Reunion on a detailed, contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:75, 000 from the IGN with a vivid presentation of the island’s topography, hiking routes, places of interest & tourist facilities, plus a street plan of Saint-Denis. The island’s topography is presented by contours at 200m intervals, vividly enhanced by bold relief shading, plus plenty of names of geographical features & colouring or graphics to show forests, brushwood, marshland & areas liable to flooding. Boundaries of protected areas are marked. Road network indicates unsurfaced roads &

Includes:: cart tracks & local paths. Driving distances are marked on main & many secondary routes & scenic roads are prominently highlighted. The map also shows both local hiking paths & the island’s two GR long-distance walking trails. A range of symbols indicate tourist accommodation (holiday villages, campsites & mountain shelters), numerous sport & recreational facilities including beaches & diving sites, local markets & handicraft, etc. The map has a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines. Map legend

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Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga & his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, & uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her
- by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his `wife number one`, by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher & especially by Lketinga`s mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, & once again bringing to life the atmosphere & characters in the Masai village.
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Reunion on a topographic survey at 1:25, 000, published by the Institut Géographique National in Paris, on six contoured, GPS compatible maps with hiking routes, campsites & mountain refuges, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals with bold relief shading enhancing the presentation of the terrain. In addition to the usual information shown on topographic surveys at this scale, the maps also indicate different types of vegetation (woodlands, brushwood, orchards, sugar cane or banana plantations, etc). Road network indicates sections with no access to motorized traffic & car parks. Railways are shown with stations. An overprint highlights both waymarked walking routes, including the GR long-distance footpaths, & other interesting hiking trails, indicating difficult passages. Bridle paths are also marked. Symbols indicate various types of accommodation (campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, shelters), various recreational facilities (climbing sites, riding centres, h&-gliding sites, water sports, golf-courses, etc), marinas & anchorage, etc. Towns & locations of interest are prominently highlighted. The maps are GPS compatible with UTM grid lines drawn at 1km intervals. Map legend

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The sixth volume in this high-impact series captures 2012 in over 330 powerful photos. The book is organized into four sections representing the four quarters of the year. The images cover the full range of news reporting politics, commerce, conflict, accidents & disasters, the environment, faith & festivities, entertainment, celebrity & lifestyle. Succinct captions summarize the story behind each image. Witness features in each chapter present powerful, in-depth photo-essays from around the world. An introduction explains in the photographers own words the events & approaches that lead to spectacular photojournalism. Like the previous Our World Now volumes, this is a book that consistently packs an emotional punch: spectacular, moving, hard-hitting, at times even funny. This highly successful series has built to become an indispensable visual record of our times, with over 100, 000 copies now sold worldwide. ...

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. ...

When Jerry Moffatt burst onto the scene as a brash 17-year-old, rock climbing had never seen anyone like him before. Fiercely ambitious, even as a boy Moffatt was focussed on one thing: being the best in the world. This is the story of his meteoric rise to stardom, & how he overcame injury to stay at the top for over two decades. Top sport-climber, brilliant competitor & a pioneer in the new game of bouldering, Moffatt`s story is that of climbing itself in the last thirty years. Yet Jerry Moffatt is more than a dedicated athlete. Travelling the world to fulfil his dreams, his story is a compelling & often hilarious account of the climbing community with all its glories, dangers & foibles, as well as the story of a true sporting legend. ...

Revelstoke National Park at 1:50, 000 in a series of topographic survey maps of selected areas of British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies from ITMB with cartography from Canada’s national survey organization. Most sheets are printed on light, waterproof & tear- resistant plastic paper. Whilst the Canadian Department of Natural Resources (previously Canada Map Office) decides whether to provide updated pre-printed editions of its survey mapping or switch to print-on-demand only, in 2007 it began co-operating with ITMB on this new series of maps with cartography of the Canadian topographic survey & additional tourist & recreational information provided by ITMB. The maps are double-sided, with either two 1:50, 000 maps combined in one title, or a 1:250, 000 map supplemented by more detailed coverage at 1:50, 000. * In this title:* legend

Includes:: roads by classification, viewpoints, points of interests, lakes, dams, picnic areas, waterfalls, wilderness camps, telephones, snowmobiling, swimming, parking, hiking, fishing, mountain climbing, mountain biking, wildlife viewing, tourist information, & more. The map is printed in light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper.

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Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature & contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) & in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties & early sixties. In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short ` The Scarlatti Tilt` to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of ` An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film`, Brautigan`s stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories & characters resonating in our heads long after they`re gone. ...

Moonie & Mei Ling are looked after by their grandmother, an indomitable matriarch, ruthless manager of ' The Double Happiness' restaurant & fount of endless titbits of Chinese mythology. Feared & renowned in the neighbourhood
- & stubbornly attached to the giant meat cleaver she keeps in her handbag
- eccentric Grandma Wong weaves a magical world of surreal stories & ancient wisdom around her two wayward granddaughters. However, the girls' lives are also being drawn forward by the inexorable pace of assimilation & the ever-beckoning American dream, & as fascinated as they might be by Buddhist philosophy, they are also cool, hip American girls with straight-A grades & scores to settle
- with the neighbourhood boys who tease them & with the unforgiving media, which tells them that they should look like Barbie dolls & not like Chinese girls.


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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. ...