As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile`s southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island & spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a photograph of his grandparents embracing a strange automaton that now lives in the Punta Arenas museum. This fearsome metal warrior is a sixteenth-century robot from a proposed mechanical army, commissioned to guard the straight against the English. It was discovered on the island by a grieving woman scouring the archipelago for the bodies of her shipwrecked husband & son, & is now the curious axis around which countless stories spin, surrounded by the terrible yet mesmerizing sea... ...

Patrick O` Brian`s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey & his friend & surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful & dangerous spy
- & a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful & dramatic O` Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty & terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack`s ship, under-manned & out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.
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High quality relief shaded topographic trekking map. Trails are clearly marked with distances between junctions shown in miles. Clear contours at 40ft intervals, vegetation information & symbols to show the location of various features & facilities of use to hikers, such as ranger stations & campsites. To ensure durability the map is printed upon special waterproof plastic paper.

Includes:: latitude & longitude & UTM grid markings

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Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother`s knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, &, hopefully, to find `paradise`, his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to China to Turkey. Along the way he accepts that he may never reach paradise
- but it`s the journey that`s important. At a time when the view of Islam in the West is so often distorted & simplistic, Desperately Seeking Paradise
- self-mocking, frank & passionate
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Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles & despicable data? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you step onto the scorching sands of Desperate Deserts... Shudder! as you're forced to drink camel pee to stay alive. Gasp! as a single sand dune on the move buries whole villages. Scream! when you come face to face with a deadly rattlesnake. Marvel! at the brave desert explorer who trekked to Timbuktu. & if that's not desperate enough for you...find out about the desert where it snows, how to make a tasty pudding from camel milk & why cactus juice could be a deadly drink. Have you got what it takes to survive? It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible! ...

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell`s Winter`s Bone & the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a rough-&-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, & the desire for revenge violently intersect For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His time now up, & believing his debt paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives & breathes all around. On the day of his release, a woman named Maben & her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate & exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a motel room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, & a dead deputy sprawled across the road in the glow of his own headlights. With dawn, destinies collide, & Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save his own or that of the woman & child? ...

Dessau – Flaming on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 130 x 87 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development of the New Building
- otherwise known as the Neues Bauen
- movement. Alongside the Modernist architecture, there is another World Cultural Heritage site which draws in visitors from all over the world to the region, namely the Garden Kingdom of Dessau Worlitz (Gartenreich Dessau-Worlitz). In the shape of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) & the Dessau-Worlitz Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung Dessau Worlitz), two institutions have come together to publish the first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Rosslau & Worlitz, areas most closely linked to the UNESCO World Heritage sites domiciled there. The eighteenth-century Garden Kingdom of Dessau Worlitz & the twentieth-century Bauhaus School of Design (Bauhaus Hochschule fur Gestaltung) have not only bequeathed the city & its surrounds inestimable architectural urban & rural properties & spaces, but also an associated intellectual heritage which has made a lasting impact on the world &, last but not least, accounts for the attraction the area holds for tourists. These & other notable historic & contemporary buildings alike are presented in this architectural guide which also raises issues about the nuanced handling of this architectural & cultural legacy & of future planning.

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The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1, 000 of today`s most must-see contemporary buildings
- whether
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This is a comprehensive critical guide to land & environmental works, sculpture parks & site-specific installations worldwide. It is a highly accessible read, boasting stunning photography & designed to be practical & informative too. Fifty key destinations featured in substantial essays, & a further 150 sites given concise descriptions. It is set to become the standard reference work on a subject whose significance & appeal attracts wide audiences. ...