Point It is an extremely useful visual dictionary displaying 1200 items through colour pictures & highlighted phrases. Crammed with photographs of everything you might ever wish to point at in an effort to make yourself understood in a foreign country, it is also very small & light, ideal for that already overweight rucksack you are taking on your travels. Simple, self explanatory & clear, it is essential for first time tourists or experienced travellers alike. The book itself is very light (the size of a passport) & fits easily in your pocket. Pictures in the book cover most scenarios & would be most useful in countries where reading out from a phrase book isn't practical. A highly recommended companion for any trip abroad. ...

Be understood anywhere with this practical pocket size traveller’s language kit. Point It is a little 72 pages booklet containing over 1, 300 pictures of anything you will ever need to ask. Find the picture for what you want to say, from food & transport to shopping & leisure. This compact booklet also features a small reference world map & a small printed ruler. Whether you are heading around the world or to a remote destination, don’t forget this lifesaver. If you can’t say it, point it! ...

Reportage resists easy definition & comes in many forms
- travel essay, narrative history, autobiography
- but at its finest

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Point Reyes cape, a popular recreational area of the Marin County approx. 30 miles north-west of San Francisco on a waterproof & tear-resistant hiking & biking map from Map Adventures. Similar in style to the publishers’ maps of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area & Mt. Tam, the map is contoured & provides detailed classification of hiking & biking trails plus other useful information for visitors. ...

High quality relief shaded topographic trekking map. Trails are clearly marked with distances between junctions shown in miles. Clear contours at 80ft intervals, vegetation information & symbols to show the location of various features & facilities of use to hikers, such as ranger stations & campsites. To ensure durability the map is printed upon special waterproof plastic paper.

Includes:: latitude & longitude & UTM grid markings

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Pointe du Raz
- Presqu`île de Crozon
- Ile d’ Ouessant
- les Abers region of western Brittany in a series of GPS compatible,


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This anthology of the best adventure writing to emerge from the 20th century

Includes:: such adventures as

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A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane... From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. ...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home... Everyone blamed Emily`s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn`t receive the letter until June 28th...by which time Emily was already dead... ...