EEL PIE ISLAND is the only inhabited island on the semi-tidal Thames. Its most famous contemporary resident, Trevor Baylis, OBE, inventor of the clockwork radio, has been heard to describe it (with some exaggeration) as 120 drunks clinging to a mudbank. It is a tiny place, just 600 yards long & barely 150 at its widest, but it has nearly fifty houses, some twenty houseboats, two boatyards & a score of small businesses & craft studios, two boating clubs & a nature reserve at each end, & it is connected to the rest of the world by an elegant footbridge. Named for the favoured snack of Henry VIII, who was said to stop here on his way to & from Windsor, the island has enjoyed two periods of special fame: in the nineteenth century it was a resort for Londoners who, like Charles Dickens, came by the newfangled steamboats to spend the day in the grounds of the hotel that dominated the island until 1969; & in the middle of the twentieth it was a venue for jazz & later English R&B groups, where the likes of Chris Barber or George Melly, & then the Rolling Stones or Rod Stewart, performed in the dancehall of the hotel.A surprising number of people all over Britain & beyond remember Eel Pie Island & its gigs
- usually with a nostalgic smile. Dan van der Vat & Michele Whitby tell the story of Eel Pie Island from the Stone Age to The Rolling Stones & beyond, illustrated with a wealth of rare archive images & atmospheric contemporary photography.
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Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane`s ” Effi Briest” is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in ” Penguin Classics”. Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere & ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated & bored, Effi finds comfort & distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her
- with fatal consequences. In taut, ironic prose Fontane depicts a world where sexuality & the will to enjoy life are stifled by vain pretences of civilization, & the obligations of circumstance. Considered to be his greatest novel, this is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife & mother & the instincts of her heart. Hugh Rorrison`s clear, modern translation is accompanied by an introduction by Helen Chambers, which compares Effi with other literary heroines such as Emma Bovary & Anna Karenina. Theodor Fontane (1819-98) was a German novelist & potitical reporter. Along with ” Effi Briest”, Fontane is remembered for ” Frau Jenny Treibel” (1892), an ironic criticism of middle-class hypocrisy & small-mindedness. If you enjoyed ” Effi Briest” you may like Leo Tolstoy`s ” Anna Karenina”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ”I have been haunted by it...as I am by those novels that seem to do more than they say, to induce strong emotions that can`t quite be accounted for”. (Hermione Lee, ” Sunday Times”).
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Eger in a series of street plans of Hungary’s main towns from Cartographia in Budapest. The plans cover the whole town with its outer suburbs &, where appropriate, have an enlargement for the central area. All the plans have a street index. Map legend varies; in plans of larger towns or popular tourist destinations it usually

Includes:: English. Many plans also include additional

Features: insets with plans of larger satellite developments or villages, lists of sights and/or various municipal offices & facilities, etc. Some titles include on the reverse a road map of the town’s environs or the administrative province.* In this title:* English map legend, an enlargement for the city centre at 1:7, 000, a road map of the province, plus street plans of Szarvasko & Felnemet at 1:12, 500.



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North-western Bohemia at 1:200, 000 from Höfer Verlag in a series of road maps of areas which used to be part of Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing both current & the old German place names. In many places former settlements which now no longer exist are also named. Present road & rail networks are supplemented by historical information, e.g. former railway lines. There is no relief detail apart from spot heights. Forests, nature reserves, national park boundaries & locations of interest are marked, & symbols indicate campsites, historical sites, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend

Includes:: English. As the maps have dual place names, the print is rather small, but each title comes with a special magnifying lens attached to the map cover. Also included is a booklet with separate, cross-referenced indexes for each set of names & a street plan of the central part of the area’s main city, showing both old & current street layout. In this title: street plans of central Karlovy Vary/ Karlsbad, Mariánské Lázne/ Marienbad & Cheb/ Eger.

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Map No. 10004, Egersund, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Map No. 10033, Eggedal, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Map No. 844, Eggegebirge – Southern Teutobug Forest
- Oberwälder L&, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive
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Eggenfelden in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Falkenberg, Mitterskirchen, Hebertsfelden, Schönau, Massing, Wurmannsquick. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 1188, Eggiwil, 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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A delightful little gift book containing exciting & creative craft & cookery projects inspired by a cracking egg shape. There are five themes: cooking, making cards, making gifts, decorating & making accessories. Each project uses the egg stencil cut out of the front cover & has bright, attractive step-by-step illustrations including chocolate eggs, spring greetings cards, cress eggs & decorated eggs. There are also egg-themed colour stickers for extra decoration. ...