Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey`s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, & the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes for the mountains to become an outlaw. Before long he has transformed from a young rebel to an infamous bandit, the scourge of corrupt oppressors & hero to the poor. With vividness & simplicity, Kemal`s classic novel evokes the fierce beauty of his country & the struggles of its oppressed people. ...

Memento Mori takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour of some of the worlds more unusual sacred sites & traditions, in which human remains are displayed for the benefit of the living. From burial caves in Indonesia festooned with bones, to skulls smoking cigarettes, wearing beanie hats & sunglasses, & decorated with garlands of flowers in South America, Paul Koudounaris ventures beyond the grave to find messages of hope & salvation. His glorious colour photographs & informed commentaries reveal that in many places, the realms of the living & the dead are nowhere near so distinct as contemporary Western society would have us believe. ...

GPS compatible recreational maps of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their way marking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation, sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & text in German only. ...

What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption? During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions
- who do know
- leave the girl to die. The driver`s mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care & the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town homicide. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns
- including the local police & private security force
- he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, & the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won`t be bought & won`t be bullied, & when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself... By the time Willocks`s tale is finished, fourteen men have died. He shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.



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In his foreword to Memories of a Black Englishman Tony Benn writes: ” Paul Stephenson`s life, as readers of this book will see, offers living proof that history is made by the people who make the effort. ” It also shows that the initial hostility that they provoke is replaced by respect & good will if the effort continues for long enough. ” Paul Stephenson`s life confirms that expectation & I strongly recommend his book.” Paul Stephenson enlisted the support of Tony Benn (then a Labour MP in Bristol) to take on the Bristol Bus Company in 1963 who were refusing to employ black drivers. The Bristol Bus Boycott was a success & marked the start of a lifetime of campaigning by Stephenson. He was regarded as a trouble maker as he challenged racist practices in all aspects of life & strove to bring together black & white communities across the world. His work has been hugely influential & has resulted in him being honored with an OBE & being given the Freedom of the City of Bristol where he lives with his wife Joyce. ...

”A reading experience that hums with an electric energy that never gets boring & feels shockingly, painfully real.” (The Times). ` There`s different ways to do it: I can slowly move closer step by step, or I can do it in one movement & bump into them. Easiest is in a pub then I can put my drink too close to theirs. Move my stool near theirs. Anything to cross the line.` Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief. He is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob, & proves a fast learner: not much more than a child the first time he gets caught, he is a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also fiercely intelligent
- he often knows more about the antique furniture he is stealing than the people who own it, & is confident in his ability to trick his way out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he falls for Mandy...
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, ” Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter” offers ...

These memoirs of the great fellwalker Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells & many other volumes of walking guides & sketchbooks, are full of his thoughts on life & on his experiences on the fells. Wainwright writes about his boyhood in Blackburn, his work & interests as a young man, & the visit to the Lake District at the age of 23 which kindled in him a lasting passion for the fells. He reveals how he set about researching & compiling the Pictorial Guides, the labour of love which occupied so many years of his life. For walkers & other lovers of the Lakeland fells, this is a great read. ...

A delightful & at times revealing memoir details Wainwright's childhood in Blackburn, how he rose from being an office boy in the Borough Treasurer's office in Blackburn to Borough Treasurer itself in Kendal, the fascinating story behind the Pictorial Guides, & his support for animal welfare. The book is illustrated with family photographs as well as his photographs of Lakeland & Scotl&, & a selection of his drawings. ...