Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty & its potential to comfort, awe & mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the l&. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, & the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty & inspiration of waterfall, lake & fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view. While painters painted & writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the l&, & published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural Engl&. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, &, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed & farmed, showing that what is universal is a place`s capacity to frame & define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite & compelling book, written with zest, passion & deep understanding. ...

A ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty & its potential to comfort, awe & mesmerise. Landskipping explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the l&, beginning in the eighteenth century when artists first started to paint English scenery, & the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Meanwhile, at the same time, an entirely different band of people, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the l&, looking at it in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty. What emerges as universal then & now is a place`s capacity to frame & define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite & compelling book, written by Anna Pavord with zest, passion & deep understanding. ...

Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton`s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun & surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages & the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the `simple, peculiar shack` that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself. In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore about diving, dunes, beachcombing & the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb & flow that became a way of life, & that shaped one of our finest writers. ` Both a serial romantic & a truly gifted novelist` Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday ...

On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton`s days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun & surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages & the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the `simple, peculiar shack` that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself. In this beautifully delicate memoir, Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore
- about diving, dunes, beachcombing
- & the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb & flow that became a way of life, & that shaped one of our finest writers. ` Both a serial romantic & a truly gifted novelist` Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday

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Land`s End with Penzance & St Ives area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 102, waterproof version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Land`s End with Penzance & St Ives area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 102, paper version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Map No. 203, Land`s End & Isles of Scilly 1813, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. * Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc.* New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day St Ives, Penzance, Redruth, Camborne, Helston, Newlyn, Sennen Cove, Sancreed, St Just, Morvah, Nanclerda, Crowlas, Marazion, Leedstown, Hayle, Praa Sands, Troon, Portreath, Porthtowan, St Agnes, Porkellis, Seworgan, Mawgan, Cury, Mullion, Lizard, Gunwalloe & the Stithians Reservoir.* PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 203, Land`s End & Isles of Scilly 1900, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. * Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc.* New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day St Ives, Penzance, Redruth, Camborne, Helston, Newlyn, Sennen Cove, Sancreed, St Just, Morvah, Nanclerda, Crowlas, Marazion, Leedstown, Hayle, Praa Sands, Troon, Portreath, Porthtowan, St Agnes, Porkellis, Seworgan, Mawgan, Cury, Mullion, Lizard, Gunwalloe & the Stithians Reservoir.* PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.



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Published by Sustrans, the creator of the National Cycle Network, this is the official guide to the iconic ride using traffic-free paths & quiet roads. The fantastic ride from Land`s End to John o` Groats covers nearly 1, 200 miles on the National Cycle Network, broken into 28 achievable stages using on-road & traffic-free routes & taking you through some of the most picturesque landscapes in England & Scotl&. Explore the Forest of Bowl&, Loch Lomond & the Cairngorms on some of the best cycle paths in the UK. This complete guide

Includes:: maps, directions, recommendations & much more to make your journey a happy & memorable experience, & we hope this book is the start of the ride of a lifetime.

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