The Michabel range, map No. 284T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. The map covers most of the Mischabel range with the southern part of the Mattertal including Zermatt & Randa, the Saastal with Saas Fe, Theodul Pass, Monte Rosa massif, the peaks of Dom & Weisshorn, etc. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

Detailed ski map at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, the country’s national survey organization, showing routes for skiing and/or snowboarding, access by public transport, recommended itineraries, lists of mountain huts, etc. The series uses the cartography of Switzerland’s topographic survey, with additional colouring to show slopes steeper than 30°. An overprint highlights ski routes, indicating suggested direction, difficult passages & sections which must be covered on foot. Also marked are areas where it is forbidden to leave the routes shown on the map. The maps also highlight roads with bus routes, indicating individual bus stops, show ski lifts & funiculars, plus mark locations of refuges or other mountain accommodation. Each title has the Swiss national grid at intervals of 1km, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’. Some titles cover a larger area, with a part of an adjoining sheet printed on the reverse of the main map as indicated on our series grid. Where appropriate, ski information extends across the border to France & Italy. On the reverse are itineraries of routes recommended by the Swiss Alpine Club, indicating the degree of difficulty, plus lists of alpine huts with contact details. Map legend for the overprint

Includes:: English. The text about the routes & accommodation is in the main language of the area covered by the map. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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` Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.` So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ` Bill` Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20, 000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ` Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double bass in the ship`s orchestra`. With unclimbed ice-capped peaks & anchorages that could at best be described as challenging, the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet & Kerguelen provided obvious destinations for Tilman & his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief. His previous attempt to land in the Crozet Islands had been abandoned when their only means of landing was carried away by a severe storm in the Southern Ocean. Back at Lymington, a survey of the ship uncovered serious Teredo worm damage. Tilman, undeterred, sold his car to fund the rebuilding work & began planning his third sailing expedition to the southern hemisphere. Mischief among the Penguins (1961), Tilman`s account of landfalls on these tiny remote volcanic islands, bears testament to the development of his ocean navigation skills & seamanship. The accounts of the island anchorages, their snow-covered heights, geology & in particular the flora & fauna pay tribute to the varied interests & ingenuity of Mischief`s crew, not least after several months at sea when food supplies needed to be eked out. Tilman`s writing style, rich with informative & entertaining"ations, highlights the lessons learned with typical self-deprecating humour, while playing down the immensity of his achievements. ...

` Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure & mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.` H.W. ` Bill` Tilman`s mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa & the Himalaya & further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of Greenland as the perfect sailing destination. His Arctic voyages in the pilot cutter Mischief proved no less challenging than his earlier southern voyages. The shorter elapsed time made it rather easier to find a crew but the absence of warm tropical passages meant that similar levels of hardship were simply compressed into a shorter timescale. First published fifty years before political correctness became an accepted rule, Mischief in Greenland is a treasure trove of Tilman`s observational wit. In this account of his first two West Greenland voyages, he pulls no punches with regard to the occasional failings, leaving the reader to seek out & discover the numerous achievements of these voyages. The highlight of the second voyage was the identification, surveying & successful first ascent of Mount Raleigh, first observed on the eastern coast of Baffin Island by the Elizabethan explorer John Davis in 1585. For the many sailors & climbers who have since followed his lead & ventured north into those waters, Tilman provides much practical advice, whether from his own observations or those of Davis & the inimitable Captain Lecky. Tilman`s typical gift of understatement belies his position as one of the greatest explorers & adventurers of the twentieth century. ...

` So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins & humming birds, of the pampas & of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives` heads steam when they eat marmalade.` So responded H. W. ` Bill` Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude for the romance of the sea with, at his journey`s end, mountains & glaciers at a smaller scale; & the less explored they were, the better he would like it. Within a couple of years he had progressed from sailing a 14-foot dinghy to his own 45-foot pilot cutter Mischief, readied her for deep-sea voyaging, & recruited a crew for this most ambitious of private expeditions. Well past her prime, Mischief carried Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army officers & a retired civil servant, safely the length of the North & South Atlantic oceans, & through the notoriously difficult Magellan Strait, against strong prevailing winds, to their icy landfall in the far south of Chile. The shore party spent six weeks crossing the Patagonian ice cap, in both directions, returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken propeller. Edging north under sail only, Mischief put into Valparaiso for repairs, & finally made it home to Lymington via the Panama Canal, for a total of 20, 000 nautical miles sailed, in addition to a major exploration `first`-all here related with the Skipper`s characteristic modesty & bone-dry humour, & many photographs. ...

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` Mishmash` is a narrative poem about a funny mix up that happens amongst a group of animals. These animals refuse to stick to their own conventional sounds & take on the sounds of other animals instead. Here you will find kittens that `oink` like pigs & ducklings that `ribbit` like frogs! A truly delightful tale of animal mischief. The author Korney Chukovsky was a renowned Russian writer & poet. This book is illustrated by an award-winning artist Francesca Yarbusova, the wife & collaborator of Yuri Norstein. She was the co-creator of the animated films ` Hedgehog in the Fog` & ` Tale of Tales`
- the films that were declared to be the Best Animated Film of All Time. Also available in the Norstein & Yarbusova Collection
- a beautiful series of children`s picture books based on the art of famous Russian artists & animators Yuri Norstein & Francesca Yarbusova are: ` The Fox & the Hare` & ` The Hedgehog in the Fog`.

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Miskolc in a series of street plans of Hungary’s main towns from Cartographia in Budapest. The plans cover the whole town with its outer suburbs &, where appropriate, have an enlargement for the central area. All the plans have a street index. Map legend varies; in plans of larger towns or popular tourist destinations it usually

Includes:: English. Many plans also include additional

Features: insets with plans of larger satellite developments or villages, lists of sights and/or various municipal offices & facilities, etc. Some titles include on the reverse a road map of the town’s environs or the administrative province.* In this title: English map legend;* an enlargement for the city centre at 1:10, 000; a list of over 260 places of interest, services & facilities; a plan of Lillafüred; a road map of the Borsod
- Abadúj
- Zemplén province at 1:200, 00 (map legend in Hungarian only).





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Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before
- this is the most exciting debut novel published
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Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before
- this is the most exciting novel you will read this
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