Deux-Sèvres & Vienne départments of Poitou-Charentes at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central Poitiers & Niort. Coverage is centred on Poitiers, extending north to Chinon & Cholet. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – coverage shown in the north-eastern corner of the image is not included. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.



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One of the cornerstones of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s fame, Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper, while Ngugi was in prison. It tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be exploited by her boss & later by a corrupt businessman. As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal malaise & that much of the misfortune stems from the Western, capitalist influences on her country. An impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship & for African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa & on post-colonial African literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history & across genres & disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions & notes by distinguished scholars & contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ...

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky & inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction & anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder & incitement to suicide. But when they are forced to test the limits of their doctrine & kill one of their own to secure the secrecy of their mission, the ragtag group breaks up in mutual recrimination. Devils is at once a compelling political statement & a study of atheism & its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky`s most powerful indictment of man`s propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is presented here in Roger Cockrell`s masterful new translation. ...

The instant 1 New York Times bestseller. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon & Donald Trump
- the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, & the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics & reality television to its culmination inside Trump`s penthouse on election night. The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump`s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap & seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who`d never run a campaign & was despised by Democrats & Republicans alike. Yet Bannon`s hard-edged ethno-nationalism & his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump`s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves & spoke to voters whom others couldn`t see. Trump`s campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, & Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world. Any study of Trump`s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devil`s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon & his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump`s extraordinary rise & Clinton`s fall, you have to weave Trump`s story together with Bannon`s, or else it doesn`t make sense.
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All stories in the valley have to begin with the Devil... After the blizzard of 1913, it was weeks before anyone got in or out. By that time, what had happened there, what the Devil had done, was already fable. Devil`s Day is a day for children now, of course. A tradition it`s easy to mock, from the outside. But it`s important to remember why we do what we do. It`s important to know what our grandfathers have passed down to us. Because it`s hard to underst&, if you`re not from the valley, how this place is in your blood. That`s why I came back, with Kat, & not just because the Gaffer was dead. Though that year we may have let the Devil in after all... ...

The former freedom fighter known as ` Tiny` has finally achieved his dream of a peaceful life. But then his beloved son is taken away from him. In that moment, he unleashes himself upon a corrupt South Africa. His victims are those guilty of crimes against children. He goes by the name of Artemis. Benny Griessel, a fading policeman on the brink of losing his job, family & self-respect, is assigned the case. Benny knows that this is his last chance
- both his career & the safety of Cape Town are on the line. But then Benny meets Christine, a young mother working as a prostitute, & something happens that is so terrifying that the world will never be the same again for Benny, for Christine, or for Tiny.
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Flip Lochner is a weary & disillusioned newspaper crime reporter. Curious to find out more about the origins of a casual acquaintance, he descends into Devil`s Valley where, like Dante`s Virgil, he encounters a bewildering array of mysterious characters & events that lead him to reevaluate the world in which he lives & which he thought he knew. Fusing invention & reality, magic realism & earthy humour, Lochner`s adventures in the valley centre around the journey he undertakes to discover the truth about the elusive & erotic figure of Emma, one of Brink`s most remarkable creations. ...

Devizes in 1899 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. SThe map is double-sided to give maximum coverage of Devizes, the suburbs of Dunkirk, Hillworth, St Joseph`s Place, Wick Green & the surrounding area. Both the Great Western Railway Devizes Branch & the Kennet & Avon Canal travel from the west into adjacent outskirts of Devizes. The large stretches of fields & rural landscape in the west, only interupted by the railway, canal locks & various farms, gradually morphs into Devizes in the north-east of the map. Among the streets are St Peter`s Church, St Joseph`s RC Chapel, St John the Baptist`s Church, St Mary`s Church, St James`s Church; other features include Her Majesty`s Prison, Cottage Hospital, Union Workhouse, the market place, & of course, Devizes Castle. The backing map, covering the eastern part of the town,

Includes:: Devizes Green, Southbroom House & the workhouse. Also included is a short history of the town, giving a brief insight from the Norman built castle to the closure of the prison after World War I. Transport historians will be especially interested in the railway & station, long closed, & the canal with its famous flight of locks, 20 of which are shown here. 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.

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Devolli Prefecture at 1:80, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...