Detailed ski map at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, the country’s national survey organization, showing routes for skiing and/or snowboarding, access by public transport, recommended itineraries, lists of mountain huts, etc. The series uses the cartography of Switzerland’s topographic survey, with additional colouring to show slopes steeper than 30°. An overprint highlights ski routes, indicating suggested direction, difficult passages & sections which must be covered on foot. Also marked are areas where it is forbidden to leave the routes shown on the map. The maps also highlight roads with bus routes, indicating individual bus stops, show ski lifts & funiculars, plus mark locations of refuges or other mountain accommodation. Each title has the Swiss national grid at intervals of 1km, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’. Some titles cover a larger area, with a part of an adjoining sheet printed on the reverse of the main map as indicated on our series grid. Where appropriate, ski information extends across the border to France & Italy. On the reverse are itineraries of routes recommended by the Swiss Alpine Club, indicating the degree of difficulty, plus lists of alpine huts with contact details. Map legend for the overprint

Includes:: English. The text about the routes & accommodation is in the main language of the area covered by the map. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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JUNGLE features exotic animals in vivid colour & vibrant motion: A tree frog blinks his big red eyes. A tiger stalks his prey. A blue leaf monkey scratches his back. A tarantula scurries across the ground. A butterfly drinks from a tropical flower. A whipsnake darts its tongue. A nocturnal tarsier scans for food. A vividly patterned macaw comes in for a landing. ...

Every page of the spectacular pop-up book bursts with life, colour & sound. Peer through the jungle undergrowth to spot screeching howler monkeys, trumpeting elephants & growling leopards. Each jungle scene is accompanied by fascinating information about the creatures living there, so you can look, listen & learn! Ready to explore? The sounds of the wild are calling! ...

This title features short stories that is designed to help kids learn how to read & learn to love reading. Jungle Adventures is a ” Reading Alone” reader, perfect for children who are proficient readers. These short stories for children develop the habit of reading widely for both pleasure & information. DK Reads proves that good reads build great readers. Join Charlotte & a team of scientists on an expedition to explore Cambodia`s wildlife. Experience the mosquitoes, snakes & torrential rain of the rainforest, & join the team as they encounter frogs, monkeys & even a tiger! ...

Look out! Giant pop-up animals ahead! Open the cover of Face to Face Safari &.. .look out! It`s an elephant! & right behind that, a lion! A giraffe! A rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, & a chimpanzee! Six Big, bright animals really pop off the pages so children can get up close & personal with all their jungle favorites. Sturdy construction means many happy safaris ahead while whimsical rhymes add to the fun in a book that will make young imaginations run wild. ...

In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler & her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu
- a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood was spent hunting, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows & chewing on pieces of bat-wing in place of gum. She also learns how brutal nature can be
- & sees the effect of war & hatred on tribal peoples. After the death of her Fayu-brother, Ohri, Sabine decides to leave the jungle &, aged seventeen, she goes to a boarding school in Switzerland
- a traumatic change for a girl who acts & feels like one of the Fayu. ' Fear is something I learnt here' she says. ' In the Lost Valley, with a lost tribe, I was happy. In the rest of the world it was I who was lost.' Here is Sabine Kuegler's remarkable true story of a childhood lived out in the Indonesian jungle, & the struggle to conform to European society that followed.


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This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942-45. It is a true account of the alternate horror & banality of daily life, & the humour that helped the men survive the beatings, deprivation & death of comrades. Told through the diary & papers of Williams & others, Jungle Journal

Includes:: many cartoons & poems produced by the prisoners, as well as extracts from the original Jungle Journal, a newspaper created by the men under the noses of their guards. Ronald Williams was the `editor` of this potentially fatal `publication`. Jungle Journal describes the survival of hope even in desperate straits, & is a testament to those men whose courage & fortitude were tested to the limit under the tropical sun.

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New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE ”MASTERFUL CHRONICLE”* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN ”ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME”* In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world`s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens & British artist Frederick Catherwood-both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy L&, Greece, & Rome-sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, & Mexico. What they found would upend the West`s understanding of human history. In the tradition of Lost City of Z & In the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalist & Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals the remarkable story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, & the torments of nature & terrain, Stephens & Catherwood meticulously uncovered & documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece & Rome-and had been its rival in art, architecture, & power. Their masterful book about the experience, written by Stephens & illustrated by Catherwood, became a sensation, hailed by Edgar Allan Poe as ”perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published” & recognized today as the birth of American archaeology. Most important, Stephens & Catherwood were the first to grasp the significance of the Maya remains, understanding that their antiquity & sophistication overturned the West`s assumptions about the development of civilization. By the time of the flowering of classical Greece (400 b.c.), the Maya were already constructing pyramids & temples around central plazas. Within a few hundred years the structures took on a monumental scale that required millions of man-hours of labor, & technical & organizational expertise. Over the next millennium, dozens of city-states evolved, each governed by powerful lords, some with populations larger than any city in Europe at the time, & connected by road-like causeways of crushed stone. The Maya developed a cohesive, unified cosmology, an array of common gods, a creation story, & a shared artistic & architectural vision. They created stucco & stone monuments & bas reliefs, sculpting figures & hieroglyphs with refined artistic skill. At their peak, an estimated ten million people occupied the Maya`s heartland on the Yucatan Peninsula, a region where only half a million now live. & yet by the time the Spanish reached the ” New World, ” the Maya had all but disappeared; they would remain a mystery for the next three hundred years. Today, the tables are turned: the Maya are justly famous, if sometimes misunderstood, while Stephens & Catherwood have been nearly forgotten. Based on Carlsen`s rigorous research & his own 1, 500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan & Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative & a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of Stephens, Catherwood, & the Maya themselves.* Missourian* Tampa Bay Times ...

This bumper activity book contains jungle scenes set in the Amazon River, the African jungle & a hot & steamy swamp. With over 170 stickers of gorillas, elephants, leopards, lemurs & more, plus plenty of colouring pages including noisy parrots in the jungle tree tops & crocodiles dozing on the river bank. ...

** The Air Ministry`s emergency survival series makes the perfect gift for those who think they`d survive the world`s most hostile environments
- or at least imagine they could do!** First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry`s Jungle Survival guide

Includes:: original & authentic emergency advice to crew operating over the jungle regions. With original illustrations & text, these survival guides provide an insight to military survival techniques from a by-gone era. Packed with original line drawings & instruction in:
- What to do if `jungle hiking becomes boring`- How to stay safe from poisonous reptiles & insects- The benefits of using a `fire thong` Focussing on one of the most hostile environments on Earth, Jungle Survival is one of four reprints of The Air Ministry`s emergency survival pamphlets. Others include: Sea Survival Desert Survival Arctic Survival



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