrative units are shown with their boundaries & names. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. A wide range of symbols mark various places of interest including the Great Wall of China, UNESCO world heritage sites, temples, museums, spas & hot springs, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 2

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Western China on a double-sided, indexed road map from ITMB at 1:3, 000, 000, with three insets providing a street plan of central Lhasa, a wider coverage of the city & a plan of the Norbulingka complex. The map divides the region north/south & coverage extends east to approx. 106° (Lanzhou/ Chengou). The map has altitude colouring in feet, although spot heights are given in metres. Topographic information

Includes:: deserts, swamps, salt lakes & pans, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. All place names are shown only transliterated. Within Tibet, official Chinese versions are used, e.g. Xigaze rather than the traditional Shigatse. The map shows the region’s road & rail networks & highlights numerous places of interest including archaeological ruins, monasteries & other religious sites, etc. Also shown are internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces. The map has latitude & longitude lines are at intervals of 2°. Three insets cover Lhasa: the city at approx. 1:50, 000 with its railway station & temples outside the central district; the Potala area annotated with tourist accommodations & facilities, temples, etc; plus a plan of the Norbulingka complex.

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China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents & great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words
- for the first & perhaps the last time
- the vast changes that have overtaken China`s people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time & place, & a memorial to those who have lived through war & civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, modernization, Westernization
- & have survived into the 21st century. We meet everyday heroes, now in their seventies, eighties & nineties, from across this vast country
- a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary `double-gun woman`, Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a female general, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, & more- those whose voices, as Xinran says, `will help our future understand our past`.



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In Rana Mitter's tense, moving & hugely important book, the war between China & Japan
- one of the most important struggles of
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Map No. G-7D in the TPC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:500, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. TPC stands for Tactical Pilotage Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 500ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each TPC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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Map No. F-10 in the ONC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:1, 000, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. ONC stands for Operational Navigation Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 1000ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each ONC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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Map No. F-6D in the TPC series: military topographic survey mapping covering the world's land masses & significant islands at 1:500, 000. The maps are useful as general topographical coverage where nothing else is available, although they are designed primarily as flying charts for military aircraft. TPC stands for Tactical Pilotage Chart. Relief is portrayed by a combination of contours (basic interval 500ft, intermediate contours shown where appropriate), elevation tinting & relief shading, plus spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named & the road information is not necessarily up to date, as compilation & revision dates vary. Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Each TPC chart has both UTM & latitude/longitude grids overprinted on it, with additional margin ticks. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: The series is gradually being withdrawn from sale to the general public & some sheets may no longer be available when ordered by us. Due to the nature of the map projection assembling these sheets to make a larger map is not recommended. in addition, colours used for relief are not constant throughout the series. In some areas of central Africa & South America the maps have blank spaces, reflecting localized deficiencies or inconsistencies in the survey data.
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