An extraordinary, passionate & personal journey into Africa`s past. ` The most enthralling account out of Africa for years.` Daily Mail. `” Livingstone`s Tribe” is excellent... Taylor is an intelligent & stimulating companion.` Financial Times ` At the book`s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone`s tribe...the whites of post-independence Africa.` Independent on Sunday ` Taylor`s expedition into the interior of the continent`s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have.` Guardian ` Stephen Taylor, a third-generation emigre of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits & failures...as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder & superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa & welcomed independence for Mugabe`s Zimbabwe.` Daily Mail ` Sights & travel experiences are vividly described & people both from Livingstone`s & from the other tribes are handled particularly well.` Sunday Times ...

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. ...

Livorno on an indexed street plan at 1:11, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint, with a detailed enlargement of the city’s historic centre at 1:7, 000. 48 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

Livorno Province at 1:100, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant & bewitching, she is adored by the steady, loyal Tom. But then Liza meets Jim Blakeston, charming & worldy, new to the area, & married. Soon the streets are wise to their passionate affair & Liza`s fall from grace is fast & fatal. Written while Maugham was a medical student, & his first published novel, ” Liza of Lambeth” is a vividly realistic portrayal of working-class London life. ...

Map No. 10060, Ljørdalen, 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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Ljubljana with its outer suburbs at 1:15, 000 on an indexed street plan from the locally based Kartografija, with an enlargement at 1:8, 000 showing the city centre in greater detail, plus a diagram of local bus routes. The plan highlights main traffic arteries across the city & shows one way streets, car parks & locations of petrol stations. Bus routes are shown with stops & line numbers. The map indicates locations of various institutions, services & facilities. Street index is on the reverse. Map legend

Includes:: English. Also provided is a more detailed enlargement of the city centre, plus a diagram of the bus routes.

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Ljubljana & Environs on a contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:75, 000 from the Ljubljana-based Kartografija. On the reverse are bilingual English/ Slovenian descriptions of the region’s best sights. Maps in this series from Kartografija, covering most of Slovenia at 50K or 75K, have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading & plenty of spot heights, names of peaks, mountain chains, etc. Local hiking routes are highlighted & also marked are recommended cycling routes. Symbols indicate various types of accommodation including mountain huts, campsites, inns with lodgings, tourist farms or apartments, hotels & motels, as well as recreational facilities (golf, horse riding, swimming pools, etc), vineries, cultural & historical sites, etc. Road network shows locations of petrol stations. Railway lines are shown with stations & various types of mountain transport (gondolas, chair lifts, etc) are marked. The maps have a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 2’30’’. The reverse side is covered by bilingual notes on the area’s places of interest. Map legend & all the text include English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Ljubljana & Environs in a series of double-sided maps at 1:40, 000 from Kartografija in Ljubljana, accompanied by bilingual guides with descriptions of hiking trails, cycling routes, places of interest, lists of mountain huts, etc. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading & graphics to provide a very effective picture of the topography. Waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to their descriptions in the accompanying guides. A wide range of symbols provide information on various types of accommodation (rural hotels, motels, farms, mountain huts, campsites), recreational facilities, picturesque locations, etc. For drivers, locations of petrol stations are marked. Each map is double-sided, with a good overlap between the sides, & has latitude & longitude lines at 2’ intervals. The accompanying pocket guides are bilingual, Slovenian/ English, with around 60 to 80 pages. Approx. half are descriptions of places of interest, illustrated by colour photos. Descriptions of hiking routes give timings & the degree of difficulty, as do notes for cycling routes which are also accompanied by route profiles. Also provided is a list of mountain huts. Map legends & all the text include English.* In this title:* the 63-page guide

Includes:: 32 hiking trails & 12 cycling routes.

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The environs of Ljubljana at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured, GPS compatible recreational maps from Planinska zveza Slovenie
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