Colchester, Harwich & Clacton-on-Sea area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 184, paper version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series. MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures & catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There were Smooth Newts, mottled like the fighter planes in the comics he read, & the longed-for Great Crested Newt, with its huge golden eye. The gardens of Richard & his reptile-crazed friends filled up with old bath tubs containing lizards, toads, Marsh Frogs, newts, Grass Snakes &, once, an Adder. Besides capturing them, he wanted to understand them. What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through the winter, to shed your skin & taste wafting chemicals on your tongue? Richard has continued to ask these questions during a lifetime of fascinated study. Part natural-history guide to these animals, part passionate nature writing, & part personal story, Cold Blood is an original & perceptive memoir about our relationship with nature. Through close observation, it shows how even the suburbs can seem wild when we get close to these thrilling, weird & uncanny animals. ...

As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures & catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest he could get to the African wildlife he watched on television. There were Smooth Newts, mottled like the fighter planes in the comics he read, & the longed-for Great Crested Newt, with its huge golden eye. The gardens of Richard & his reptile-crazed friends filled up with old bath tubs containing lizards, toads, Marsh Frogs, newts, Grass Snakes &, once, an Adder. Besides capturing them, he wanted to understand them. What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through the winter, to shed your skin & taste wafting chemicals on your tongue? Richard has continued to ask these questions during a lifetime of fascinated study. Part natural-history guide to these animals, part passionate nature writing, & part personal story, Cold Blood is an original & perceptive memoir about our relationship with nature. Through close observation, it shows how even the suburbs can seem wild when we get close to these thrilling, weird & uncanny animals. ...

Various snow & ice climbs in Britain are described in this book in a series of 60 essays. Each climb is described by a leading climber & the book offers a history of each climb. Ken Wilson has also written Hard Rock, Classic Rock & Black Cliff. ...

A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century, the ” Penguin Classics” edition of Stella Gibbons` ” Cold Comfort Farm” is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of ” Eats, Shoots & Leaves”. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire & damnation; their sons, lustful Seth & despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; & crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense & a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in h&. A hilarious & ruthless parody of rural melodramas & violet prose, ” Cold Comfort Farm” is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. This new ” Penguin Classics” edition

Includes:: an introduction by Lynne Truss discussing Stella Gibbons` unconventional life & career & her joyously satirical voice. Stella Gibbons (1932-89) novelist, poet & short-story writer, was educated at North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the ” Evening Standard” & published several books of poetry & short stories. If you enjoyed ” Cold Comfort Farm” you might like George & Weedon Grossmith`s ” Diary of a Nobody”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” Brilliant.. .very probably the funniest book ever written”. (Julie Burchill, ” Sunday Times”). ” Literary bliss”. (” Guardian”).

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Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenl&. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse society under attack, they also come to uncover their own demons, as it becomes apparent that a plague pandemic is sweeping across the planet & communication with the outside world is breaking down. Increasingly unsure whether their missives will ever reach their destination, each of the characters writes a letter to someone close to them, trying to make sense of their situation & expressing their fears & dwindling hope of ever getting back home... ...

On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared & hasn`t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she`d turned away a customer & returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal, uneasy reality. He soon finds the first body
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Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans ...

Published for the first time in flipback
- the new, portable, stylish format that`s taken Europe by storm. A soldier wounded
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A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield & begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, & to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. ...