Laminated waterproof edition of a detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Poole, Dorchester, Weymouth & Swanage (showing part of the South West Coast Path). Edition B4; Publication date June 2012 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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Purbeck area of Dorset on a special cycling map at 1:46, 500 from Heritage House highlighting 12 recommended cycle routes presented on the reverse with profiles, grading according to difficulty, etc. The map covers an area extending from the ferry linking Purbeck with Poole westwards beyond Lulworth Cove, & from the coast inland to Briantspuddle & Wareham Forest. Recommended cycle routes are highlighted & other markings indicate byways & bridleways, route numbers of the National Cycle Network, steep hills, danger points, etc. Also clearly marked is the Ministry of Defence Lulworth Ranges danger area. Symbols indicate camping & caravan sites, pubs & restaurants/tearooms, visitor centres, etc. British National Grid is indicated by margin ticks. On the reverse are details & brief descriptions of the 12 recommended cycle routes: distance & time, grading, suitability for children, plus a route profile. ...

A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses & chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own. ...

Timothy Mo`s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thail&. Pure covers epic expanses of time & is told through narrators who range from fanatical zealots to decorated Oxbridge dons. Everything that Mo`s readers expect abound in this long-awaited novel: versatile style, memorable characters, insight into those tormented by dual loyalties & the ability to handle the weightiest of themes with a light touch. By examining the cultural wars of the past & present, Pure`s themes are among the most important of the day. ...

The Amsterdam Hilton houses one of the most remarkable Italian restaurants: Roberto`s. For more than 20 years the team of Roberto Payer & chef Franz Conde have been cooking delicious & honest Italian food. For the first time people can now make these great recipes at home. With menu suggestions & tips for family dinners & aperitifs this book shows how you can surprise your guests with a special meal. Moreover Roberto shows us the different Italian regions where he gets his ingredients. Every recipe, accompanied by stunning photography, is a true feast. ...

Simon Cardoso has been dead for thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, finds him in a New Jersey diner. Testimonies confirmed that Simon had been one of the thousands of victims of Argentina`s military regime, executed for being a `subversive`; yet this man is identical to the man she lost three decades ago. While skirting around the mystery, Eloy Martinez masterfully peels away layer upon layer of history
- both personal & political. & just as Simon`s disappearance comes to represent the thousands of disappearances that were such a common occurrence during the dictatorship, so Emilia`s refusal to accept his death mirrors the country`s unwillingness to face its reality. The final work of the late Martinez, Purgatory is his most moving, most autobiographical novel.
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Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara is a prostitute & a murderer, on the run from brutal captors
- men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets
- traitorous crimes of passion & revenge committed long ago, during the country`s brutal Soviet years. Both women have survived lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth. A haunting, intimate & gripping story of suspicion, betrayal & retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression & European war.

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A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of ` Freedom` & ` The Corrections` Young Pip Tyler doesn`t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she`s saddled with $130, 000 in student debt, that she`s squatting with anarchists in Oakl&, & that her relationship with her mother
- her only family
- is hazardous. But she doesn`t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she`ll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with the Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world
- including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn`t underst&, & the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right & wrong. Jonathan Franzen`s Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, & murder. The author of The Corrections & Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters
- Californians & East Germans, good parents & bad parents, journalists & leakers
- & he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet & as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring & penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.




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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom & The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn`t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she`s saddled with student debt & a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she`ll ever have a normal life. Then she meets Andreas Wolf
- internet outlaw, charismatic provocateur, a man who deals in secrets & might just be able to help her solve the mystery of her origins.
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Purley in 1910 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map provides good coverage of this residential area south-west of Croydon. Purley Junction station is in the south-eastern corner with the village centre nearby. Spacious roads with villas then cross much of the map, including Furze Lane, Furze Hill, Foxley Lane, Rose Walk & Peaks Hill. Russell Hill, with the Warehousemen & Clerks & Drapers Schools, is also on the map. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...