Mykonos & Delos in the Mc Gilchrist’s Greek Islands series focuses primarily on cultural tourism for the visitor who wishes to understand more about the art, history & architecture of the islands. The series contains no photographs, but has specially drawn maps for each island (66 in total) & site plans for every major site (57 in total), together with thoroughly comprehensive textual information. Each guide also recommends a small number of places to stay & eat selected for their simplicity & unpretentiousness. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Myrtle Beach & The Grand Strand area on the coast of South Carolina on a double-sided, indexed street plan from Map Supply Inc, with an additional road map extending coverage further inland to cover the rest of the Horry County. The plan highlights various facilities & places of interest, including hiking trails, locations of campsites, beaches, marinas & boat ramps, golf courses, etc. Two locations covered by the road map, Anyor & Bucksport, are also shown in greater detail on street maps. Coverage

Includes:: Atlantic Beach, Briarcliffe Acres, Calabash, Carolina Shores, Conway, Forestbrook, Garden City, Little River, Loris, North Myrtle Beach, Red Hill, Socastee & Surfside.

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Myrtle Beach in South Carolina on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. The map consists of a series of panels covering the coastal communities of the state: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Calabash ...

John Hare is a star author & one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world
- a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration & discovery: broad & topical appeal. The Gobi is the largest, coldest & driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3, 000-year-old mummies, dinosaur bones & areas where no man has set foot. It is also the last place on earth where the wild Bactrian camel clings to survival, its fragile habitat threatened by poachers & development. With the conservation of this elusive creature in mind, John Hare was inspired to venture into the wildest parts of the Chinese Gobi on an expedition during which they crossed a hundred miles of sand dunes, unexplored in recorded history. Several weeks into the journey, Hare & the team discovered, in two unmapped valleys, a population of wildlife with no experience of man. Interwoven with the account of his remarkable journey, Hare tells, for the first time, the story of an epic migration made by Kazakh nomads in flight from Chinese communists & describes the historic & current tensions between the Chinese & the indigenous Uighur population of Xinjiang.A blend of history & high adventure, discovery & conservation, ” Mysteries of the Gobi” is a unique & compelling account of modern-day exploration.
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A moving & beautifully researched story about camels, lost princesses & the strength of wisdom & knowledge, stunningly illustrated by P.J. Lynch. It is the second tale in a trilogy from acclaimed storytellers Mal Peet & Elspeth Graham. This tale begins with a disgruntled camel, desperately trying to protect a little baby from a violent desert storm whipping up all around him. He is rescued by Issa
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- who takes the child in, naming her Mariama. She becomes Issa`s family &, as he begins to lose his sight, his eyes. Many years later, a mysterious stranger arrives at their doorstep, a stranger who will change both their lives for ever... Another mesmerizing tale from the creators of the award-winning ” Cloud Tea Monkeys”. A beautiful & touching tale, illustrating the bond between a child & the man who brought her up like a daughter. Both deliciously exotic & yet portraying warmly familiar & universal truths. This edition will be jacketed.

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Twelve mysteries. Twelve authors. One challenge: can YOU solve the crimes before the heroes of the stories? These are twelve br&-new short stories from twelve of the best children`s crime writers writing today. These creepy, hilarious, brain-boggling, heart-pounding mysteries feature daring, brilliant young detectives, & this anthology is a must for fans of crime fiction & detection, especially the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, The Roman Mysteries & The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow. The Crime Club are twelve UK-based authors who are mad about crime fiction. Clementine Beauvais, Elen Caldecott, Susie Day, Julia Golding, Frances Hardinge, Caroline Lawrence, Helen Moss, Sally Nicholls, Kate Pankhurst, Robin Stevens, Harriet Whitehorn & Katherine Woodfine can be found anywhere there is a mystery to be solved, a puzzle to be cracked or a bun to be eaten, & they are always ready for the next puzzling case. ...

The next time you visit Olympia, take a good look around & see if you think it would be possible to murder someone in the middle of the crowd there without being seen... The new Comet was fully expected to be the sensation of the annual Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly, in the middle of the dense crowd of eager spectators, an elderly man lurched forward & collapsed in a dead faint. But Nahum Pershore had not fainted. He was dead, & it was his death that was to provide the real sensation of the show. A post-mortem revealed no visible wound, no serious organic disorder, no evidence of poison. Doctors & detectives were equally baffled, & the more they investigated, the more insoluble the puzzle became. Even Dr Lancelot Priestley`s unrivalled powers of deduction were struggling to solve this case. ...

Mystery in the Channel is a classic crime novel with a strikingly modern sub-text. The story begins with a shocking discovery. The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the water, & on closer inspection, sees a body lying on the deck. When members of his crew go aboard the yacht, they find not one male corpse but two. Both men have been shot, but there is no sign of either the murderer or the pistol. The dead men, it quickly emerges, were called Moxon & Deeping, & they were chairman & vice-chairman respectively of the firm of Moxon General Securities, one of the largest financial houses in the country. Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard is called in, reporting directly to the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Mortimer Ellison. French soon discovers that Moxon`s is on the brink of collapse. One & a half million pounds have gone missing, & so has one of the partners in the business. Moxon & Deeping seem to have been fleeing the country with their ill-gotten gains, but who killed them, & how? French faces one of the toughest challenges of his career, & in a dramatic climax, risks his life in a desperate attempt to ensure that justice is done. ...

` The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.` On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit & the table laid for tea
- but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.
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