The Condor Circuit at 1:50, 000/1:25, 000 in a series of contoured, GPS compatible trekking & exploration maps at various scales form Trekkingchile. The main map at 1:50, 000 covers the trekking area from Vilches Alto & Parque Inglés eastwards beyond Volcán Descabezado Grande. Contours are at 50m intervals. The map shows local roads, paths & trekking trails. Symbols highlight various accommodation facilities (hotels, campsites, refuges), eateries & grocery stores, sport & recreational sites, etc. The map has a UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1’. On the reverse two areas are shown in greater detail at 1:25, 000: the Reserva Nacional Altos de Lircay & Parque Nacional Siete Tazas. Also included is a table listing local amenities with contract numbers, indicating what services are provided there. Maps in the Trekkingchile series use satellite imagery as a base, with contour lines & colouring to indicate different types of terrain & habitats. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual descriptions, the maps have a UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude. The maps are annotated with tourist information & most titles include a street plan of the region’s main town. Many are illustrated with drawings of local fauna or flora. Map legends & other text include English. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

This series of Odos cycling maps are at a scale of 1:35, 000 & have prominently marked out cycling routes that are differentiated into different types of cycle situation & terrain. Ideal for planning suitable routes & knowing which routes to avoid whether you are on a mountain bike or road bike. These maps are also suitable for walking & horseback riding. Routes marked include: cycle path, cycle route with low motor traffic, cycle route with moderate motor traffic, cycle route on unpaved country road, motorway, district road, secondary paved road, unsurfaced road & footpath. Campsites & other useful details are also marked. With elevation markings, UTM coordinate references, longitude & latitude lines at 3’ intervals. Accompanied by a colour booklet with around 40 pages with places of interest & suggested routes with symbols to indicate difficulty, distances there & back. Please note that the booklet is in Italian but map legend

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Chief Inspector Daniel Jac has been enjoying the quiet life in a peaceful Provencal village. A former rugby international, who once scored the winning try against England at Twickenham, Jac sports a trademark ponytail & loves food, wine
- & one woman, artist Claudine. Now, however, he must leave her to go to Paris, where Marseilles Magistrate, Solange Bonnefoy`s niece has been abducted. As the trail of violence & corruption leads Jac back to the ancient seaport, with its bloody history of slave trafficking, another utterly shocking & unexpected murder sets the investigation galloping in a wholly new direction & Jac has to go undercover.
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From 2015 Man Booker International finalist, Mia Couto My sister Silencia was the most recent victim of the lions, which have been tormenting our village for some weeks now... When Mariamar Mpepe`s sister is killed by lions, her father imprisons her at home. With only the ghost of her sister for company, she dreams of escape, & of the hunter who abandoned her years before. I`m the last of the hunters. & this is my last hunt. Archangel Bullseye, born into a long line of marksmen, is summoned back to Kulumani. But as he tracks the lions in the surrounding wilderness, his suspicions grow
- that the darkest threats lie not outside the village, but at its very heart. What was happening was what always happened: The lions were coming back... Set in a forgotten corner of East Africa haunted by superstition, tradition & the shades of civil war, this is a struggle that blurs the savagery of nature, & the savagery of man.
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' In Cavaillon, there are seventeen bakers listed in the Pages Jaunes, but we had been told that one establishment was ahead of all the rest in terms of choice & excellence, a vertiable palais de pain. At Chez Auzet, so they said, the baking & eating of breads & pastries had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.' This was written in 1988 in one of Peter Mayle's notebooks as he researched A Year in Provence. & ever since his first visit, the Boulangerie Auzet has remained one of his favourite places in the world. Many more people came to visit the bakery after A Year in Provence was published, all wanting more than just bread. They wanted ingredients, recipes, tips
- anything that might help them recreate Boulangerie Auzet in their own kitchens. Confessions of a French Baker will do just that. It will decribe how to make bread & pastries, the secret of handling dough correctly, the history of the shop, some anecdotes, hints & tips, in short, a way of bringing Boulangerie Auzet into your own home.
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This collection of essays arises from a decade of engagement with the public culture of Britain & America. Some have been published in print or on-line; some are appearing here for the first time. I describe them as confessions, since they reveal aspects of my thinking which, if I am to believe the critics, ought to have been kept to myself. I have weeded out material of an academic kind, & have tried to include only those essays that touch on matters of concern to all intelligent people, in the volatile times in which we live. Scrutopia, Christmas 2015 ...

` There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain` A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over & over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed & maimed. But, in the rigid world of imperial wartime Japan there is no place for such transgressive desires. He must wear a false mask & hide his true nature, whatever the cost. ...

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; & the tale he has to tell presents an honest & oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world.
In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, & ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area. He talks about his first police raid, & the brutal interrogation & imprisonment that followed it. He remembers his first love affair, & the girl he ran away with, & the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. Briefly, & matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He explains how the games were run & the profits spent; why the ties between members of the brotherhood were so important; & how he came to kill a man who worked for him.
What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental; stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes; impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined.
And in the end, when his tale is finished, you feel you would probably have liked him if you'd met him in person. Fortunately, Dr. Saga's record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting.


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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist`s counter. The secret of happiness, about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages, could be bought for a penny, & carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey, but he soon discovered that `nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium`. ...