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
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Hunter Valley region of New South Wales a touring map at 1:450, 000 from UBD Gregory’s, with enlargements showing in greater detail the areas with wineries for which this region is famous, plus street plans of several local towns. About half of one side of the map is taken by a touring map of the Hunter Valley region, showing the network of local roads & highlighting national parks & other protected areas, including the Wollemi NP & Barrington Tops NP. Symbols mark locations of picnic areas, campsites & caravan parks, various places of interest, etc. The map clearly shows which areas are shown on additional panels of road maps & street plans. Two wine growing areas in the Upper & the Lower Hunter Valley are presented on more detailed mapping at 1:200, 000 & 1:66, 700 respectively, with names of numerous wineries. The main map & the two enlargements have together two combined indexes: regional attractions plus regional wineries. On the reverse are seven more panels with street plans at 1:25, 000 of local towns: central Newcastle, Port Stephens, Muswellbrook, Singleton, Maitl&, Cessnock & Gloucester, plus a list of information centres. To see other titles in this series of touring maps from UBD Gregory’s please click on the series link. ...

Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve
- pushing thirty & eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher
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”A modern Graham Greene”. (Sunday Times). Robert Grieve
- pushing thirty & eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a
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Following in the footsteps of countless emigrants, Jonathan Raban takes ship for New York from Liverpool, to explore how succeeding generations of newcomers have fared in America. He finds a country of massive contrasts, between the Street People & the Air People in New York, between small town & big city, between thrusting immigrants & down-at-heel native Americans. ...

” The Hunting of the Snark” relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman & his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver & a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious & elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley & its magical inhabitants, was commissioned to illustrate a Swedish edition of Lewis Carroll`s miniature masterpiece. It proved an inspired choice, as the enigmatic charms of Jansson`s illustrative style bring to life the beauty & strangeness of Carroll`s tale. The minds of two of the greatest children`s authors of the past 150 years meet on the page. Remarkably, amid the success of Tove Jannson`s Moomin books, her unique edition of ” The Hunting of the Snark” was forgotten, & has been unavailable for over fifty years. Now, for the first time, these beautiful illustrations are matched with Lewis Carroll`s original English text, so that readers can encounter this wonderful adventure afresh through the eyes of one of Europe`s finest illustrators. ...