Leytonstone & Leyton in 1915 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions for this area have been published, stretching from Manor Road & Lea Hall Road eastward to Poppleton Road & St John the Baptist`s church; & from Grove Road southward to Grove Green Road. Features on the 1915 map include a stretch of the MR Tottenham & Forest Gate railway including Leyton station, Leyton cricket ground, tramways, Kinematagraph studio, Knotts Green, West Ham Union Infirmary, a short stretch of the GER Epping line including Leytonstone station, Forest House & the fringe of Epping Forest. Churches & streets include St John the Baptist`s High Road, St Catherine`s, St Stephen`s Grove Road, Hainault Road, Hoe Street, High Road, Peterborough Road, etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Lezha Prefecture at 1:90, 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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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, & blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, & covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls & faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others` memories, whispered across time & along the city streets. In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful & lyrical exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets & stone, Robert Barnett presents a searching & unforgettable portrait of Lhasa, its history, & its illegibility. His book not only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places. Barnett juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Tibet, architectural observations, & descriptions by foreign observers to describe Lhasa & its current status as both an ancient city & a modern Chinese provincial capital. His narrative reveals how historical layering, popular memory, symbolism, & mythology constitute the story of a city. Besides the ancient Buddhist temples & former picnic gardens of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa describes the urban sprawl, the harsh rectangular structures, & the geometric blue-glass tower blocks that speak of the anxieties of successive regimes intent upon improving on the past. In Barnett`s excavation of the city`s past, the buildings & the city streets, interwoven with his own recollections of unrest & resistance, recount the story of Tibet`s complex transition from tradition to modernity & its painful history of foreign encounters & political experiment. ...

Lhasa to Kathmandu Cycling Map from Nepa, presenting the 1000km route along the main road joining the two cities, across Gyantse/ Gyangze, Shigatse/ Xigaze, Lhatse/ Chushar & Kodari, on three separate panels. Also shown is the spur to the North Everest Base Camp on the Tibetan side. Markings indicate unpaved sections & the route is annotated with symbols showing overnight stops, likely speed per hour, road distances, road maintenance houses, various places of interest, etc. The base map has contours at 200m intervals with spot heights & names of main peaks, & shows various trekking trails from the main route. The map has no geographical coordinates. Index lists settlements, peaks, passes & various temples. Also included is a profile of the route, tables showing the main route & the Everest detour in sections with altitudes in metres & feet plus intermediate distances, information on climate, etc. ...

Very detailed & informative street plan of Lhasa with enlargements for the Old Town & the Marpori Hill, as well as plans & elevation drawings of main palaces & temples. The plan, based on extensive research project carried out under the auspices of the Network of University Cooperation Tibet-Norway, is designed to highlight the city’s architectural & historical heritage & distinguish between pre- & post-1950 developments. The main plan at 1:4, 000 covers the central part of the city with the all the main religious structures. Religious buildings are highlighted & colouring of secular buildings indicates if built before or after 1950. A wide range of symbols shows various facilities: hotels, restaurants, tea houses, banks, etc.; viewpoints, prostration points, recommended sightseeing route, etc. On the reverse there are plans at 1:3, 000 of the Old Town & the Marpori Hill, plus north & south Chakpori, naming individual historical buildings & temples & indicating all development dating after 1950. Detailed plans & elevation drawings are provided for the Potala Palace & Jokhang Temple, plus plans of several other sites. Also included is a plan of the Norbulingka park & a map at 1:60, 000 showing Greater Lhasa in 1985. All the text is in English, French & German. ...

Georges (the s is silent) has a lot going on. He`s having trouble with some boys at school, his dad lost his job & so his mum has started working all the time
- & they had to sell their house & move into an apartment. But moving into the apartment block does bring one good thing
- Safer, an unusual boy who lives on the top floor. He runs a spy club, & is determined to teach Georges everything he knows. Their current case is to spy on the mysterious Mr X in the apartment above Georges. But as Georges & Safer go deeper into their Mr X plan, the lines between games, lies, & reality begin to blur.

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Tough, light, & waterproof summit map of Liathach from Harveys at 1:12, 500, ideal for mountaineering under poor weather conditions. The cartography is clear & easy to read, with topography shown through spot heights, contour lines at 15m intervals, & index contours at 75m intervals. The map is GPS compatible, with the National Grid overprinted on the cartography.A variety of symbols are used to show terrain detail, such as caves/mines, major & climbing crags, shafts, sinkholes, cairns, & large boulders. Rights of way including tracks & footpaths are prominently highlighted. The map comes in a clear plastic wallet & is printed on Polyethylene, making it tear-resistant, waterproof & lighter than other laminated maps. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Money can`t buy you love. But it can buy many other very nice things. Lia`s mum is a nag, her sister`s a pain & she`s getting nowhere in pursuit of the potentially paranormal Raf. Then she wins GBP8 million in the lottery, & suddenly everything is different. But will Lia`s fortune create more problems than it solves? Everyone dreams of winning the lottery
- but what`s it really like? Find out in this hilarious story by Keren David, nominated for the Carnegie medal. Check out the fabulous Lia`s Guide to Winning the Lottery microsite at www.liasguidetowinningthelottery.co.uk
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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:50, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National. Contour interval varies according to the terrain, from 2.5 metres in the coastal areas to 10 metres in the Ardennes. The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). Each standard sheet covers Approx. 32 x 20 km / 20 x 12 miles, with larger maps published for the border or coastal areas. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 is overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 topographic survey, showing the exact coverage of each sheet. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 50K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. Maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders – to see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Liège Province at 1:100, 000 in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps from the Nationaal Geografisch Instituut/ Institut Géographique National, Belgium’s national survey organization, each with a separate index booklet covering the whole country. Described by the publishers as a topographic series, the maps do carry all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale, but are not contoured & show altitude only by spot heights. Colours & graphics present the terrain & land cover: rocks, dunes, moors & heathl&, orchards, woodlands, swamps & marshl&, etc. Road network is finely graded according to width & the number of lanes. Footpaths are marked, but the maps do not distinguish between waymarked hiking paths or long-distance GR routes & other local paths. The maps also indicate administrative subdivisions of the provinces into districts & communes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Titles covering larger provinces are double-sided. The index booklet supplied with each map covers the whole country &, where appropriate, list alternative versions of place names. Map legend & explanatory text in the booklet include English. ...