Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:25, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, an attractive alternative to Spain’s national topographic survey at this scale, offering a much larger area per sheet with extensive tourist information & vivid presentation of vegetation & land use. These large, detailed maps have contours at 10m intervals enhanced by hill shading & fine colouring and/or graphics to portray of vegetation or land use (different types of woodlands, marshl&, vineyards, crops, etc). An overprint highlights waymarked local & long-distance GR footpaths plus CT cycling routes. Also highlighted are picturesque locations such as villages, isolated buildings or natural features. A very wide range of symbols indicate various facilities, places of interest & recreational sites: tourist information centres, campsites & other rural accommodation, cultural heritage, vineries, wildlife observation areas, viewpoints & beauty spots, sites for recreational pursuits including horse riding, water sports, paragliding, etc The maps are divided by the publishers into three types: Administrative Units, Natural Protected Areas, & Geographical Areas, as shown on our grid for this series. Coverage by each sheet varies; most maps present an area of 30 x 23km (19 x 14km approx). The maps have a 1km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Excellently presented topographic map legend is in Catalan only but the legend for the tourist information & the road network

Includes:: English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Puigmal
- Vall de Núria
- Ulldeter area of the Catalan Pyrenees presented by Editorial Alpina at 1:25, 000 on a contoured &

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Puigsacalm
- Bellmunt in an extensive & very popular series of walking maps from Editorial Alpina covering the Pyrenees, Catalonia
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Puka & Environs area of northern Albania at 1:50, 000 in a series of GPS compatible contoured maps from Huber Verlag showing hiking & cycling routes, climbing sites, tourist accommodation, etc. Descriptions cover 24 cycling routes & four hiking trails. Maps in this series, prepared in cooperation with the Albanian Alps Associations & the National Society for Mountainous Studies, have contours at 50m intervals, with spot heights, graphic relief for exposed rocky areas & colouring showing woodlands. Recommended hiking & cycling routes are prominently marked & cross-referenced to descriptions on the reverse side. Interesting towns & villages are highlighted & symbols indicate hotels & other tourist accommodation, sites for climbing and/or kayaking, museums, archaeological remains, medical facilities, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. On the reverse are detailed descriptions of the recommended hiking & cycling trails accompanied in some titles by route profiles. Map legend & all the text include English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Puka Prefecture at 1:110, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Chizuru Akitani is the daughter of the famous violinist & Japanese Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani. Overweight & hafu (her mother is white), she is relentlessly tormented at school. When her mother dies suddenly & the cruelty at school only intensifies, Chizuru snaps in a moment of blind rage & fatally stabs a classmate in the neck. After seven years of institutionalisation, Chizuru flees Japan for a new life in the United States. She renames herself Rio, graduates from nursing school, marries & has a daughter, determined to keep her past a secret. But when a mysterious package arrives on her doorstep announcing the death of her father, she feels compelled to return to Japan for the first time in twenty years. Back in her homel&, long-kept secrets are suddenly unearthed & Rio`s dark past is thrust back into her life. Full of sensual descriptions of Japan, its culture, & its language, Pull Me Under is a fierce & suspenseful exploration of home, identity, & the limits of forgiveness. ...

There isn`t much drama in Olive Town. The highlights of Cissy Sissney`s days are the letters from her old schoolteacher, Miss Loucien, describing her adventures on board an old showboat with the Bright Lights Theatre Company. If only life were full of such adventure for Cissy, too. But then diphtheria breaks out in Olive Town, a silo crushes Cissy`s home, & Miss May March agrees to take Cissy & classmates, Kookie & Tibbie, to stay with Miss Loucien until Olive town is safe again. The ramshackle crew on board the Sunshine Queen sail along the shoals & shimmer of the Numchuck River, performing plays for the towns scattered along the shore. But sometimes, on the treacherous Missouri River, danger levels rise too high even for the resourceful Bright Lights. Then only the bravest, & grandest, in the land can hope to keep the final curtain from falling. The award-winning author, Geraldine Mc Caughrean, captures the spirit of adventure & the power of imagination in this rip-roaring read. ...

This is an exciting storybook with four embedded tracks & a pull-back train toy that will amuse little children again & again. You can pull-back the train to start its `engine` then place it on the tracks & watch it zoom across away from the city station, across bridges & fields, over a long viaduct until it reaches its destination at the zoo. There`s so much to look for, talk about & spot on every page, it will make a gift present, & is guaranteed to delight & entertain anyone who loves trains. ...

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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The characters in Pulse Points live in small dusty towns, glittering exotic cities & slow droll suburbs; they are mourners, survivors & perpetrators. In the award-winning ` Aokigahara`, a woman travels to the sea of trees in Japan to say goodbye. In ` Coarsegold`, a woman conducts an illicit affair while her girlfriend works the overnight motel shift in the middle of nowhere. In ` Dogs`, Foggo runs a gang of bored, cruel boys with a scent for fresh meat. In ` Pressure Okay` a middle-aged man remembers his departed wife & navigates the long game of grief with his adult daughter. ...