The Metropolitan Railway can claim to have had an influence on the evolution of our railway system out of all proportion to its tracks reaching just forty-seven miles from London. However it was the world`s first underground passenger railway, built in 1863 to ease the traffic congestion of a growing London & thus creating the first metro system. Embraced by the notorious Victorian entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin as part of his ultimately unsuccessful ambition to link Manchester & Paris by rail, the Metropolitan decided to use Watkin`s land to create the iconic ` Metro-land`, an Arcadian form of suburbia embracing affordable housing with easy commuting to London. The brand soon became accepted as the generic description of a lifestyle & by the end of the First World War Metro-land represented the appealing factors of aspiration & affordability. This fascinating history of London`s first tube line & the people involved in its evolution brings us up to date with the latest plans for this idiosyncratic railway in line with the coming 2012 Olympics. Featuring many previously unpublished photographs, it is a must for all railway enthusiasts & social historians. ...

Richard Mabey, one of Britain`s leading nature writers, looks in A Good Parcel of English Soil at the relationship between city & country, & how this brings out the power of nature
- 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. ” Richard Mabey`s A Good Parcel of English Soil, his essay on the Metropolitan line, is one of the most compelling segments of Penguin`s Underground Lines.. .eclectic & broad-minded.. .elegantly written”. (Observer). ” 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). Praise for Richard Mabey: ” Radiant, tingle-making prose has earned Mabey literary prizes & a multitude of fans”. (Daily Mail). ” Richard Mabey is a man for all seasons, most regions & every kind of landscape”. (Andrew Motion Financial Times).” Refreshing, droll, politically alert, occasionally self-mocking, he has the enviable ability both to write historical overview & also to slip into the woods like a dryad, bringing us back to the trees themselves, their colours & lights & textures”. (Guardian). Richard Mabey has been described as ` Britain`s greatest living nature writer` & is a frequent contributor to the BBC.

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Travel the world in well-equipped style! Metropolitan travel accessories take their lead from vintage maps of favourite cities; London, Paris, Venice & New York. Wild & Wolf presents a wide selection of cool travel bags, purses, document holders, pens & lip balms each with a contemporary neon flash. ...

The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. Both the armchair traveller & the visitor wil enjoy an illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller & veteran of the city. The book

Includes:: visits to Paris catacombs at Hell`s Gate, the literary cafs & old jazz cellars of Montparnasse & Saint-Germain-des-Pres & the seventeenth-century alleys of the Marais, along with trips to the Palais-Royal at the time of the Revolution & the world of opera during Claude Debussy`s lifetime. Through the eyes of the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Dallas describes the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War & the intellectual wars that immediately followed. A visit to the futuristic Cit de la Science at La Villette prompts the story of the Marquis de Mors, the French cowboy & anti-semite, who was eventually murdered by tribesmen of the Sahara Desert in 1896. Outside the Jesuit church of Saint-Paul Dallas tells us about Gabriel de Montgomery, forgotten ancestor of Montgomery of Alamein, who accidentally killed his king just there &, after leading the Protestant armies against Catherine de Medicis, was executed on the Place de Gr?ve. This exciting journey through time & space concludes at the P?re Lachaise Cemetery with the unknown tale of Oscar Wilde`s strange involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, the greatest legal scandal of all time.

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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Map No. 111, Metz
- Verdun
- Luxembourg City, at 1:100, 000, part of the TOP100 series from the Institut Géographique National

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Metz & its Environs in a series of detailed road maps at 1:80, 000 from the IGN, designed to highlight places of interest & recreational possibilities, with a city centre street plan & an enlargement of a selected hiking area. Cartography is an enlargement from 1:100, 000 to 1:80, 000 of the publisher’s highly popular TOP100 series, with very detailed presentation of the road network, including classification of local roads according to lanes, rest areas, access restrictions, etc. Railway lines are shown with stations. Topography is shown by relief shading, with spot heights & colouring for woodlands, vineyards, orchards, etc. Cycle tracks & long-distance GR routes are marked. A wide range of symbols indicate various places of interest & recreational facilities, historical & cultural sites, golf courses, rock climbing, nature reserves, etc. Refuges & gîtes d’etape are marked, but no campsites. The maps have no geographical coordinates for GPS. Each title has an index of communes. Map legend

Includes:: English.A special feature of this series is the inclusion of a large city centre street plan & an enlargement of a particularly interesting recreational area. Presentation of these features varies, so please check the individual descriptions for more information.* IN THIS TITLE: a large street plan of Metz city centre highlighting main traffic arteries & indicating one way streets. An additional panel presents an extract from IGN’s topographic coverage of the area around Dornot just south-west of city in their TOP25 series but shown here at 1:30, 000. The extract highlights local hiking routes.

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Street plan of Metz at 1:12, 500 from the Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization, with an enlargement showing the town centre in greater detail.IGN street plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration. The plans prominently highlight principal traffic arteries & show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Latest editions also indicate 24h petrol stations & streets with separate cycle paths. Many streets are annotated with selected house for easier identification of addresses. Important public buildings are named & symbols mark locations of tourist information centres & other facilities. Street index, arranged by an administrative area, is next to the map. Map legend

Includes:: English.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of IGN street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between IGN & Blay-Foldex street plans.



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Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents Winner of the Prix Francois Mauriac THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORLD BY STORM He was the brother of `the Arab` killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus`s classic novel. Angry at the world & his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name
- Musa
- & a voice, & by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity & the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique & affecting voice.

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