Macedonia Wall Map at 1:250, 000 from Gizi Map, size 100 x 68cm (39.5” x 27” approx) with a street plan of central Skopje. The map offers excellent presentation of the country’s topography through relief shading, altitude colouring, peak heights & plenty of names of mountain ranges. Road network

Includes:: local roads & tracks, shows driving distances on main & many secondary routes, & indicates border crossings from the neighbouring countries. Railway lines & local airports are included. Symbols indicate locations with tourist accommodation, campsites, & other places of interest; national parks are highlighted. Names of larger towns are also shown in Cyrillic alphabet. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 15’. The index is next to the map. Map legend

Includes:: English. Also provided is a street plan of central Skopje annotated with places interest. Please note: this title is also available in a folded format.



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Road Macedonia at 1:300, 000 from the Skopje-based publishers Trimaks highlighting locations of wineries, with on the reverse an enlargement showing in greater detail the main wine growing Kavadarci – Negotino region. On one side a road map of the whole country, framed in a decorative border, is overprinted with icons of wineries, which are also listed in the accompanying index. On the reverse, the main wine growing region around Kavadarci, Negotino, Gradsko & Demir Kapija is shown in greater detail. All place names on the main map & the enlargement are shown in the Latin alphabet. The reverse side also has brief descriptions of Macedonia’s 12 main vineyards & adverts for various vineries. Map legend & all the text include English. ...

Popular recreational areas of Macedonia on detailed maps from the Skopje-based Trimaks, indicating various tourist facilities & places of interest. On the reverse is further useful information, including on some maps street plans of local towns. Map scale, presentation of the topography & GPS compatibility vary – please see individual descriptions for further details. ...

Macerata Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The 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. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

Macgillycuddy's Reeks at 1:30, 000 on a waterproof & tear-resistant, GPS compatible map from Harvey Map Services in their Superwalker series covering popular hiking areas of Great Britain & Irel&, annotated with additional information for walkers. The maps have contours at 15m intervals, with additional graphics for various types of terrain (crags, large boulders, scattered rocks) & colouring for different kinds of land use or vegetation (pastures, bogs, forests or woodl&, etc). The maps show local hiking paths, indicating, where appropriate, long-distance routes & boundaries of national parks or other protected areas. Scottish titles also indicate Munro, Corbett & Graham hills. Some maps in addition highlight local cycle routes.A range of symbols mark various facilities for walkers including youth or independent hostels, campsites & caravan sites, information points, etc. Each map has a 1-km with British or Irish national grid. ...

Cairn Gorm & Ben Avon area in the heart of the Scottish Highlands at 1:25, 000 on a waterproof & tear-resistant map from Harvey Map Services in their Superwalker series. The peak of Cairn Gorm is on the eastern side of the map, with coverage extending north to Glanmore & the outskirts of Aviemore, west to Achlean & River Feshie & south to the Glenfeshire Forest & Sgòr Mòr.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a pocket-size Ultramap with its scale reduced to 1:40, 000
- to see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link. Maps in Harvey’s Superwalker series have contours at 15m intervals, with additional graphics for various types of terrain (crags, large boulders, scattered rocks) & colouring for different kinds of land use or vegetation (pastures, bogs, forests or woodl&, etc). The maps show local hiking paths, indicating where appropriate long-distance routes, & boundaries of national parks or other protected areas. Scottish titles also indicate Munro, Corbett & Graham hills. Some maps in addition highlight local cycle routes. A range of symbols mark various facilities for walkers including youth or independent hostels, campsites & caravan sites, information points, etc. Each map has a 1-km British or Irish national grid.
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:25, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Situated high in the Peruvian Andes, the fifteenth-century Inca palace complex at Machu Picchu is one of the most spectacular archaeological sites in the world. In this beautifully illustrated book, leading American & Peruvian scholars provide an unprecedented overview of the site, its place within the Inca empire, the mysteries surrounding its establishment & abandonment, & the discoveries made there since the excavations by archaeologist Hiram Bingham III in the early twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent scientific findings, the authors vividly describe the royal estate in the cloud forest where the Inca emperor & his guests went to escape the pressures of the capital. In addition to Bingham`s exciting account of his first expedition in 1911, the book

Includes:: new & archival photographs of the site as well as colour illustrations & explanations of some 120 gold, silver, ceramic, bone, & textile works recovered at Machu Picchu. It was selected by ” Choice Magazine” as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2005. It is the winner of the 2007 Philip Johnson Award of the Society of Architectural Historians.

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This title describes the site that is voted one of the new seven wonders of the world in 2007. A hundred years ago in July 1911, Hiram Bingham discovered, or more correctly, came across, the iconic `lost city of the Incas` in the Peruvian Andes
- now threatened both by tourism & by the climate. Published for the centenary, ” Machu Picchu” tells the story of this astonishing site, & examines how interpretations of the site have been transformed over the last twenty years. Using the evidence of early Spanish documents, new archaeology &, significantly, looking at material controversially removed from Peru by Bingham, this book breaks exciting new ground on this immense subject.
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Detailed archaeological plan of Machu Picchu showing tourist routes across the site, including the summit of the Huayna Picchu, prepared by the Wright Paleohydrological Institute in Denver & published in conjunction with Peru’s Instituto Nacional de Cultura. All complexes & units are shown with their numbers. Colouring indicates principal Inca routes & corrals, as well as gardens & agricultural areas. Structural walls are shows with doorways, windows, & niches. The plan also indicates double jamb doorways, stairways, fountains, etc, plus shows the site’s drainage system. Symbols mark locations of shrines, temples, observatories, subterranean caves & points of special archaeological interest. On the reverse are photographs of notable features cross-referenced to their locations & annotated with brief descriptions. ...