High quality relief shaded topographic trekking map. Trails are clearly marked with distances between junctions shown in miles. Clear contours at 200ft intervals, vegetation information & symbols to show the location of various features & facilities of use to hikers, such as ranger stations & campsites. To ensure durability the map is printed upon special waterproof plastic paper.

Includes:: latitude & longitude & UTM grid markings

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Map No. 226, Joshua Tree National Park, CA, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.* *IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.*

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The amazing tale of a resourceful & unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops & mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush & declared himself Prince of Ghor, the heir to Alexander the Great. Josiah Harlan, the first American to set foot in Afghanistan, would become the model for Kipling`s ` The Man Who Would be King`, but the true story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist & writer, Harlan set off into the wilds of Central Asia after a failed love affair in 1820. Following a brief stint as a surgeon in the East India Company`s army, he joined the court of the deposed Afghan monarch Shah Shujah, & then slipped into Kabul disguised as a Muslim priest to foment rebellion. For the next two decades he would play a pivotal role in the bloody politics of the region. Using a trove of newly discovered documents, including Harlan`s long-lost journals, Ben Macintyre has followed Harlan`s footsteps to uncover an astonishing, untold chapter in the history of the Great Game. If you enjoyed William Dalrymple`s ` Return of a King`, ` Josiah the Great` should be on your reading list. ...

Map No. 10062, Sandane, 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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Jostedalsbreen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational Turkart maps at 1:100, 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 1:100, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 50K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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The eastern part of the Jotunheimen region 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.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as part of a 2-map set which

Includes:: the Jotunheimen West map. 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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Jotunheimen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational Turkart maps at 1:100, 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 1:100, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 50K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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The western part of the Jotunheimen region 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.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as part of a 2-map set which

Includes:: the Jotunheimen East map. 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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From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document & a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin & she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the ”selfish magic” of English literature & poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation & her family is Jewish. Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm & rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris. Yet always there is fear for the future, & eventually, in March 1944, Helene & her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp & soon sent to Auschwitz. She went
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- on the death march to Bergen-Belsen & there she died in 1945, only five days before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were ” Horror! Horror! Horror!”, a hideous & poignant echo of her English studies. Helene Berr`s story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.

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' Sunday. I Killed & Buried My Best Friend Today'. It would be one last youthful journey. A classic road trip across America. This was the Kerouac-style dream of Raffi Kodakian & his closest friend David Coughlin. The trip was never completed. Within weeks, David Coughlin was dead, killed by his friend, apparently as an act of mercy, after being lost in a desert for days & suffering from extreme dehydratin. But soon questions began to be asked. Stories of Kodakian's violent temper began to emerge. Kodakian's girlfriend had been very close to Coughlin. How did they get lost in a desert canyon which thousands of other visitors had managed to navigate. & how could a young man kill his best friend, even in mercy? The pair kept a journal that they wrote in, right up to the end, extracts from which are reproduced in the book, offering clues to what really happened to the pair during their missing days in the desert. Kodakian is the only person who knows for certain
- & he was eventually charged with murder. The result of the court case is the thrilling denouement to this extraordinary book.
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