Kolkata & West Benegal in the Footprint Focus Guides, which are targeted at cities, regions & countries worldwide that have no, or very limited, coverage from other publishers. Widely recognised for their reliability & independent writing style, Footprint Focus guides all have the same layout. Smaller than their sister Handbooks, the Focus guides are intended to streamline the information contained so that you have more of what you need, without losing Footprint ...

No visit to India is complete without some time spent in West Bengal, a cultured corner of the subcontinent. Wonderfully fertile lands fed by the great Ganga River are home to terracotta temples, hill stations & bustling cities. From the cool air of Darjeeling to the mangrove forests of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, Footprint`s Kolkata & West Bengal covers all the top attractions in this unique region, plus lesser-known sights off the beaten track. * Essentials section with practical tips on getting there & around. * Background section with fascinating information on the region`s fascinating history & culture. * Comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep & relax. * Detailed street maps for Kolkata, Darjeeling & other key destinations. * Slim enough to fit in your pocket. Loaded with advice & information, this concise Footprint Handbook will help you get the most out of Kolkata & West Bengal without weighing you down. ...

Take an early morning walk around Dalhousie Square & admire the colonial buildings that once housed the British Raj before the bustle of Kolkata disturbs the quiet. When the noise picks up you can either head into a museum to learn more about this city's fascinating past or relax watching locals play cricket in The Maiden. When you tire of the city head for the Sunderbans Tiger reserve to catch a glimpse of a Bengali tiger or to Bishnupur to see the splendid terracotta temples. Features detailed information on the cultural heart of India & up-to-date listings on where to eat, sleep & play. Essentials section with practical tips on getting there & around. Background section with fascinating information on the region's unique history, culture & cuisine. Comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep & play including festivals & markets. Detailed street maps for important cities & towns. Slim enough to fit in your pocket. Loaded with advice & information, this concise Footprintfocus guide will help you get the most out of Kolkata & West Bengal without weighing you down. The content of the Footprintfocus Kolkata & West Bengal guide has been extracted from Footprint's India Handbook. ...

Kolkata Street Atlas (publisher title Kolkata City Map) from Eicher Goodearth, indexed by road & place name & at a scale of 1:10, 000, is actually more accurately described as a street atlas of Kolkata & its surrounding areas. Coverage

Includes:: Hoara, Barrackpur, Kalyani & Barsat, with more detailed pages showing Kolkata centre at a scale of 1:5, 000. The map shows road networks; arterial, local main & other roads, as well as one way streets, pedestrian subways, petrol stations & traffic lights. Rail lines & stations & metro lines & metro lines under construction are marked, as are ferry routes, taxi stands & Kolkata’s airports. Local facilities & places of interest are shown, including information centres & hotels & municipal & visitor/cultural sites. in addition, the location of overhead & land level water tanks in the area are extensively documented on the map. Building & land type is indicated, with street numbers & list of abbreviations given.

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Kolkata Calcutta is a superb collection of classic black-&-white, & colour photographs of one the world`s most enthralling ...

Kolonja Prefecture at 1:100, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Kolti, sheet no. 2981-07 in the topographic survey of Nepal at 1:50, 000 published by the Nepali Government in the late 1990s & early 2000s & produced from remote sensing data by Finnish cartographers as part of that country’s international aid program. The maps cover 15’ x 15’ quadrangles.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: AVAILABILITY: although, theoretically at least, still in print, these maps are very difficult to get locally in Nepal and/or from various suppliers elsewhere specializing in obtaining such maps. DELIVERIES MAY TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OR EVEN MONTHS.PROBLEMS WITH PLACE NAMES: reports from previous users indicate that transliteration of place names differs from that used widely not only on other maps & in guide books but also on the ground itself, in road signs & in the tourist & trekking industry in general. Whilst most names are similar enough to be easily recognizable, e.g. Namche Bajar for Namche Bazar or Lantan for Langtang, we have been told of confusion & difficulties arising from different spellings appearing on these maps.TREKKING ROUTES & TOURIST INFORMATION: whilst the maps show foot trails & mark locations of temples, etc, they carry no specific trekking information. Major trekking routes & places of interest are not highlighted. There is no marking for base camps & other tourist facilities. Map specifications: Contours are at 40m intervals, with graphics and/or coloring to show various features of the terrain (glaciers with moraines & crevasses, quarries, gravel or clay pits, etc.) & vegetation (forests, bush, grass, orchards & plantations, etc). Additional comments such as “open mixed forest mainly bajh & pine” annotate many area. The maps have numerous spot heights, but relatively few peaks are named. Areas outside the country’s borders are left blank. Settlements in remote areas are indicated by markings for individual buildings & the placing of names does not always make it clear which group of buildings they refer to. Road network distinguishes between major & minor foot trails. Symbols mark features such as temples, schools & hospitals, police stations, etc. Also shown are the country’s administrative divisions. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend & all the text is in English. Coverage: the whole country is now covered, with the north at 1:50, 000, plus central & southern Nepal at 1:25, 000. The two series are complementary, do not overlap & use the same grid & numbering system (apart from the Lumbini Zone, where a different grid & numbering are used). For areas not shown on our grid & titles not listed here, please contact us by e-mail, but please do bear in mind the problems with availability & the likely very long delivery time. ...

For a long time Magadan Oblast was closed to tourists. This area with its marvellous nature & unlimited opportunities was associated only with the Kolyma labour camps. Luckily the tragic events of the past became part of the history. Today Magadan Oblast is a dynamically developing region of the Russian Far East, with huge prospects for industrial & tourist development. The untouched beauty of its nature, the gold mines, & the romantic & heroic history of the North will make the tour around Magadan Oblast unforgettable. ...

From the author of the award-winning White Fever, Kolyma Diaries is an excursion into one of the world`s last remaining badlands, a place full of Gulag ghosts & living wrecks. All along the 2000 kilometres of the Kolyma highway, Bader is plied with vodka. He hears mesmerizing, sometimes devastating, tales of the journeys that brought his `fellow travellers`, the people who give him lifts, to this benighted l&. This is a book about the descendants of prisoners eking out a living, of conmen & veterans & scrap iron dealers, of corrupt politicians & organised crime. Stories are told of sons given away, husbands who reappear after three decades, scholars who now survive by foraging for mushrooms & berries, sculptors who hoard the heads lopped off statues of Lenin, miners who dig up mass graves while looking for gold, & all the addicts, convicts, fallen heroes & even sportsmen who run away from their troubles & end up in the most remote region in Russia ...

” The best thriller I`ve ever read.” (Philip Pullman). Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It`s a place so secret it doesn`t officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible...” Sensationally good. Cleverly conceived & brilliantly executed. One of the great thrillers of the last century.” (Charles Cumming). ...