This guidebook of selected climbs from the Swiss Alpine Club describes the most attractive 4c to 6b+ multi-pitch routes of Furka, Grimsel, Susten & Nufenen in the heart of the Swiss Alps. The routes are illustrated with many photos & detailed topographical sketches. This is a great opportunity to discover a beautiful corner of Switzerl&. The route introductions & descriptions are in English, French & German. ...

Set during the 1980s civil war in Lebanon, Dreams of Water is complusively readable, deceptively simple & overwhelmingly moving. ` If you could tell me just one thing about yourself, what would it be?` She begins, `I would say that I once lost a brother.` As a young man disappears, his family is left wondering, hoping, fearing for what may have become of him. It is only through his loss that they begin to truly understand the deep bond of love that ties their family together. Aneesa, his sister, feels the loss of her brother intensely &, unable to live in the vacuum left by his disappearance, she leaves her home & all she holds dear. She moves to London seeking a new life, new friends, & a release from her sorrow. There she meets an older man, another exile who reminds her of home. Brought together by their shared feeling for their homel&, they form an unlikely friendship. Yet, Aneesa finds she cannot mourn without knowing the truth about her brother`s death, she cannot get on with her life without some certainty. Meanwhile, back home, Aneesa`s mother is grieving for her son. Unable to cope with his loss, she resorts to her community`s traditional beliefs & imagines he has been reincarnated. Aneesa reluctantly returns home, determined to uncover the truth behind her brother`s disappearance, & rekindle the sense of belonging that she left behind. ` Dreams of Water` is a moving story of love, loss & family. Set against a backdrop of upheaval & violence, it reminds us of the importance of hope, of love, & of the strength of family. ...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, & awakens the hidden meanings behind our most typical & surprising night-time fantasies. From dreams of violence & death, to the more prosaic moments in our dream-life, Freud shines a light on the darkness we are often happy left consigned to night. Selected from the books The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis & The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of the Sigmund Freud, Volume IV: The Interpretation of Dreams (First Part) by Sigmund Freud ...

Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of `model` villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries. A life-long fascination was born. From Scotland`s New Lanark Mills to the Arts & Crafts cottages of Port Sunlight, Yallop visits these utopian experiments to explore their rich histories. Looking at everything from sewage systems to sculpture, chocolate to coal, & free trade to electoral emancipation, this book is a personal exploration of why & how these village utopias came about, what they tell us about the past, & how they still resonate with us today. ...

Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop began her working life leading guided walks at a small village high in the fells of the North Pennines. Built by philanthropic employers for families working the lead mines, the isolated settlement was one of a network of `model` villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries. In Dreamstreets, Yallop visits, & re-visits, some of these utopian experiments to explore their rich histories & to understand the social, political & cultural contexts from which they emerged. From Scotland`s New Lanark mills to the imposing market square at Tremadog in Wales & the Arts & Crafts cottages of Port Sunlight, she walks the avenues & terraces to examine what remains of the impulses & ideals which made these villages so fashionable. Mixing social & political history, art & architecture, travelogue, biography, aesthetics & philosophy with memoir & on-the-ground observation, Dreamstreets draws on Yallop`s experience as a novelist, bringing her scholarly research to life in an energetic account of the complex & contradictory factors which changed the British landscape. Looking at everything from sewage systems to sculpture, chocolate to coal, & free trade to electoral emancipation, this book is a personal exploration of why & how these village utopias came about, what they tell us about the past, & how they still resonate with us today. ...

Map No. 1136, Drei Schwestern, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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This handy ANWB map full of great cycling routes, spread across the province & neighboring regions. Each guide contains 14 separate routes, printed on a card in A4 format. The route map contains clear route descriptions, sights, current cycling junctions long-distance routes, street names & all ANWB Hospitable Points. There is also a sheet with ANWB Node Cards & a brochure with the user manual & tips for each route map. With a scale of 1: 100, 000 (1 cm = 1 km) the cards are very readable. The ANWB Fietsgids is available in a series of 11 parts, in which all provinces are described in detail. ...

Central Drenthe area of the Netherlands in a series of walking & cycling maps at 1:25, 000 – 1:35, 000, published by Falk BV in cooperation with Staatsbosbeheer – Dutch government’s organization for forestry & the management of nature reserves. Colouring indicates different types of vegetation or terrain: woodl&, pastures, heath or sand dunes. Given the topography of most of the country, the maps have no contour lines. The maps show local hiking trails, indicating their waymarking & include cycle paths & horse riding. Many local crossroads are annotated with the numbers of ANWB signposts & ‘mushrooms’ – a useful aid when navigating in Dutch countryside. Symbols indicate various tourist facilities & places of interest, including different types of accommodation, cafes, windmills, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in Dutch only. On the reverse each title has supplementary information, in Dutch only, about the region`s attractions. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The eastern part of the Drenthe Province in the Netherlands at 1:50, 000 in a series from Falk B.V. showing the network of signposted cycling routes on large, double-sided indexed maps with prominent highlighting of long-distance LF routes, symbols indicating accommodation & other tourist services, plus in each title two or more panels with recommended local circuits & additional tourist information. The Falk 50K cycling series, which

Includes:: some adjoining areas in Lower Saxony & has now been extended to cover Flanders, shows the extensive network of sign-posted cycling routes. The network consists of numbered junctions joined by sign-posted connecting routes in either direction. At each junction there is an information panel showing an overview map of the whole network with the junction numbers. A second panel shows all the intersections directly connected to that junction. The system enables cyclists to plan their own routes by preparing a list of junction numbers through which they want to travel. Falk maps give cycling distances between the junctions & indicate which roads, both within the numbered network & outside it, have separate cycling paths. Routes which are part of the LF network of long-distance cycle routes are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols shows various accommodation options, bars & restaurants, & various places of interest. Landscape information is provided by colouring for woodlands, dunes, etc. The maps are indexed & show in the margins latitude & longitude at 1`52” intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English.PLEASE NOTE: to see other titles in the Falk series please click on the series link, where the series description

Includes:: a comparison between the Falk maps & the ANWB cycling series also covering the Netherlands at 1:50, 000.





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South-Eastern Drenthe area of the Netherlands in a series of walking & cycling maps at 1:25, 000 – 1:35, 000, published by Falk BV in cooperation with Staatsbosbeheer – Dutch government’s organization for forestry & the management of nature reserves. Colouring indicates different types of vegetation or terrain: woodl&, pastures, heath or sand dunes. Given the topography of most of the country, the maps have no contour lines. The maps show local hiking trails, indicating their waymarking & include cycle paths & horse riding. Many local crossroads are annotated with the numbers of ANWB signposts & ‘mushrooms’ – a useful aid when navigating in Dutch countryside. Symbols indicate various tourist facilities & places of interest, including different types of accommodation, cafes, windmills, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in Dutch only. On the reverse each title has supplementary information, in Dutch only, about the region`s attractions. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...