Paraguay on an indexed double-side map 1:800, 000 from ITMB with an enlargement for the environs of Asuncion plus a street plan of the capital’s city centre highlighting numerous hotels & various places of interest. The map divides the country east/west with a good overlap between the sides. Altitude colouring shows the topography, with swamps & marshes & national parks or other protected areas also marked. Road network gives distances on main routes & indicates locations of petrol stations. Symbols highlight places of interest, including locations with tourist accommodation & medical facilities. Also marked are internal administrative boundaries with names of the province. The map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 1º. An enlargement presents the environs of Asuncion in greater detail including access to resorts on Lago Ypacarai. The centre of the capital is shown on a clear street plan highlighting hotels & various places of interest. ...

Celebrity, identity & sexuality
- the three poles of our fame-obsessed society, each one a magnet for secrets & lies. Despite
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For 175 years the British have lived with the railway, & for a long while it was a love affair
- the grandeur of the Victorian
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Captain Fields` Pattern
- Bar Parallel Rule 400mm Divided with protractor markings (double reading) & compass points Manufactured
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Captain Fields` Pattern
- Bar Parallel Rule 500mm Divided with protractor markings (double reading) & compass points Manufactured
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In 1989, the memorable year when the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his early morning run finds a corpse lying on a park bench & alerts the authorities. This classic police-procedural scene opens an extraordinary novel, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans
- Hungarians, Jews, Germans, & Gypsies
- across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century. The social & political circumstances of their lives may vary richly, their sexual & spiritual longings may seem to each of them entirely unique, yet Peter Nadas` magnificent tapestry unveils uncanny, reverberating parallels that link them across time & space. Three unusual men are at the heart of ” Parallel Stories”: Hans von Wolkenstein, whose German mother is linked to dark secrets of fascist-Nazi collaboration during the 1940s, Agost Lippay-Lehr, whose influential father has served Hungary`s different political regimes for decades, & Andras Rott, who has his own dark record of dark activities abroad. They are friends in Budapest when we eventually meet them in the spring of 1961, a pivotal time in the postwar epoch & in their clandestine careers. But the richly detailed, dramatic memories & actions of these men, like those of their friends, lovers & family members, range from Berlin & Moscow to Switzerland & Holl&, from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, & of course, across Hungary. The ever-daring, ever-original episodes of ” Parallel Lives” explore the most intimate, most difficult human experiences in a prose glowing with uncommon clarity & also with mysterious uncertainty
- as is characteristic of Nadas` subtle, spirited art. The web of extended dramas in ” Parallel Stories” reaches not just forward to the transformative year of 1989 but back to the spring of 1939, with Europe trembling on the edge of war; to the bestial times of 1944-45, when Budapest was besieged, the final solution devastated Hungary`s Jews, & the war came to an end; & to the cataclysmic Hungarian Revolution of October 1956. But there is much more to ” Parallel Stories” than that: it is a daring, demanding, & very moving exploration of humanity at its most constrained & its most free.


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One of the titles in a series of maps from the Israeli Survey, in Hebrew
- with some Roman alphabet equivalents, providing coverage
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Parand New Town with a detailed street plan from the Gitashenasi Institute showing its central districts, plus & administrative map of the whole town & road map showing road & rail connections to Tehran & its international airport. The plan at 1:6, 000 gives names of main streets in both Farsi & Latin alphabets, & indicates various public facilities. On the reverse is an overview plan with the town ...

Parang Mountains at 1:60, 000 in a series of detailed contoured maps covering popular hiking areas of Transylvania published by Dimap, one of Hungary’s leading publishers specializing in mapping of that region. The maps show local hiking routes & provide tourist information such as campsites, places of interest, etc. Many titles include street plans and/or English language descriptions of recommended hiking trails.* In this title:* hiking map with contours at 50m intervals, highlighting several local footpaths & trails with their waymarking signs. Symbols mark various types of accommodation, springs, waterfalls, rock faces, places of interest, etc. An inset shows the gorges in the central part of the map at 1:30, 000 in greater detail. The map has no geographical coordinates. On the reverse are notes describing the area & the hiking routes identified on the map, plus black & white maps of the region & of the town of Petrosani.* Map legend & all the notes include English.* ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...