Round Oak in 1901 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 covers a busy industrial area south-west of Dudley, including Round Oak, Woodside, Harts Hill, & Netherton Hill. Features include Round Oak Works with sidings, Brierleyhill Iron Works, Woodside Iron Works, Hartshill Iron Works, Woodside area, Dudley Canal with Two Locks Line & old canal route, GWR railway with Round Oak station, Harts Hill & Woodside station, tramways, several mineral railways, Level New Furnaces, Fens Pool, Hollyhall, Pensnett Canal, Netherton Old Furnaces, Netherton Hill area with St Andrew`s church, Netherton Old Collieries, old coal shafts, etc. On the reverse is an extract from a 1906 railway timetable for the London-Worcester-Wolverhampton line. 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. ...

I thought that the opportunity to backpack around the world had passed me by. I was mid-thirties with a mortgage & recently married. After 12 years with the same global organisation my career was finally moving in the right direction & I was not brave enough to give up a good job. Then came the shock news that the car plant was closing & I realised that my moment had come...' As The Clash once sang, ' Should I stay or should I go now?' These were the words reverberating through my head on the day that Vauxhall Motors announced it would close its Luton car plant. This was the moment of decision. Stay with the company in another factory or take the redundancy cheque & head for the hills? It was time for serious travel, not two weeks in Tenerife so we went to South America, Africa & Fiji before settling in Australia. In Ecuador we tried to save the Amazon & in Tanzania we tried saving ourselves from psychotic taxi drivers. In Zimbabwe we were chased by wildlife, in Zanzibar we were chasing sunsets. In Bolivia we searched for the remains of Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid & ended our trip finding miners searching for silver deep underground. Getting lost in Stone Town & trekking through Peru was all part of the adventure. In Africa we slept under the Milky Way & had a wake up call on the Zambezi. In the South Pacific we slept metres from the beach &, after a night flight, we woke in Australia to start a new life. ...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. Shaklin possesses a religious power which inspires everyone he meets to a new faith & hope for humanity. As Cutter`s business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin`s fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity. Though he struggles to believe Shaklin is indeed divine, the friendship will transform Cutter`s life. ...

If the weather outside is frightful, draw up a chair to the fire, get the chesnuts roasting, & find an echo to every mood in this collection of funny, surprising, moving & magical festive stories from some of our greatest authors. Including stories from Laurie Lee, Truman Capote, Kenneth Graham, John Cheever, Sue Towsend, Nancy Mitford, Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, John Julius Norwich, P.G. Wodehouse & Stella Gibbons, among many others. ...

Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne`s Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor of ” Paris-Soir, ” Cocteau sets off with his very own ` Passepartout` as companion on a picaresque voyage some sixty-three years after his fictional predecessor. He finds that the journey has lost none of its hazards & adventures as he races around the globe in tramp-ship, railway & ocean liner. Observing & recording the frenetic change of scenes from Athens & Alexandria to Bombay, Rangoon, & Yokohama & finally across the United States, Cocteau`s witty, subjective & sometimes outrageous narrative gives this unique travel-memoir a camp & stylish spin. ...

Roundhay Park in 1906 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 covers the village of Roundhay, on the north side of Leeds, & much of Roundhay Park. Coverage stretches from North Park Grove eastward to Elmet Hall, & from Park Farm & Mansion Hotel southward to Oakwood Lane. Princess Avenue runs through the map, with tramway. Features include Lady Wood, Park Avenue, Gledhow Hill, The Holmsted, the eastern edge of Lidgett Park, Carr Head, refreshment room & other features in the park (boat house, lavatories, shelter, band stand etc), Waterloo Lake, Elmet Hall, St John`s church, etc. A good selection of street directory entries for the neighbourhood is on the reverse, including The Avenue, The Drive, Leeds & Wetherby Road, Oakwood Avenue & Old Park Road. 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. ...

Increasingly disillusioned with his government & the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, & even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried. ...

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. ...

Roussillon Pays Cathare Guide Vert *FRENCH Edition* in Michelin’s Green Guide series covering France, with all the regions available either in English editions or in French versions. Drawing on Michelin’s long experience, the guides are renowned for their individual ‘star rating’ of sights & attractions. Listings in each guide are organized alphabetically, allowing readers to access information quickly. Towns are given overall star rating, with their sights & attractions also rated individually. Where appropriate, a street plan of the town centre is provided, indicating car parks & accompanied by an index of main streets & a list of sights highlighted on it. For many towns a recommended sightseeing tour is also marked on the plan. Entries for important churches are accompanied by detailed plans. Recommended car tours have overview maps showing road numbers & locations of the sights. Where necessary, the guides give opening hours & contact details. Many entries have an “ Address Book” section with Michelin’s recommendations for where to stay & where to eat. Each guide has a very extensive introductory section with practical information & pre-trip tips, chapters on history, art & culture (particularly strong on architectural styles, explained by excellent drawings), fauna & flora, etc. Fold-out flaps in the book covers provide an overview of the recommended sights and/or car tours.* * French language guides* have a larger number of individual entries than included in the corresponding English titles, as well as more exhaustive descriptions, with wider coverage of local history and/or famous people connected with a given location.* * English language guides* have more recommendations for car tours. The “ Address Book” sections often include shopping suggestions. ...

Route 66 The Mother Road Road Atlas from ITMB in a 64-page, A5, paperback format with mapping of the whole route at 1:1, 840, 000 & numerous enlargements presenting city transit maps or more detailed street plans. The whole route from Chicago to Los Angeles is first shown on 12 pages at 1:1, 840, 000. Given the scale of the maps, the course of the northern part of the route is not easy to follow, but from Texas westwards, with fewer local roads, the mapping becomes clearer. This is followed by enlargement showing in more detail the course of Route 66 across Chicago (with city centre street plan), St. Louis, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Las Vegas & Los Angeles (with street plans of central LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills & central Santa Monica, plus LA metro diagram). Also provided is an enlargement of the San Diego area with a plan of the city centre. The section with mapping of the whole route also contains several notes on its history, printed in rather small size font so requiring good eyesight. ...