Hungary’s best hiking & recreational areas on a series of contoured maps from the Budapest based Cartographia, with hiking routes & other tourist information, including in many titles street plans, cycling trails, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals with relief shading & spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics to indicate different types of vegetation. An overprint highlights local hiking paths, with cycling routes also included is some titles. Symbols mark various places of interest, sport & recreational facilities, including campsites & other tourist accommodation, locations of petrol stations, etc. The maps show 1km lines of the country’s national grid. Map legends are in Hungarian & German only. On the reverse many titles include street plans of holiday centres & further information on the area, in Hungarian only. ...

Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, & work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway`s capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer`s behaviour becomes increasingly irrational & his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun`s first novel & earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing & darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated & influenced some of the twentieth century`s most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka & Fante. ...

Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home & identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power & mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein & her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music & pop culture in the 1990s. They would be cited as ” America`s best rock band” by legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant brand of punk that resisted labels & limitations, & redefined notions of gender in rock. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is an intimate & revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, & rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement & contradictions within the era`s flourishing & fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later. With deft, lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable on the page as on the stage. Accessibly raw, honest & heartfelt, this book captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer & an outsider, & ultimately finding one`s true calling through hard work, courage & the intoxicating power of rock & roll. ...

We`ve all been there. One minute you`re fast asleep, & in the next you`re tumbling from dreams of deserts & demons, into semi-consciousness, mouth full of s&, head throbbing. You`re hungover. Courageous journalist Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall has gone to the front lines of humanity`s age-old fight against hangovers to settle once & for all the best way to get rid of the aftereffects of a night of indulgence (short of not drinking in the first place). Hangovers have plagued human beings for about as long as civilization has existed (and arguably longer), so there has been plenty of time for cures to be concocted. But even in 2018, little is actually known about hangovers, & less still about how to cure them. Cutting through the rumour & the myth, Hungover explores everything from polar bear swims, to saline IV drips, to the age-old hair of the dog, to let us all know which ones actually work. & along the way, Bishop-Stall regales readers with stories from humanity`s long & fraught relationship with booze, & shares the advice of everyone from Kingsley Amis to a man in a pub. ...

` Nick went head down, finning desperately to catch the swirling body which tumbled like a leaf in high wind. He had a fleeting glimpse of Baker`s face, contorted with terror & lack of breath, the glass visor of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted through the non-return valve. The Chief`s headset microphone squealed once & then went dead as the water shorted it out.` Robbed of his wife & ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival`s luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time & the elements.. . ...

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. ...

Hunmanby in 1926 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. Features on the map include the railway with station, brick works, town centre, Hunmanby Hall, Parkhouse Farm, All Saints church, Bridlington Street, Ratten Row, Stonegate, Northgate, Cross Hill, Hungate Lane, Low Hall, Harbour Hill, etc. A directory of Hunmanby in 1905 is on the reverse. 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. ...

Hunslet in 1905 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 Hunslet area of south Leeds. Coverage stretches from Lady Pit Lane eastward to Frog Hall Farm & Wakefield Road, & from Jack Lane & Hillidge Road southward to Hunslet Cemetery. Features include the Midland Railway running through the map, with station, sidings, connecting mineral lines; a stretch of the GNR Hunslet Branch; Leeds Steel Works, a major presence near the centre of the map; Hunslet Carr, with glass works & tannery; Woodhouse Hill; Stourton; Thwaite Gate, with Hunslet Forge; central Hunslet, incl St Mary`s church, Hunslet Chemical Works, Hunslet Paper Mills & Old Mills, Crown Bottle Works, malthouses, tramways, etc. To the west, across Hunslet Moor, is the Dewsbury Road area of Hunslet. Extracts from street directories are on the reverse, including Balm Road, Church Street, Garnet Avenue/ Grove/ Place/ Road/ Terrace, Joseph Street & Low Road. 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. ...

Hunt for the Southern Continent offers a view into the second journey of Captain James Cook. On the second of his three great voyages, Cook took on the most frightening of all his challenges
- to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent
- but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for. About this series: Penguin's Great Journeys series presents extracts from some of the most important classic travelogues in a compact paperback format. The series allows readers to travel both around the planet & back through the centuries
- but also back into ideas & worlds frightening, ruthless & cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent & implacable jungles, deserts & mountains, multitudes of birds & flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends & stories were treated as facts & in which so much was still to be discovered.


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This is a study of the true story behind The English Patient, one of the least known & most extraordinary episodes of World War II. In the 1930s, the Zerzura Club (named after a lost oasis in the Libyan desert) met once a year for dinner at the Cafe Royal in London. Ostensibly, its members were cosmopolitan adventurers indulging a craze for desert travel by motor car & aeroplane, & searching for the lost oases & ancient cities of a vanished civilization. In reality they were mapping the desert for military reasons, marking vital wells & checking terrain. The Club`s members were drawn from countries that would soon be enemies, & fellowship masked a vicious rivalry. Mussolini hoped to make Egypt the centrepiece of a new Italian empire, but the British
- for whom the Suez Canal was strategically vital
- were determined to hold onto that country. When war broke out in 1939, Ralph Bagnold founded the Long Range Desert Group to spy on & disrupt the Axis powers` advance on Cairo under Rommel, while his fellow club member Count Almasy tried to spirit the Egyptian Chief of Staff out of Cairo, & succeeded in inserting German spies. Both of them were using knowledge & desert craft drawn from the hazardous hunt for the Zerzura Oasis, where each had deceived the other about his true purpose. In telling this story, Saul Kelly draws on interviews with survivors as well as previously unknown documentary material in Britain, Italy, Germany, Hungary & Egypt. His book reads like a thriller by John Buchan or Frederick Forsyth
- with one key difference: it is true.


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