A detailed, colour survey map from the Portuguese Military Survey's M782 series. Each map in this series has contours at 20m intervals with supplementary contours at 10m intervals. One major advantage the military mapping has over the civilian equivalent is that the legend is in English as well as Portuguese. This legend

Includes:: roads, railways, buildings, spot heights, vegetation type, fluvial information, scree, dunes, churches, ruins, etc. Latitude & longitude ticks are show at 10' intervals. Recently revised sheets also have a UTM grid at 100m intervals. Vertical Datum: Mean Sea Level at Cascais Harbour Projection: Transverse Mercator

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Ardennes Recreational Maps at a scale of 1:25, 000 enable you to discover the Ardennes from junction to junction, each associated with a locality, through a network of hiking, cycling or riding paths. The network of mini walks consists of suggested routes with kilometre distance marked showing field boundaries & urbanised built up areas. Contour markings are at five metre intervals. The map legend is in English, French, Dutch & German. You can scan QR codes on the map for details about the respective locality or upload GPX files of the proposed routes via the provided website. ...

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her `memories of an African childhood` in ” The Flame Trees of Thika” & ” The Mottled Lizard”. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities
- from the pioneer Lord Delamere & Baroness Blixen to Jomo Kenyatta
- blend with her superb description of the social, cultural & political upheavals of the time. ` An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the readers momentum`
- ” Sunday Times”. ` She evokes it all lovingly but astringently, especially the glittering, often scandalous life of the young aristocrats who lived in Happy Valley`
- ” Daily Express”.



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A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must cross in order to escape those from whom he`s fleeing. One night he crosses paths with an old goatherd & from that moment nothing will ever be the same for either of them. Out in the Open tells the story of a boy in a drought-stricken country ruled by violence. A closed world where names & dates don`t matter, where morals have drained away with the water. In this landscape the boy, not yet a lost cause, has the chance to learn the painful basics of judgement, or to live out forever the violence with which he grew up. ...

Karen Blixen`s ” Out of Africa” is the lyrical & luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. `I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills... Up in this high air you breathed easily... you woke up in the morning & thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.` From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours & ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, & her experiences & friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. ” Out of Africa” is the story of a remarkable & unconventional woman, & of a way of life that has vanished for ever. ...

` When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find that it is the same in all her music.` From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours & ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm & her experiences & friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable & unconventional woman & of a way of life that has vanished for ever. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers. ...

The lodges, all designed to provide maximum style & comfort, also offer visitors an opportunity to get to the heart of the country by travelling amongst its people & its animals. The unforgettable experience is portrayed through amazing photographs & informative text to make this both an entertaining read as well as an object to treasure in its own right. ...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence & barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, & promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress & proud of their imperial command over the globe, only to become embroiled in the bloodshed of World War I, which brought an end to their optimism & gave rise to competing democratic, communist, & fascist ideologies. He shows how the 1920s witnessed renewed hope & a flourishing of modernist art & literature, but how the decade ended in economic collapse & gave rise to a second, more devastating world war & genocide on an unprecedented scale. Jarausch further explores how Western Europe surprisingly recovered due to American help & political integration. Finally, he examines how the Cold War pushed the divided continent to the brink of nuclear annihilation, & how the unforeseen triumph of liberal capitalism came to be threatened by Islamic fundamentalism, global economic crisis, & an uncertain future.A gripping narrative, Out of Ashes explores the paradox of the European encounter with modernity in the twentieth century, shedding new light on why it led to cataclysm, inhumanity, & self-destruction, but also social justice, democracy, & peace. ...