Deep South: Mississippi to Florida Zoom Map from Michelin at 1:1, 267, 200 (1” to 20 miles), with highlighting of All-American Roads & National Byways, Michelin’s selections of best sights & scenic routes, plus enlargements of the Orlando area, Greater Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham AL, & Memphis. Coverage extends to the western border of Louisiana, & north to include southern Tennessee with Memphis & Nashville, the Great Smoky Mountains, & the southern part of North Carolina with Charlotte. Each map in the Michelin Zoom series of USA covers a large area, presenting its topography by unobtrusive background shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, valley, deserts, etc. Peak heights are given in feet. Colouring highlights national/state forests & other protected areas, Indian lands, & restricted entry military zones. Road network clearly distinguishes between free & toll routes & indicates toll barriers, interchange numbers, services, rest areas & Travel Centers. Road numbers are clearly marked on all types of roads & driving distances, in miles, are shown on interstate, main state & selected provincial routes. The maps show state borders & the time zone boundaries. Symbols indicate campsites, sights recommended in Michelin’s Green Guides & other places of interest. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 1º intervals. The index, arranged by state, is next to the map & also provided is a separate list of sights from the Green Guides annotated with their star ratings. Each map also contains street plans of main cities highlighting places of interest, a month-by-month list of events & celebrations, contact details for national parks, plus a distance table in both miles & kilometres. ...

Deep South at 1:1, 000, 000 in a series of indexed touring road maps of USA from Hallwag, with each title conveniently covering a large region & providing enlargements of most visited areas, city maps & other useful tourist information. Enlargements cover Memphis TN, Nashville, Birmingham AL, Atlanta, New Orleans, & Houston. The map is part of Hallwag’s series covering USA at 1:1, 000, 000. The series has been revised from its earlier version & now uses cartography from Hema which provides an excellent combination of information about the terrain, the road network & places of interest. The base map has effective but unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks (heights in feet), deserts, etc. Colouring prominently highlights national or state parks, forests & other protected areas, as well as Indian Reservations & military zones. Road network clearly shows road numbers, indicates free & toll highways with locations of services, & gives driving distances on interstate & primary routes. The maps also show Amtrak railway lines with stations, local airports, state borders & time zone boundaries. An extensive range of symbols indicate various places of tourist interest. Each map is indexed & for GPS navigation has latitude & longitude lines drawn at 30’ intervals. Each title also

Includes:: enlargements of most visited areas – please see individual descriptions for more information – & useful tourist information such as metric conversion tables, traffic signs, phone numbers/websites for many organizations including recommended accommodations, etc. Map legends & all the text include English.

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For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth; to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, & has brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama & Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers
- the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi
- & above all, the lives of the people he meets. The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows & the close-knit, subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend & run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.

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From its roots in Cajun & Creole to the barbecue & smoking techniques of rural communities, Deep South showcases southern cooking as a cuisine that deserves to be heralded alongside that of Italy, France & Japan. Chef Brad Mc Donald runs the Lockhart & Shotgun restaurants in London & is the foremost authority on the food of his homel&, Mississippi. Brad`s food is modern, seasonal American cooking. Contemporary & innovative, with classics including Jambalaya, Cornbread with Honey Butter, Tomato Pie, Pimiento Cheese, & Lemon Icebox Pie, this is comfort food given an urban edge
- a neat spin on soul food classics. Brad`s recipes cover southern US staples done properly, showing off American food`s culinary heritage. & with insights into the meaning of ` Southernness`, the importance of community & hospitality, Southern parties & the effect of the hot climate on the dishes of the region, Deep South provides a glimpse into a unique way of life
- & a new take on a style of cooking that has been so influential & yet remained relatively unchanged for generations.

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In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science & powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life`s great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art & science of survival, will change the way you see your world. ...

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot & sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers descend without breathing equipment, for hundreds of feet below the water, for minutes after they should have died from lack of oxygen. Sometimes they emerge unconscious, or bleeding from the nose & ears, & sometimes they don`t come up at all. The free divers were Nestor`s way into an exhilarating & dangerous world of deep-sea pioneers, underwater athletes, scientists, spear fishermen, billionaires & ordinary men & women who are poised on the brink of some amazing discoveries about the ocean. Soon he was visiting the scientists who live 60ft underwater (and are permanently high on nitrous dioxide), swimming with the notorious man-eating sharks of Reunion & descending thousands of feet in a homemade submarine. And on the way down, he learnt about the amazing amphibious reflexes activated in the human body under deep-water conditions, why dolphins were injected with LSD in an attempt to teach them to talk, & why sharks like AC/DC. The sea covers seventy per cent of Earth`s surface, & still contains answers to questions about the world we are only beginning to ask: Deep blends science & adventure to uncover its amazing secrets. ...

This intriguing odyssey, set on the edges of time, encompasses biography, memoir, detective story, travelogue & history to tell a remarkable tale of East-West connections & a mysterious love. The author`s quest begins when the word `indigo` draws her to the illustrated journals, now in the British Library, of Victorian traveller Thomas Machell. She finds her life to have striking echoes of his, not least travels to & within India, a career in indigo, & a passion for journal writing. She is also intrigued by his aspiration to write `a novel in the form of an autobiography` & by his quirky watercolour sketches. Retracing his footsteps
- overland & by sea
- from his ancestral home in the hills & dales of northern England to remote parts of the Middle East & Asia, she is often in her own footsteps too. Machell of Crackenthorpe, born in 1824, first demonstrated his yearning for adventure when only twelve, & at sixteen left the family rectory to fulfil his childhood dream of travelling to the East. By chance, he witnessed many important historical events, including the infamous First Opium War & the Indian Mutiny that profoundly affected British-Indian relationships. Machell spent most of his adult life in India, `the land of my destiny` as he calls it; the author tracks him to the indigo & coffee plantations of rural Bengal & Kerala`s Malabar Hills, to little known regions of central India; to the China Seas & remote islands of Polynesia & through the deserts of Arabia. This spellbinding book brings to life Machell`s untold story, that of a spirited outsider at the time of the British Raj reaching into the future. Serendipity, intuition & an enchanting relationship, as well as the author`s quest to uncover the missing years of Machell`s life, give this book its magical extra dimension.

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Jenny set out on her own voyage, tracing his footsteps across oceans & continents for ten years, on a quest to discover & understand this extraordinary character. In 2010 she travelled alone to India on the last cargo ship to accept passengers. The journey was as treacherous as it had been in Thomas`s day & Jenny was advised to hide below deck & sleep with a knife by her bed & dollars sewn into her jacket. She narrowly escaped attack as naval ships intercepted a pirate `mothership` spotted off the Yemeni coast. Jenny`s journey ends as she finally discovers Thomas`s overgrown grave when travelling with herdaughter after over 15 years of searching. Through a combination of the author`s own memoirs, sketches & recollections of travels, entwined with Thomas Machell`s tales & intricate drawings, Deeper than Indigo offers a unique insight into the social history of British colonialism at its height, from the East India Company to the Raj, while telling the story of a forgotten pioneer, whose startling diaries shed a surprisingly progressive light on European colonialism. ...

At the beginning of the 1980s Neil Ansell chose a life of voluntary poverty working for the Simon Community, a charity with radical approaches to helping homeless people. He lived in squats & `derries` across London, becoming part of a floating community of volunteers & rough sleepers whose purpose was to offer companionship & support for each other. But around them Britain was changing. It was becoming the decade of the individual. Soon there would be `no such thing` as society. More & more young people started arriving in the Community, set adrift by unemployment, & the city streets & squats were becoming awash with heroin. Immersed in this fragile world, Neil`s sense of self began to disintegrate against the hard truths of homelessness. Worst of all were the people he lost, the friends who died or disappeared. To escape he started taking occasional trips to the Isle of Jura, off the west coast of Scotl&, to seek solace & isolation in the landscape. Along the way he hoped to find his way back to himself. In spare & beautiful prose Neil Ansell overlaps two contrasting journeys through the streets of London & the wilds of Jura, building a powerful & moving meditation on what it means to belong. What makes us feel attached to a place or a community? What do we mean when we call a place home? Are memories the only things we can ever truly own? ...

The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper`s ` Leather-Stocking` novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slaying young frontiersman) & the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portrays the hubris of the conquest of a vast territory. The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty & his friend Harry attempt to save a trapper & two young women, whose floating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois. The tension steadily increases to the point at which a cruel outcome seems inevitable. The exciting action, the romantic potentialities & the knowledgeable evocation of frontier life (with its moral & racial conflicts) have made this novel a perennial favourite. The courageous Natty, with his problematic values, has set the precedent for countless American heroes. Culturally, The Deerslayer has proved to be a powerfully influential work. ...