The original story of falling for France, ” Perfume from Provence” was first published in 1935 & became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome & George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king`s librarian & archivist & famous historian of the British Army. Tempted by a better climate & the cheaper cost of living, they left England & found a stone house amid olive groves, high in the hills above Nice. Almost at once they were bewitched by the landscape & especially their garden
- delightful terraces of vines, wild flowers, roses & lavender
- & by the charming, warm-hearted & wily Provencals. Winifred`s witty account of life with stonemasons, craftsmen & gardeners as they extend the house is an enchanting read.

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Profound & poignant, Perfume River is an examination of relationships, personal choice, & how war resonates down the generations. It is the finest novel yet from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Quinlan & his wife Darla teach at Florida State University. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee & solitary jogging & separate offices. For Robert & Darla, the cracks remain below the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert`s own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. William Quinlan, Robert & Jimmy`s father, a veteran of World War II, is coming to the end of his life, & aftershocks of war ripple across all their lives once again when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father`s bedside. & a disturbed homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a devastating impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family. ...

For a brief, shining moment the city of Pergamum set out to rival Athens in splendour & artistic prominence; the world`s most famous architects, sculptors & intellectuals gathered there, & its library is said to have contained 20, 000 volumes. From 281 to 133 BCE, five generations of the Attalid dynasty ruled western Anatolia as far south as the Mediterranean coast from Pergamum, but when King Attalos III died it was discovered that, uniquely in history, he had willed his kingdom to Rome. The city continued to thrive as a centre of healing & became a bishopric, mentioned in the Apocalypse of John among the seven churches of Asia Minor as the place `where Satan`s throne is`
- probably a reference to the great altar, now on display in Berlin`s Pergamon Museum. Today, modern Turkish Bergama, a modest market town north of the city of Izmir, attracts thousands of visitors to the nearby ancient city of Pergamum.
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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. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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Picardie
- Baie de Somme Guide Vert *FRENCH Edition* in Michelin’s Green Guide series covering France, with all the regions available
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Périgord
- Quercy region of France, or what in English is usually referred to as The Dordogne, presented by Michelin at 1:150,
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Périgord Noir
- Haut-Quercy region in a series of GPS compatible, contoured TOP 75 maps at 1:75, 000 from the IGN, highlighting
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Street plan of Périgueux, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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When 11-year-old Caitlin discovers a shrimp-like alien creature on the shores of her island home, she takes responsibility for teaching it about the world. Mostly, this just involved stopping little Perijee from eating everything! Caitlin becomes increasingly close to her alien friend, treating him like a brother. There`s only one problem
- Perijee won`t stop growing. Then the authorities try to hunt him down & through his fear, Perijee disappears & starts causing trouble. Caitlin must leave home & travel across the country to try & convince Perijee to stop destroying everything before it`s too late.
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