The first one-volume walking guide in English to the most popular long-distance route in Europe walked by British tourists. With the advent of low-cost airlines it is as cheap for the British tourist to go to mainland Europe as to the extremities of the UK
- which is why in recent years continental long-distance routes have become increasingly popular with the British walker. Most popular by far is El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the ancient Christian pilgrimage route that has been travelled for over a thousand years to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, where, legend has it, the bones of St James are buried. This guide follows the most popular route, starting at St Jean-Pied-de-Port in south-west France & heading all the way westwards across northern Spain for 800km to finish at Cape Finisterre on the Atlantic coast. Now, extending its series of Trail Guides beyond the UK for the first time, Aurum publishes the first compact one-volume guide to the path, fully illustrated with photography, it offers comprehensive route directions, sectional route maps, gradient profiles, a history of the route & details of sights to see & separate chapter guides to the main cities along the way like Pamplona, & a list of accommodation en route.
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The Valleys of the Meuse & the Chiers in a series of cycling maps from Sportoena covering Belgium & the adjoining regions of the neighbouring countries, with local routes, long-distance cycling paths, classification according to the density of traffic, campsites & places of interest, etc. Brightly coloured base & the presentation of the road network differ greatly from what one usually sees on maps at this scale & may not appeal to all map users, but are designed to provide a clear picture not only of the recommended cycling routes but also of the alternatives along other roads. Colour coding of the routes looks at the first glance somewhat complicated but on closer inspection it does provide a very detailed classification, highlighting the recommended paths whilst at the same time indicating the density of motorized traffic on them. The maps also show routes along rivers or disused railway lines, & where cycling networks have been set up the routes with their orientation post numbers. Long-distance cycling routes are prominently marked. All other roads shown on the maps, from motorways to country lanes, are also classified according to the density of motorized traffic. The maps also show selected hiking paths & railway lines with stations. A range of symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, including campsites & holiday villages, nature reserves, viewpoints, war cemeteries & other memorials or monuments, etc. Topography is meant to be indicated by the colouring of the base, but the gradation of the colours is too fine to provide any effective information. Wooded & heath areas are marked. Most titles are double-sided. The maps have no index or geographical coordinates. Map legend

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Twenty safe walks in the glorious Chiltern countryside. Simple routes with not too many hills, the walks are between 1 & 5 miles in length & offer plenty of variety with nature trails, woods caves & castle ruins to explore, & each walk features a halt for refereshments. ...

Map No. 59, Tipperary North-Central in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. Current 3rd edition of this map was published in October 2011. Maps in the Discovery series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An Óige & independent), tourist offices, parking & picnic places, & viewpoints. Golf courses indicate the number of holes. The maps also highlight antiquities & historical sites such as megalithic tombs, standing stones, battlefields, etc. Road network grades third class roads according to their widths &

Includes:: local tracks. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Where appropriate, place names are given in both Irish & English. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Irish & English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 74, Tipperary South in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. Current 4th edition of this map was published in January 2013. Maps in the Discovery series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An Óige & independent), tourist offices, parking & picnic places, & viewpoints. Golf courses indicate the number of holes. The maps also highlight antiquities & historical sites such as megalithic tombs, standing stones, battlefields, etc. Road network grades third class roads according to their widths &

Includes:: local tracks. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Where appropriate, place names are given in both Irish & English. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Irish & English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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D-Day: Tales from the Front Line is the gripping account of the build-up to & aftermath of the single most decisive battle of the Second World War, as told by participants ranging from generals to frontline soldiers, statesmen & civilians. Compelling first-hand accounts in the form of interviews, letters & diaries, make this a superlative “living history” of a seminal day, & a homage to the bravery & skill of the extraordinary participants – most of them no more than high school age boys – who through their actions shaped modern history, many at the forfeit of their lives. D-day took place almost exactly four years after the date of Churchill’s famous “ We shall fight them on the beaches” speech, & has, as Bastable points out, to this day maintained its ‘mythic resonance’ in the catalogue of military victories: “ For the peoples of the many nations who took part – not just Britons & Americans & Canadians, but Frenchmen, Belgians, Poles, Norwegians, Dutchmen, Danes & some free Germans – D-Day says something meaningful about who they are as a nation, & about what they are capable of at their best.” It is this singular status in modern history that this book pays testament to. A victory which took place in the teeth of the worst storm in thirty years raging across the south of England & which saw nearly 3000 men killed on the three-mile strip of Omaha Beach alone. Bastable’s narrative is chock full of poignant human interest as well as fascinating historical details, such as the M15 visit to a bemused physics teacher who compiled the Daily Telegraph crossword in his spare time, only to be told that he had been inadvertently drawing public attention to highly sensitive military code words, or the fact that Churchill & King George VI initially planned to watch the invasion from a cruiser squadron (much to Eisenhower’s disapproval), before the King had second thoughts & managed to persuade Churchill only after a couple of personal, pleading letters: “I am a younger man than you, I am a sailor, & as King I am the head of all these Services. There is nothing I would like better than to go to sea, but I have agreed to stay at home; is it fair that you should then do exactly what I should have liked to do myself? You said yesterday afternoon that it would be a fine thing for the King to lead his troops into battle, as in the old days; if the King cannot do this, it does not seem to me right that his Prime Minister should take his place.” The book vividly brings to life its cast of modern historical heroes, men as flawed & as great as their classical forebears & certainly as, if not more, eccentric. One such was Lord Lovat who would ‘walk calmly with his head held high while all the rest of us would be ducking & diving to avoid shells’, commanding his personal piper to play Highland Laddie as they stepped off the ramp (“ Whenever I hear that song I remember walking through the surf”, Bill Mullin the piper remarked in later years). Yet another was General Hobart, who Churchill had brought out of obscure demotion to design what became known as “ Hobart’s funnies” – decidedly odd-looking but astonishingly innovative & effective new tanks, such as a the Duplex Drive, which looked “like a strange dinghy” but could function on both land & water, & the Crab, which crawled slowly along flogging the ground with chains on either side, thus setting off any mines in its path. (The Americans, perturbed by the appearance of these innovations, widely disdained their use, & suffered higher casualties as a result.) & lest the British claim all the eccentricity for themselves, what about Theodore Roosevelt, son of the former President & distant cousin of the serving one, who insisted on being present despite having suffered a heart attack & walking with a stick, & refused to wear a helmet because he thought they were uncomfortable? But Bastable’s book gives equal weight, equal value, to the experiences of the ordinary, non-decorated soldiers for, as General Bradley is"ed as saying, anyone who was on the beach on D-Day was a hero. From the heartrending words of a young boy’s letter to his mother written on the 5th of June, surely written not knowing if they would be the last she would ever receive from him, to the responses of civilians as they heard the news of the invasion broken to them – in the middle of school lessons, church sermons or on the radio at work in the factories, Tales From the Front Line does honour to the full spectrum of actions & reactions on that stormy day in the summer of 1944. Thanks to what must surely be the most annoying darkroom assistant’s error anywhere, ever, only eight of Robert Capa’s 106 pictures of the invasion (he was in the first wave of American arrivals) survived, & while these remain an extraordinary visual record of the conditions endured by the allied forces on D-Day, in the absence of any other form of documentary footage of the battle, Jonathan Bastable’s book must surely be the closest thing we can have to a collection of first-hand & eye-witness accounts, & thereby command the awed attention of anybody at all with any interest in the events of that day. As Joan Carr-Jones, a Wren in Southampton, whose fiancé returned that evening from his naval duty of transporting troops across the Channel, remarked, “A sense of living with destiny, & a fierce & joyful pride. There never was a day like it.” ...

The Frog in Your Throat original strong lozenges for immediate refreshment, tried & trusted since 1921. Made with natural ingredients by Simpkins, the supplier of glucose products to Hilary & Tenzing`s team on the ascent of Mount Everest, nowadays the company still uses the same recipe & techniques, ensuring the confection continues to be the finest available. ...

Hornsey is a generally prosperous part of north London. The Highgate & Hornsey village sections are mainly Victorian, but much of the rest is well-built late Victorian or Edwardian, which appealed to people who wanted to escape overcrowded central London. They also found that they had marvellous views out over the capital, all the way to the Thames & beyond. ...

Libya & Tunisia at 1:1, 650, 000 & 1: 800, 000 respectively, on a double-sided, indexed road map from ITMB including street plans of Tunis & Tripoli & a glossary of geographical terms. The map displays Libya on one side & Tunisia on the other, each accompanied by its capital city plan & a separate index. Road networks include main paved, secondary & unsurfaced minor roads & tracks, with intermediate distances on major roads. Symbols clearly indicate petrol stations, international & local airports, & railways & ferry routes are also shown. Topography is represented by altitude colouring & graphics indicate deserts, swamps, salt flats, oasis, water wells & seasonal rivers, etc. Numerous spot heights are marked & mountain ranges named, & other geographical features are present. Symbols mark locations of various places of interest including towns with tourist accommodation, campsites, historic ruins & archaeological sites, beaches, ports, etc. The map also shows gas & oil wells & pipelines. International boundaries & border crossing are marked. The map is annotated with historical & tourist information of places of interest & illustrated with colour pictures. It

Includes:: street plans of central Tunis & Tripoli & a glossary of geographical terms used on the map. The map is indexed & all place names are shown transliterated only. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 2°.

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Toxteth in 1906 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided & covers an area of south Liverpool, largely comprising the western half of Toxteth. Coverage of the main map stretches from the docks eastward to Maud Street & Park Hill Road, & from Parliament Street southward to Beresford Road. Features include Coburg Dock, Brunswick Dock, Toxteth Dock, part of Harrington Dock, Overhead Railway with several stations, Brunswick Goods station, South Docks Goods station, Brunswick Docks goods station, engine sheds & many sidings etc, tramways, countless streets of terraced houses, City Hospital, section of Cheshire Lines Railway, public baths, South End Mills, schools & chapels, Royal Southern Hospital, Mersey Brewery & bottling stores, etc. On the reverse is the adjacent sheet 113.06, extending coverage southward to include Herculaneum Dock, Park Hill Hospital, Petroleum Stores & Dingle Bank. A street directory for Caryl Street & Grafton Street is also included. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...