Few foreigners have been lucky enough to set foot on Tibetan soil
- Alec Le Sueur spent five extraordinary years there, working
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After the end of the First World War, Gabriel Dan is released from a POW camp in Russia & begins making his way home to Austria. He comes to an industrial town in Pol&, & checks in the ramshackle Hotel Savoy while awaiting financial aid from his family. Here he meets a kaleidoscope of characters, a microcosm of society in which rich & poor, itinerants, dissidents & malcontents live lives of hope, expectancy & despair in an atmosphere pregnant with revolutionary fervour. ...

For Magnus Chase: Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds will whet readers` appetites for The Hammer of Thor. It is a 176-page, smaller format book with black-&-white illustrations throughout. Helgi
- the hotel manager
- created this book for each hotel guest, so that he wouldn`t have to answer so many questions at the front desk. It has short entries about the deities, mythical beings, & fantastic creatures from the nine Norse worlds, & also contains bonus material, including interviews, newspaper articles, short stories & more. The tone is humorous, complementing Rick`s series.

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Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. & he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, Rate Your Lodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels &, horrors, bed & breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people. At first Morse seems exactly what you`d suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit & a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, & the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover `K` & his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion & quiet confession, by one of America`s greatest novelists. ...

Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. & he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, Rate Your Lodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels &, horrors, bed & breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people. At first Morse seems exactly what you`d suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit & a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, & the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover `K` & his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion & quiet confession, by one of America`s greatest novelists. ...

The State of Israel was established in 1948 & Joanne Nihom & Esther Voet have compiled this special travel guide about the Israel of today, nearly 70 years on. They reveal that Israel is a unique country to visit
- it`s hip, hop & trendy! This modern guidebook divides its chapters between: sleeping, eating & drinking; art, music & shopping; fashion & jewellery; miscellaneous; tours & workshops. It

Includes:: three pull-out maps showing the location of hundreds of recommended hot spots.


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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Ardennes Recreational Maps at a scale of 1:25, 000 enable you to discover the Ardennes from junction to junction, each associated with a locality, through a network of hiking, cycling or riding paths. The network of mini walks consists of suggested routes with kilometre distance marked showing field boundaries & urbanised built up areas. Contour markings are at five metre intervals. The map legend is in English, French, Dutch & German. You can scan QR codes on the map for details about the respective locality or upload GPX files of the proposed routes via the provided website. ...