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
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The Meuse including the section from the French border to Namur in Belgium in a series of guides to France’s navigable rivers & canals from Editions du Breil, providing mapping of the waterways with better presentation of the surrounding countryside, including street plans of main towns along the routes. The maps present the waterways with locks, mooring places, etc. & the surrounding localities annotated with symbols indicating various facilities & places of interest. Most map panels cover a full page, enabling the publishers to provide better coverage of the surrounding countryside, showing more local towns & villages plus the connecting roads. The guides also include better street plans of selected larger towns, indicating main sights, etc. Navigating instructions or tips & information about various facilities or places of interest are usually located on a page opposite to the map of the route. The guides also contain general information on rules & regulations for navigating along France’s inland waterways, plus examples of signs & signals. All of the text, explanations & the map legend are in French, English & German. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Meuse & Meurthe-et-Moselle départments at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series of France, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central Bar-le-Duc, Metz & Nancy. The map is double-sided, dividing the region east/west, with a good overlap & Metz & Nancy included on both sides. Coverage extends from Luxembourg City to St-Dié in the south &

Includes:: Verdun, Luneville, the northern part of the Vosges Mountain, etc. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.





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Mexborough in 1901 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. The map is double-sided. The main map covers the southern part of Mexborough, including the station, High Street, Market Place, Bank Street, Market Place, Don Iron Works, Don Glass Works, St John the Baptist church, Church Street & Castle Hill. Coverage extends south to Denaby village, Denaby Rage & Denaby Common; & eastward to Coalpit Plantation & Flameless Explosive Works. Part of Denaby Main Colliery is in the north-eastern corner. On the reverse is half of the adjacent sheet 284.05 extending coverage north to cover the northern part of the town, including Town End, Herbert Street, Dolcliffe Common, cemetery. St John`s church (Adwick upon Dearne) is in the extreme north-western corner. 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. ...

Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Available again in an appealing new format, this lavish interiors book is an indispensable guide to modern Mexican style, from the world-class arbiter of cool interiors, Herbert Ypma. Featuring recent projects from the country's most noted architects & designers, from thatched huts on the Pacific coast to contemporary homes in Mexico City, there's also a source guide of colours & materials to help readers & designers track down the key elements of Mexican style, & re-create the look. ...

Mexican Spanish Phrase Book & CD in a selection of language titles from Berlitz, to aid you before & during your travels. Berlitz have been producing language titles & promoting language learning for more than 125years. Catalogue selection comprising the following Berlitz series: Phrase books & Dictionaries, Phrase books & CDs, Shortcuts to ...

The Lonely Planet Mexican Spanish is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language & beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar & pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet phrasebooks enable you to quickly & confidently construct your own phrases in addition to those given. The given phrases cover all the essential travel & tourism categories such as transport, communications, business meetings & accommodation, as well as in-depth categories such as health, food & social interaction. Newer editions such as this have a fresh visual design with an intuitive layout that makes them much easier to read than other publisher ...

Mexican Spanish in the Phrasebooks series from Rough Guides; comprising of pocket-sized guides aimed at providing travellers with essential communication & language tips & skills while travelling. Each guide has a double-language dictionary, preceded by a basic grammar section with a clear A-Z format, simple pronunciation guides, travel scenario dialogues & menu readers, all enhanced by an easy-to-read design. There are also helpful hints on cultural do's & don'ts, useful travel tips & references to popular local food & drink. Each book also has a web page where you can download the travel scenarios, recorded with native speakers, as audio files for your Mac, PC or iPod. ...

I would never have found this place, learned your name, shared a bottle of tequila
- unless I'd opened this book
local expressions

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