Victoria – The High Country Atlas & Guide: an A4, spiral-bound guide & atlas from Hema, with an illustrated guide to the region & its main attractions, an indexed road atlas, advice on planning road trips, etc. The opening chapter section provides background information on the region’s history, fauna & flora, etc. Chapter 2 covers planning the trip, including a “ Where to stay” section with lists of supply centres & ski resorts. This is followed by a “ Things to do” section listing various recreational pursuits & providing information on organized tours & guiding services. The region’s three main attractions: the Great Alpine Road, Alpine National Park, plus Snowy River & Baw Baw National Park are each given a separate chapter. 25 top 4WD trips in the High Country & Central & East Gippsland are highlighted on detailed map extracts, accompanied by a description of the route & information on facilities including campsites. The last part of this title provides a detailed road atlas of the whole area, with contoured mapping & locations annotated to show what services can be found there. The atlas is index & for GPS users has a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 30’. To see the list of Hema’s road atlases/guides of Australia & of its individual states please click on the series link. ...

“ Façade of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Cromwell Road” in a series of prints of sepia photos of some of old London’s best loved landmarks, presented by Soho Publishing in an A3 (29.6 x 39.6 cm) format.. Under the photo are brief notes about the building. Not that much change from today – just the traffic lights & the cars are missing! Ideal for framing, these reproductions show many long gone or much changed sites & offer a unique way of decorating your home or office with photos of near by or close-to-your-heart parts of the capital. Please note: the prints are supplied flat rather than rolled, with an A3 protective piece of cardboard, so the package will be larger than the standard size letterbox. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The whole of Victoria, divided east/west between the two sides of the map, with 16 specially selected scenic routes & circuits, from 160km to 500km long. National & state parks are highlighted & symbols show rest areas, camping sites & caravan parks, fuel supplies, wine growing areas, information centres, places of interest, etc. Topography is indicated by names of mountain ranges & peaks. Latitude/longitude grid is at 30 ...

Victoria Eggs` London Kitchenware Collection featuring London inspired designs for a range of accessories, tea towels, oven gloves, tote bags & more. From the humorous Cockney Slang tea towel to the stylish oven glove & the tote bag Victoria’s creations are born from her love for all things British. The technique & themes used produce contemporary & fun items that add style & humour to the kitchen. All products are printed on premium cotton & made in the UK. Perfect gifts, stylish accessories, fabulous souvenirs, Victoria Egg’s Collection is beautiful, colourful, fun & wholesome; just like homemade. ...

Victoria at 1:850, 000 in a series of road maps from Hema covering Australia’s states. On the reverse several panels provide detailed coverage of the state’s most visited areas:
- Road map at 1:450, 000 of the Great Ocean Road between Geelong & the state border with South Australia annotated with brief descriptions of 24 main places of interest.- Road map at 1:378, 000 covering the East Gippsland– the mountainous region along the state’s eastern coastline.
- Detailed street plan covers Melbourne’s town centre (the CBD), plus a road map of Melbourne‘s suburbs. Also provided are lists of National Parks indicating what facilities can be found there & of information centres, all with contact details. Titles in Hema’s series of Australia’s state maps present the whole state on one side with an index & a distance table. Road network from main highways, shown with their names, to minor roads & 4WD tracks, indicates unsealed routes & rough tracks. Driving distances are marked on many smaller local roads. Railway lines & local airports or airstrips are included. Symbols highlight roadside rest areas, 24h fuels supplies, as well as campsites & caravan parks, places of interest, visitor information centres, etc. Colouring indicates national parks & other protected areas including marine parks, Aboriginal lands & restricted entry zones. The maps have a latitude/longitude grid at intervals varying from 30’ to 2º. To the other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Victoria’s High Country, the mountains of the Great Dividing Range including the Alpine National Park, on a contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:200, 000 from Hema printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. The map is double-sided with a good overlap between the sides; coverage in the west starts at Mansfield, north-east of Melbourne, & extends across the border of New South Wales to include the southern part of the Kosciuszko National Park with Mt Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest peak. Topography is well presented by contours at 50m intervals, with additional relief shading plus graphics for swamps & areas liable to inundation. Colouring indicates national parks, alpine resort areas, & other protected l&. Road information is divided into two groups: roads & tracks which were plotted during fieldwork carried out by Hema, plus other tracks shown on the country’s 250K topographic survey maps and/on other sources. The map also provides contact details for information on roads subject to seasonal closures. An extensive range of symbols highlights numerous facilities, including availability of various types of fuel, accommodation & campsite areas, meals & general stores, police stations & medical facilities, etc. The map has a 5-km UTM gird, plus latitude/longitude lines at 30’ intervals. Also included are brief notes on driving in the alpine regions & a list of contact addresses. To see other titles in Hema’s series of regional maps of Australia please click on the series link. ...

Kids Company, a leading London charity supported by Prince Charles, Helen Mirren & Stephen Fry, presents the voices of some of London`s children, in partnership with the charity`s founder Camila Batmanghelidjh
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. ”A powerful, heartbreaking read”. (The Times). ”A moving exposition of why the work Kids Company does is necessary, complete with first-person testimony from those the charity has helped”. (Evening Standard). ”[ Mind the Child is] impossible to read without being moved to tears.. . Every Londoner should read this book for a glimpse into a side of the capital too many of us turn a blind eye towards.. .`”. (Londonist). ” Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O` Farrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually they`re delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city. (Evening Standard). ” Exquisitely diverse”. (The Times). ” Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed”. (Tom Cox, Observer). ”A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books”. (A Common Reader blog). ” The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw”. (Londonist). ”A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes
- some personal, some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, & just the right amount of grit”. (Fabric Magazine). ”A collection of beautiful books”. (Grazia). Camila Batmanghelidjh founded Kids Company in 1996. In 2009 The Women in Public Life Awards named her businesswoman of the year. Kids Company`s services reach over 36, 000 children & young people every year & they provide intensive support for over 18, 000. These include the most deprived & at risk whose parents are unable to care for them due to their own practical & emotional challenges. For many, the roles of adult & child are reversed &, despite profound love, both struggle to survive. The children are assisted through a recovery programme which is assessed, designed & delivered according to the individual service user which helps them achieve their full potential. Their supporters include Prince Charles, Richard Branson, Stephen Fry & Helen Mirren.

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Victoria Park in 1889 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. STwo versions have been published for this area. The maps cover south Manchester around & to the north of Victoria Park, including part of Chorlton upon Medlock & the northern part of Rusholme. Coverage stretches from Lloyd Street eastward to Longsight station & from Dover Street southward to Rusholme Grove. Features on the 1889 map include Park Crescent, St John`s church, St Joseph`s Boys Industrial Schools, Holy Name RC church, tramways & depot, Atlas Brewery, Longsight Sidings with engine sheds, Oxford Street, Hulme Hall, St Saviour`s church, etc. On the reverse are extracts from an early street directory. By the time of the 1915 map the area was largely built up & features also include Victoria University, Whitworth Park, Art Gallery, Royal Infirmary, St Chrysostom`s church, St Mary`s Hospital, eastern part of Greenheys, etc. The 1916 map

Includes:: a selection of street directory extracts for Anson Road, Birch Lane, Denison Road, Denmark Road, Chorlton on Medlock High Street & York Place. 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.

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Victoria on a waterproof & tear-resistant “ State & Cities” map from UBD Gregory’s providing coverage of the whole state at 1:975, 000 with an index of places, plus a city centre street plan of Melbourne & plans of Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Albury– Wodonga, Sale, Mildura & Warrnambool. Maps in this series from UBD Gregory’s present Australia’s states as “ State & Suburban” titles with a map showing suburbs of the state capital, or as “ State & Cities” title, each with a city centre street plan of the state capital plus plans of other local towns. Some states are currently covered by only one of these two versions, others are available in both. Certain titles, as indicated in the individual description, are waterproof & tear-resistant. The state map is indexed & shows the road & railway networks. Topography is indicated by names of deserts, mountain ranges & selected peaks, with national parks, reserves & protected areas, aboriginal lands, & World Heritage sites highlighted. Symbols provide tourist information, highlighting places of interest & information centres, etc. Each map has a grid showing latitude & longitude at 1º intervals. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...