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Michio Hoshino traveled from his native Japan to Alaska in 1972 for what was intended to be a short two-week visit. He stayed for three months. Having found a deep affinity with the region, he returned to live in Alaska in 1978, undertaking a lifelong career as a naturalist & photographer (his first book was Grizzly, published in 1986 by Chronicle Books.) For his images & his deep commitment to & curiosity about Alaska, he is still widly considered the preeminent photographer of the Alaskan wilderness. This book is a welcome & long overdue collection of his best photographs, as well as a dozen short excerpts from his writing. The book is divided into regional chapters tracing his travels, &

Includes:: a foreword by Lynn Schooler (who wrote the classic book The Blue Bear his friendship with Hoshino & their engagement with the alaskan wilderness), an introduction by Karen Colligan-Taylor (Hoshino's friend & translator), & an afterword by his widow, Naoko Hoshino.

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The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Hossa area at 1:25, 000 on a double-sided map in a series of beautiful & informative maps covering Finland’s most popular outdoor leisure areas with cartography from Karttakeskus, the country’s topographic survey. Maps in this series have excellent use of colours, shading & symbols to provide a very detailed picture of the terrain & vegetation. Extensive overprint highlights routes for hiking, and/or other outdoor pursuits, a wide variety of accommodation, from hotels & holiday villages to Lapland tepees, food & fuel supplies, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude. Map legends include English. ...

On 23 October 2009, British couple Paul & Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles. Their yacht, Lynn Rival, was recovered six days later by naval forces, abandoned off the central Somali coast. After the attack, Paul & Rachel were taken first onto a previously hijacked merchant ship & then to Somalia, where they were held for over a year, enduring threats & intimidation while their captors tried to extort millions of dollars from their family. In this remarkable book, the Chandlers recount their terrifying ordeal, revealing the inspiring & poignant story behind the dramatic headlines. At the heart of their survival was their unshakeable belief in each other & their determination to survive, making Hostage an unlikely love story; for Paul & Rachel, death, at times, seemed preferable to being separated. ...

Hostel Room 131 begins in the winter of 1978, when Siddharth, twenty-three, meets Sudhir, twenty, in a friend's friend's room in Pune's Engineering College Hostel. He falls instantly in love.A man of unconventional views-he believes, for instance, that the two heroes in Sholay have the hots for each other rather than for the heroines-Siddharth becomes a full-time lover over the next seven years & stubbornly pursues the object of his lust & affection, despite his job as a college lecturer in Bombay. There are many obstacles along the way, including Sudhir's family, against whom Siddharth files a police complaint, & Sudhir's classmates from Belgaum, led by the homophobic Ravi Humbe, who start an anti- Siddharth association. But Siddharth gets support from Gaurav & Vivek, a militant gay pair keen to ambush the enemy. Deadpan humour & farce come together in this entertaining love story. ...

The book covers the whole of the USA & the Canadian states of Ontario, Quebec, & British Columbia. Each hostel is described with practical information at the beginning such as the cost, number of rooms, opening hours, & extras. There follows a brief summary/background of each hostel. This is followed by travel information including how to get there by bus & foot. A few of the entries have an accompanying b/w photograph of the hostel. The book is divided into regions with a simple map, showing main surface routes, at the beginning of the section with each hostel indicated by a number on the map. The index at the front of the book is a city listing only, & the index at the back is collection of short lists by the authors along the lines of ' Great value Hostels', ' Best Hostels for Skiers', & ' Strange-but-True Hostels' etc. ...

This is the first guide to Scotland`s mountain fauna, flora & landscape written for hillwalkers. ” Hostile Habitats
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Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed & unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Species explain how different life forms appear all over the globe, evolve over millions of years, become extinct & are supplanted. This is part of Penguin's Great Ideas range, a selection of books that have been picked specifically because they changed the world into which they were written. ...

Map No. 152, Hostynske a Vizovicke vrchy, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart highlighting both signposted cycling routes & other local cycling paths, with route profiles & additional tourist information. Relief is shown by contour lines, spot heights, & subtle hill-shading. The maps show roads, tracks, railways, cable cars, chairlifts, & a range of natural landscape features & landmarks. Coloured symbols depict plenty of additional tourist features e.g. information centres, places of interest, antiquities, shelters, campsites, accommodation, bicycle services etc. An overprint highlights both signposted routes & other recommended routes which have no terrain markers. For all bike routes intermediate distances are shown. Hiking paths are also highlighted. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 5' intervals. Each map is accompanied by a booklet containing general information on the Czech cycle route network, elevation profile diagram for selected routes, plus an index for locations of historical & geographical interest, bicycle service workshops, information centres, & tourist attractions. Map legend & text are in English, German & Czech. ...