The full story of one of France`s greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form. Jacques Tati`s Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly & striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati`s rise & fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime during the Depression, to the success of Jour de Fete & Mon Oncle, to Playtime, the grandiose masterpiece that left the once celebrated director bankrupt & begging for equipment to complete his final films. Analysing Tati`s singular vision, Bellos reveals the intricate staging of his most famous gags & draws upon hitherto inaccessible archives to produce a unique assessment of his work & its context for film lovers & film students alike. ...

A lined journal, in an ingeniously printed faux leather cover which captures the flavour of finely wrought Renaissance-style leather bindings. It is intricately embellished with one of three designs to reproduce the delicate gold tooling which was brought to Europe via the flourishing trade routes with the east. Closes with a fold-over cover flap. Smythe sewn with 144 pages, plus memento pouch & ribbon page marker. 18x 23cm ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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This Jaeren National Tourist Route Map belongs to a series of 18 map & postcards sets describing popular tourist routes all over Norway. The map set

Includes:: a map in 1:50, 000 presenting an accurate topography (based on the Norwegian topographic survey) which describes local footpaths, cycle or ski routes, sport & recreational facilities, places of interest, places to stay & eat, viewpoints.Jæren National Tourist Route is a 41-kilometre-long stretch of road between Ogna & Bore in the county of Rogaland in Fjord Norway. There are two panoramic view & rest areas: Kvassheim Lighthouse, which now houses a café, toilet, a meeting room & a room for admiring the view. The lighthouse also houses a nature information centre & exhibitions about shipwrecks & the lifeboat service along the Jæren coast. Then at Orre Recreation Centre, there are scenic reserves & the wide range of outdoor activities available in the area. Jæren is Norway`s food basket with intensive agriculture in a flat, vast & well-kept cultural landscape, in an area boasting mild climate all year round. Side roads down to Kvassheim Lighthouse & other cultural heritage sites, boulders & sand dunes give an exciting glimpse of both ocean & history. Jæren`s thousand square kilometres or more represent the largest lowland area in Norway & the long sandy beaches along the way can offer the tourist some relaxation. The set
Features: One map: scale 1:50, 000 Text in three languages (Norwegian, English & German)5 Postcards (13.5x 25cm) To see the list of other titles in this series, please click on the series link.


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Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame & fortune in the motor industry, & the Jaguar brand that he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, & in the 1930s in Coventry developing the SS motor car, with the st&-alone Jaguar company not appearing until 1945. The company`s success was aided by the amazing new XK engine of 1948, by motor racing success at Le Mans, & by the stunning styling of cars like the XK120, the Mk 2 saloons & the extraordinary E-Type. Graham Robson here explores the history of the Jaguar company & its many classic marques. ...

In this brilliantly focused & haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the l&, & the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes & warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister
- a priest
- to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room. His perceptions always heightened by his sensitivity & his unique flair for language, in The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie brings us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, & life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

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Jaguars & Electric Eels presents extracts from the work of Alexander von Humboldt, chronicler of the New World. A great, innovative & restless thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure & scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela
- in the Llanos & on the Orinoco River
- riding & paddling, restlessly & happily noting the extraordinary things on every h&. 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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Tim Cahill has clambered up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands, searching for the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's dined on baked turtle lung in the desolate northeast of Australia & harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's watched a wrestling match between a shark & an underwater zombie during a horror movie shoot off the coast of Mexico. In this collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes about these close encounters, giving new meaning to the expression going to extremes. He also briefs us on gorilla etiquette, porcupine vendettas, & the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. ...

Jaipur
- 10 Easy Walks is a locally produced guide that gives the tourist the means with which to explore the famed lanes & architectural
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