Landscapes of beauty...in a world that time seems to have passed by. Step away from the city's hustle & bustle & into the country, where old castles & abbeys st&, where small villages maintain their charm, where the spirit of long ago still burns bright, unextinguished by the modern age. Striking photographs bring forth all the magic & romance of rural areas throughout Britain & France -- the highlands & islands; the gardens with fountains, topiary, cottage flowers, & fragrant herbs; the canals & country railways; the small pubs where one can still quaff a pint among friends. What wonderful places to be. ...

The first comprehensive guide to the white water rivers, playspots & artificial white water courses of Engl&. Here you will find descriptions of both well known classics & little known gems. It covers the length & breadth of England & provides something for everyone, whatever the conditions. Whether you are a white water novice or an out-&-out hair boater, you need this book. Produced in the same format as the acclaimed Scottish White Water guide & illustrated with maps, symbols & photos, this guide is an essential tool for canoeists & kayakers. ...

The first comprehensive guide to the white water rivers, playspots & artificial white water courses of Engl&. Here you will find descriptions of both well known classics & little known gems. It covers the length & breadth of England & provides something for everyone, whatever the conditions. Whether you are a white water novice or an out-&-out hair boater, you need this book. Produced in the same format as the acclaimed Scottish White Water guide & illustrated with maps, symbols & photos, this guide is an essential tool for canoeists & kayakers. ...

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale & Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job, which takes him to Madna
- a town with the highest temperatures in India
- deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents & cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, & crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be much easier than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India.

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The Collins Malay Gem Dictionary offers learners extensive & up-to-date coverage of Malay & English in a compact, portable format. This Malay (Bahasa Malaysia) dictionary is designed for all levels of language learner, whether at home, at school, or at work. It is the ideal text for anyone who needs a wealth of reliable information in a portable format. The Collins Malay Gem Dictionary contains all the everyday words & phrases used in today's Malay & English that you will need to know, with frequency indicators on the English side flagging up the most important words to learn in English. An easy-to-use & reliable dictionary. The clear layout ensures that you can quickly find the information you need. ...

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite
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In this original study, Ian Ousby investigates the landmarks chosen by the English for their leisure travel over centuries. He looks in particular at four types of attraction still prominent on the tourist map of England: literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins & the natural landscape. All of these first became objects of fashionable attention during the 18th century, when improvements in transport combined with a spirit of practical inquiry to breed the first generation of travellers who called themselves tourists. Drawing on a wide range of sources
- journals, travel books & guidebooks, novels & poems, as well as many engravings
- Ian Ousby traces the canons of taste which led the early tourists to seek out places like Stratford-upon-Avon, Chatsworth, Tintern Abbey & the Lake District, & records the stages by which these places acquired the trappings of the tourist attraction. Above all, he shows the development not just of an industry but of a state of mind marked, from its earliest phase, by the underlying fear that tourism is fated to spoil or even destroy the very thing it most admires.

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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Enid Blyton`s books are beloved the world over & The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian & Timmy are keen to show Aunt Fanny how much she means to them. Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne & Timmy the dog as they try to celebrate Mother`s Day with Aunt Fanny. George has past form in forgetting
- not least her mum`s birthday & Christmas presents
- so tensions are running high even for the charged normality of their mother/daughter bond. But things go from bad to worse when Fanny comes to stay, with relations strained almost to breaking point. Can the Five save the day, & will Uncle Quentin get involved?

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Three exciting stories with all the magic, fun & adventure we`ve come to expect from the world`s best-loved children`s author, Enid Blyton. Meet the elephants, monkeys & clowns & step into the ring of the most famous circus of them all! A fantastic bumper volume of classic children`s stories including Mr Galliano`s Circus, Circus Days Again, & Come to the Circus. The Circus stories are one of Blyton`s best loved works, featuring the adventures of Mr Galliano`s famous travelling circus. Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children`s author of all time, thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree-, The Mysteries, The Famous Five & The Secret Seven. The Circus stories make the perfect bedtime stories for imaginative children looking for excitement & adventure. ...