Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Tilly can`t believe it when her best friend Matty is asked to be a bridesmaid. In Tilly`s favourite daydream, she`s wearing the most beautiful bridesmaid dress & walking down the aisle behind a bride. The one wedding she`d really love to attend is her own mum & dad`s
- but it seems like that`s never going to happen. So Tilly decides to make her own dream come true, & puts a notice in the local shop, advertising her services as a bridesmaid. & to her amazement, she gets a reply...A fabulous, funny & moving story about finding family & friendship in all sorts of places, from the mega-bestselling author of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather & Katy.
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Tilly can`t believe it when her best friend Matty is asked to be a bridesmaid. In Tilly`s favourite daydream, she`s kitted out in the most beautiful bridesmaid dress, walking down the aisle behind a beautiful bride. The one wedding she`d really like to attend is her own mum & dad`s. But as that`s never going to happen, it`s time for Tilly to make her own dream come true
- & put her bridesmaid services up for hire...A fabulous, funny & moving story about the power of friendship from the mega-bestselling author of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather & Katy. It is full of beautiful illustrations by much-loved illustrator, Nick Sharratt.
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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. ...

1997 & Elizabeth`s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution
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Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a `settler revolution` that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West & its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zeal&, & South Africa. Between 1780 & 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, & their wealth & power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, including the sudden rise of mass transfer across oceans & mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to emigration, the emergence of a settler `boom mentality`, & a late flowering of non-industrial technologies -wind, water, wood, & work animals
- especially on settler frontiers. This revolution combined with the Industrial Revolution to transform settlement into something explosive
- capable of creating great cities like Chicago & Melbourne & large socio-economies in a single generation. When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests & their metropolises, London & New York, actually tightened as rising tides of staple products flowed one way & ideas the other. This `re-colonization` re-integrated Greater America & Greater Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day. The ` Settler Revolution` was not exclusive to the Anglophone countries
- Argentina, Siberia, & Manchuria also experienced it. But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate frontier & metropolis most successfully, & it was this that gave them the impetus & the material power to provide the world`s leading super-powers for the last 200 years. This book will reshape understandings of American, British, & British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, & the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be written without it.


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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. ...

Moleskine's unisex shoulder bag, the Reporter Bag, is the smallest in the Moleskine ' Travelling' collection & is very flexible for every-day use. External features include: an elastic closure mechanism, a rigid base for standing the bag vertically, an adjustable strap with concealed sliding buckle & a single flap, as well as being water repellant. Internal features include: a lightly padded black lining, the ability to fit any laptop with a screen size up to 13 & 1 pocket with a zipper. The Reporter Bag is made from matte black polyurethance on a woven support & has a molded base made from soft-touch polyurethane. ...

` Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, & what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning & tireless legwork, is Hersh`s warmth & humanity. Essential reading for every journalist & aspiring journalist the world over` John le Carre In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school & university
- while running the family`s struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America`s premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, & no small amount of controversy. Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity & defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times & the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military & political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, & the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington & New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr., from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad. Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh`s life & career, Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement & darkness.
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With ” Letters From America”, Alistair Cooke became one the greatest reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. ” Reporting America” presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy & Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings & the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Almost all the material will be new to Cooke fans
- transcripts of his legendary ” Letters from America”, long-forgotten reports in the Guardian (whose correspondent in New York he was for 25 years) & other freshly discovered writings- they`re all here.
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