Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic coverage of the Canary Islands at 1:25, 000 published by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional – Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic mapping at this scale: detailed presentation of the road network with rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. The majority of the titles have been published since late 1990s. Map legend is in Spanish only.COVERAGE: each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter, & IV = SE quarter. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

To the long-suffering Burmese people & particularly to the frontier minorities, the Thai border represents a potential escape from poverty & government repression, & a chance for a better life. Despite the natural hospitality of many Thai people & the efforts of individuals & NGOs involved in support programs, the reality of life in the frontier region rarely matches the dream. The author provides first-hand accounts & his own close observations of the personalities he encounters on both sides of the Thai-Burma border as he traverses its length. He introduces the insurgent soldier, the mother, the migrant & the artist, among many other typical inhabitants. In tales of hope & dashed dreams, certainties & ambiguities, conflict, exploitation & coexistence, Humphries paints an informative & empathetic picture of life in the region, of interest to specialists & general readers alike. ...

According to Napoleon, an army marches & fights on its stomach
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In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned into a bloody civil war. Hundreds of thousands died in a bitter conflict which tore the country apart & rapidly turned into the prelude for an even greater conflict yet to com--the Second World War. The siege of Madrid was the key battle of the war. The world watched & waited for the city to surrender as General Franco`s Nationalist army, backed by Hitler & Mussolini, closed in on the Spanish capital. But Madrid did not fall. Madrilenos fought tooth & nail to defend their city. Helped by volunteers from fifty other countries--the International Brigades--they held out against all the odds until the end of the conflict in 1939. Despite its central role in twentieth-century history, the siege of Madrid is an episode largely hidden from today`s visitor. There is no guide to the war sites & few clues for the inquisitive traveller who wants to know more. Frontline Madrid fills that gap. This unique guide book explains what life was like in the city under siege & what happened in the battlefield dramas. The simple to follow maps & diagrams make it easy to visit the frontline sites. The vividly written descriptions bring events & people compellingly to life. The role of prominent individuals, British & American--Orwell, Hemingway, John Cornford
- is explored. Off the beaten track, from the University district in the city centre to the mountains of Guadarrama less than an hour away, the remains of the war in Madrid can still be found--gun emplacements, bunkers, trenches & occasional debris. Frontline Madrid retraces the footsteps of those who lived through the conflict to take the reader on a tour in time. The usual tourist traps are left far behind to enter the gripping world of a war which shaped modern European history.
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Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria & the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border
- a war that has killed as many as 80, 000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with the Kurdistan military wing, but the talks marked a descent into assassinations, suicide bombings & the killing of civilians on both sides. The Kurdish peace process finally collapsed in 2014 with the spill-over of the Syrian Civil War. With ISIS moving through northern Iraq, Turkey has declared war on western allies such as the Kurdish YPG
- the military who rescued the Yezidis & fought with US backing in Kobane. Frontline Turkey shows how the Kurds` relationship with Turkey is at the very heart of the Middle Eastern crisis, & documents, through front-line reporting, how Erdogan`s failure to bring peace is the key to understanding current events in Middle East

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The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia & Ukraine tussle for Crimea & the eastern regions, relations between Putin & the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the story of Russo-Ukrainian relations & traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East & West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. As the first full account of the Ukraine crisis from the Euromaidan Protests to the catastrophe of MH17 & up to the October 2014 parliamentary elections, Frontline Ukraine explains the origins, developments & global significance of the internal & external battle for Ukraine. With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths & misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential & highly-readable account of the struggle for Europe s contested borderlands.” ...

Frosch Cycle Tour, a cycling circuit of 274 kilometres across the landscape of heath & 1000 ponds in the north-eastern Saxony to the chorus of frogs, presented by the Verlag Esterbauer in a guide with maps at 1:50, 000 showing the route & its variants. Extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING
- ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH (please see our sample image) & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German.ABOUT THE BIKELINE SERIES: all the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans. To see the list of other titles in the Bikeline series please click on the series link.





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Frosinone Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

“ Frost on my Moustache” sees Tim Moore inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, as he sets out to prove his physical & spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing Dufferin`s epic voyage to Iceland & Spitzbergen. Dufferin`s battles with icebergs, polar bears & the deep potations of hospitable Norsemen is a tale of derring-do; Moore`s struggle against seasickness, vertigo & over-priced groceries is all too plainly one of derring-don`t. As his bid to emulate the Empire tradition of fearless pluck in the face of adversity crumbles before haughty Icelandic skippers, a convoy of Norwegian Vikings & Spitzbergen`s Soviet ghost towns, he finds himself transferring his affections to Dufferin`s valet Wilson, a man so profoundly gloomy that `he was seen to smile but once, when told that his colleague, the steward, had been almost thrown overboard`. As Moore says, ` Dufferin seems the personification of Kipling`s ` If`. I`m more of a ` But… ` man myself.` ...