Rovigo Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

” When you`re in the middle of the adventure, you just have to live it. When you`re on an expedition, you put your head down & battle through. Storytelling happens after the finish line.... now that time has come [and] Julia can tell her story. The full story.”--from the foreword by Bear Grylls*** An incredible account of one woman`s record-breaking row across the Atlantic Thirty-two-year-old Julia Immonen & four other women take on a challenge completed by fewer people than have climbed Mount Everest or gone into space: row three thousand miles, unaided, from the Canary Islands to Barbados.” Row for Freedom ”chronicles that dramatic journey, detailing the grueling, peril-filled crossing, which broke two world records, as it weaves together Julia`s search for hope & purpose against a background of relationships scarred by violence. As Julia`s physical & emotional treks unfold, you also learn about the plight of the thirty million victims of the modern-day slave trade that serves as the motivation for her row. Be inspired by Julia`s self-discovery & her team`s triumph in one of the most formidable physical quests ever undertaken. ...

' Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut'
- Ernest Hemingway Over a boozy Sunday
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` Always do sober what you said you`d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut`
- Ernest Hemingway Over a boozy Sunday
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”? Boat races & regattas are mainstays of the British summer
- but where did these races originate & how have they become so important
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In this gripping first-hand account, four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the ”last firsts” remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the dramatic impacts of global warming in the high Arctic, which provide an ironic opportunity to draw attention to the growing urgency of climate change. Along the way, the team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity & unpredictability & bears witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat & inhabitants, while weathering gale-force vitriol from climate change deniers who have taken to social media to attack them & undermine their efforts. ...

Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, & lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower Mick Dawson endured whilst attempting to complete one of the World`s ` Last Great Firsts`. In this nail-biting true story of man versus nature, former Royal Marine commando Dawson, a Guinness World Record-holder for ocean-rowing & high-seas adventurer takes on the Atlantic & ultimately the North Pacific. It took Dawson three attempts & a back-breaking voyage of over six months to finally cross the mighty North Pacific for the first time. Dawson & his rowing partner Chris Martin spent 189 days, 10 hours & 55 minutes rowing around the clock, facing the destruction of their small boat & near-certain death every mile of the way, before finally reaching the iconic span of San Francisco`s Golden Gate Bridge. Dawson`s thrilling account of his epic adventure details how he & Chris propelled their fragile craft, stroke by stroke for thousands of miles across some of the most dangerous expanses of ocean, overcoming failure, personal tragedy & everything that nature could throw at him along the way. ...

Wayne Mc Lennan tells the story of his utterly extraordinary life through a series of adventures after he leaves his home town in Australia, desperate to avoid following his father & grandfather into the mines. Travelling from the Australian outback to London, to Spain, Mc Lennan has skippered a fishing boat off the coast of Nicaragua, become a professional boxer, mined for gold in Costa Rica & made a gruelling six-month journey
- by rowing boat
- along the 1, 000 miles of coast from Seattle to Alaska. He tells the stories of the compelling characters he encounters along the way: men who refuse to give in to the conformity & comforts of modern life, choosing instead lonely &, often, dangerous occupations. A wonderfully vivid, ` Hemingway-esque` memoir by a talented & honest writer.

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Rowlands Gill in 1895 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the village of Rowlands Gill, today at the southern end of Gateshead Borough. In 1895 this was scarcely a village & there was little here other than a row of houses, a station on the NER Consett Branch, & the Towneley Arms. To the north is the Lily Drift mine. The River Derwent meanders through the map & to the east is Gibside with its grounds & mausoleum chapel, by James Paine. The map stretches east to Gibside Hill Head. On the reverse is part of sheet 5.12, extending coverage west to Victoria Garesfield & its colliery, with the Victoria Garesfield Colliery Railway. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Rowlands Gill in 1895 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 Rowlands Gill, today at the southern end of Gateshead Borough. In 1895 this was scarcely a village
- there was little here other than a row of houses, a station on the NER Consett Branch & the Towneley Arms. To the north is the Lily Drift mine. The River Derwent meanders through the map & to the east is Gibside with its grounds & mausoleum chapel, by James Paine. The map stretches east to Gibside Hill Head. On the reverse is part of sheet 5.12, extending coverage west to Victoria Garesfield & its colliery, with the Victoria Garesfield Colliery Railway. 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.
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