For generations of adventurers, from Mallory to Hilary, Norgay to Krakauer, Mount Everest & the world`s greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But as the public`s fascination with mountaineering reaches an all-time high, the question remains
- why climb? In High Exposure, legendary rock climber. mountaineer & film-maker, David Breashears, answers with a captivating & intimate look at his life.
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The High Fens (Vennbahn) Cycle Route, a 230-km long cycle trail from Aachen across the Hoge Venen / Hautes Fagnes Natural Park in eastern Belgium & Luxembourg to Luxembourg City, presented by the Verlag Esterbauer in 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. The High Fens (Vennbahn) Cycle Route was awarded in 2013 the ” European Greenways Award” & in 2014 at the ” Fiets en Wandelbeurs” exhibition in Amsterdam received the Audience Award as ” Bike Route of 2014”.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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This is Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller & instantly recognized by critics & readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, & men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop & has strong views on what's decent & what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough. ...

High Green & Thorncliffe in 1903 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map is double-sided. The main map covers the village of High Green, a few miles north of Sheffield in Ecclesfield parish. Features in High Green include Angram Bank Farm, High Green House, & the outlying hamlets of Mortomley, Thompson Hill, Near Potter Hill & Far Potter Hill. The map extends north-west to Hurst Green & south to Charltonbrook. Features at Mortomley include St Saviour`s church & Mortomley Hall. Near the eastern edge of the map is Thorncliffe Iron Works & numerous old ironstone pits are marked. On the reverse is part of the adjacent sheet 282.16 extending coverage east to include Thorncliffe Colliery, Warren, Lane End, Chapeltown Iron Works & part of Chapeltown with St John`s church. A section of the MR Thorncliffe High Level Ironstone Branch is included, also the Chapeltown Branch Extension through Tankersley Tunnel, plus the GCR Woodbourn Junction to Aldham Junction line with Chapeltown station. Coverage extends east to the hamlet of White Lane. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

High Heaton in 1894 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the area to the west of Jesmond as far as City Hospital & the NER railway line. To the north it

Includes:: Bank Head & extends south to Heaton Town Farm. Features show Benton Hall, Benton Park, Byker & Heaton Cemetery, Newton Road Quarry, Benton Bridge, County Cricket Ground & Jesmond Park. On the reverse is an extract from a street directory for the area. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Pyrénées Ouest map from the IGN at 1:200, 000, with excellent presentation of the terrain through contours & vivid relief shading, plenty of names of topographic features, long-distance GR hiking routes, places of interest, etc. The map is designed to provide convenient coverage of the western & central part of the Pyrenees, extending across the highest part of the mountains to St-Girons. The overprint highlights both the GR10 & the GR 11 on the Spanish side. The mapping is a hybrid from two of IGN’s series. Road information & the highlighting for picturesque towns or villages & other places of interest is a direct enlargement of the publishers’ Regional series at 1:250, 000. Presentation of the topography follows that in IGN’s highly popular TOP100 series to provide a better picture each region’s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 100m intervals, enhanced by vivid relief shading & spot heights, plus plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, etc. An overprint highlights GR routes & connecting other trails. The maps have no geographical coordinates. The index is next to the map. Map legend

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A guide specifically to ski mountaineering in the Mont Blanc Range & Pennine Alps, covering the High Level Route through Chamonix, Zermatt & Saas Fee.

Includes:: photographs & diagrams with ski routes overlaid. This title

Includes:: a concise summer route supplement. Raised relief map of Mont Blanc: Institute G



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“ High Light” is another photographic look at the Highlands from Colin Prior. Shooting at the magic hours of dusk & dawn, here he catches those rare moments when composition, fine light & colour combine to create a remarkable image. Each photograph captures fleeting moments of nature which will never repeat; the images themselves verge on obsession – Prior camped out on the remotest peaks in Scotland to obtain them. This collection documents the dynamic nature of the Highlands landscape & wildlife. In a world where the environment is increasingly being damaged, Prior argues, we should regain touch with what’s left of the natural landscape rather than rely solely on superimposed solutions. A key reason why the natural environment is now in peril is precisely because of failures to understand its dynamic, in-flux nature. The book combines breathtaking new examples of Prior’s trademark panoramas – which continually appeal to the tourist/travel market
- with a range of new medium-format images that push the boundaries of digital photography.
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How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand & beloved open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated rail structure on Manhattan`s West Side, is among the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. The story of how it came to be is a remarkable one: two young citizens with no prior experience in planning & development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, & leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture & landscape architecture to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space. Joshua David & Robert Hammond met in 1999 at a community board meeting to consider the fate of the High Line. Built in the 1930s, it carried freight trains to the West Side when the area was defined by factories & warehouses. But when trains were replaced by truck transport, the High Line became obsolete. By century`s end it was a rusty, forbidding ruin. Plants grew between the tracks, giving it a wild & striking beauty. David & Hammond loved the ruin & saw in it an opportunity to create a new way to experience their city. Over ten years, they did so. In this candid & inspiring book lavishly illustrated they tell how they relied on skill, luck, & good timing: a crucial court ruling, an inspiring design contest, the enthusiasm of Mayor Bloomberg, the concern for urban planning issues following 9/11. Now the High Line a half-mile expanse of plants, paths, staircases, & framed vistas runs through a transformed West Side & reminds us that extraordinary things are possible when creative people work together for the common good.” ...

Simon Heffer`s new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age & the Victorian mind. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest & uncertainty, where there were attempts to assassinate the Queen & her prime minister, & the ruling class lived in fear of riot & revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress & prosperity, transformed not just by industrialisation but by new attitudes to politics, education, women & the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic & high-minded group of people
- politicians & philanthropists, writers & thinkers
- who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions & its mindset, & laid the foundations for modern society. It traces the evolution of British democracy & shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the lot of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives & prospects. It analyses the birth of new attitudes to education, religion & science. And it shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture were swept in to broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives & deeds of major politicians, from the devout & principled Gladstone to the unscrupulous Disraeli; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers & thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, & Samuel Butler; & at the `great projects` of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced insight into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people
- & how our forebears` pursuit of perfection gave birth to modern Britain.


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