The Stanford's Library Map of London & its Suburbs was originally a 24-sheet set of maps covering Victorian London during a period of rapid expansion & improvement. Here the map is presented on CD ROM. Unlike the b/w paper version, in this case the map is a hand coloured version, retaining the original detail, naming streets & marking major buildings. Also an index of over 18, 000 streets & locations is included, with a commentary by Ralph Hyde
- former Keeper of Prints & Maps at the Guildhall Library in the City of London. The map coverage extend out to Highgate, Greenwich, Streatham & Hammersmith. Original scale: 6 to 1 mile.PC Version
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Choose your mode of transport & set off on an adventure that will take you all the way across space! Can you navigate huge roundabouts with sleeping Aliens, or cross planets guarded by scary space creatures? Negotiate pesky road obstructions by solving the maths problems correctly. Pick up hidden objects, collect bonus points, & use your mapping skills to zoom backwards & forwards through the book. Incredibly busy & colourful artwork will delight young children, & once they reach their objective, readers can absorb themselves in all sorts of bonus maths activities. ...

Choose your mode of transport & set off on an adventure that will take you all the way across the city. Can you navigate huge roundabouts with sleeping sea dragons, or cross bridges guarded by gorillas? Negotiate pesky road obstructions by solving the maths problems correctly. Pick up hidden objects, collect bonus points, & use your mapping skills to zoom backwards & forwards through the book. Incredibly busy & colourful artwork will delight young children, & once they reach their objective, readers can absorb themselves in all sorts of bonus maths activities. ...

A riveting crime thriller about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes too far, featuring the same trio of unlikely & winning heroes King introduced in MR MERCEDES. 1978: Morris Bellamy is a reader so obsessed by America`s iconic author John Rothstein that he is prepared to kill for a trove of notebooks containing at least one more unpublished novel. 2009: Pete Saubers, a boy whose father was brutally injured by a stolen Mercedes, discovers a buried trunk containing cash & Rothstein`s notebooks. 2014: After thirty-five years in prison, Morris is up for parole. & he`s hell-bent on recovering his treasure. Now it`s up to retired detective Bill Hodges
- running an investigative company called ` Finders Keepers`
- to rescue Pete from an ever-more deranged & vengeful Morris... Not since Misery has King written with such visceral power about a reader with such a dangerous obsession. Finders Keepers is spectacular suspense, & it is King writing about how literature shapes a life for good, for bad, for ever.

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Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at 41, is nesting in the home she & her husband Joseph have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unknown to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter Juniper is home from college for Thanksgiving & in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister Casey disappeared-in a time before she`d ever met Glory & Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she`d finally buried. A love story, a family story, a story of searching & the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament to human resilience. ...

The expedition triggered the global rainforest movement & highlighted, for the first time, how rich, diverse & ecologically important rainforests are. But since then, Borneo has gone from being a garden of Eden to a dry monocultural desert, where the traditional way of life of the indigenous people of the rainforests is being slowly eroded. Here, Hanbury-Tenison describes the months he spent in Borneo, using his original diaries & photographs. This is the story of complete immersion in a tribal way of life that is on the cusp of extinction. At its heart is the relationship between Hanbury-Tenison & Nyapun
- a member of the Penan tribe who would become a lifelong friend & inspiration.
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It is easy to find England on a map
- it is part of that conspicuous thing in the North Sea, just off the French coast. It gets
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In one of the most brilliant & intrepid memoirs in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent travelling through Burma, using as a compass the life & work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma`s underground teahouse intellectuals call simply ”the prophet”. In stirring, insightful prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world`s least free countries. Finding George Orwell in Burma is a brave & revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, one of the world`s grimmest & most shuttered dictatorships, where the term ” Orwellian” aptly describes the life endured by the country`s people. This book has come to be regarded as a classic of reportage & travel & a crucial book for anyone interested in Burma & George Orwell. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLERLike A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the Gobi Desert. The lovable pup, who earned the name ` Gobi`, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the treacherous Tian Shan Mountains, managing to keep pace with him for nearly 80 miles. As Dion witnessed the incredible determination of this small animal, he felt something change within himself. In the past he had always focused on winning & being the best, but his goal now was simply to make sure that his new friend was safe, nourished & hydrated. Although Dion did not finish first, he felt he had won something far greater & promised to bring Gobi back to the UK for good to become a new addition to his family. This was the start of a journey neither of them would ever forget with a roller coaster ride of drama, grief, heartbreak, joy & love that changed their lives forever. Finding Gobi is the ultimate story of hope, of resilience & of friendship, proving once again, that dogs really are `man`s best friend.` ...

Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the Gobi Desert. The lovable pup, who earned the name ` Gobi`, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the treacherous Tian Shan Mountains, managing to keep pace with him for nearly 80 miles. As Dion witnessed the incredible determination of this small animal, he felt something change within himself. In the past he had always focused on winning & being the best, but his goal now was simply to make sure that his new friend was safe, nourished & hydrated. Although Dion did not finish first, he felt he had won something far greater & promised to bring Gobi back to the UK for good to become a new addition to his family. This was the start of a journey neither of them would ever forget with a roller coaster ride of drama, grief, heartbreak, joy & love that changed their lives forever. Finding Gobi is the ultimate story of hope, of resilience & of friendship, proving once again, that dogs really are `man`s best friend.` ...