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). ...

Stanley Johnson`s latest political thriller Kompromat claims to recount the story of the most audacious geo-political coup since Genghis Khan & his hordes swept across Asia into Europe. The UK Referendum in June 2016, on Britain`s membership of the EU, was a political showdown a British prime minister thought couldn`t be lost. But the next morning Britain woke up to a shock result. Kompromat explores the skulduggery that might just have gone on behind the scenes. ...

2016. The world is on the brink of crisis. In Britain, the British Prime Minister is fighting a referendum he thought couldn`t be lost. In the USA, brash showman, Ronald Craig is fighting a Presidential Election nobody thought he could win. In the USSR, Igor Popov, the Russian President, is using both events as part of his plan to destabilise the West. Three men who could change the course of the world forever. In his brilliant new thriller, Stanley Johnson, former MEP, has written an alternative account of the seismic events that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. ...

Konditor & Cook are legends in the baking world. Their contemporary & witty cakes are famous
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The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Map No. 10026, Kongsberg, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Kongsberg area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:50, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 100K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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One of the titles in the topographic survey of the Svalbard group published in a colour version, available for the western coast, central & southern part of Spitzbergen, plus two small islands of Svenskøya & Kongsøya. The map has contours at 25-metre intervals, bold relief shading & spot heights, & shows settlements, roads & tracks, working & disused mines, airfields, lighthouses & radio beacons, etc. A grid gives UTM co-ordinates plus latitude in steps of 10` & longitude in 20’. The rest of Spitzbergen, Nordaustlandet, Edgeøya & other small islands are covered by black & white maps with contours only. Most of these maps show no geographical names, as indicated in the individual descriptions of each title. ...

Map No. 10035, Kongsvinger, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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