Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:100, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 50m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 64 x 40km (40 x 25 miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals, plus show UTM coordinates for the map corners. Map legend is in Portuguese only.PLEASE NOTE
- EDITION DATES: some sheets at this scale date back to the 1950s or 1960s. For more recent editions please see IGP’s 1:25, 000 series where each 50K map is divided into four quarters. To see all the titles in the 1:100, 000 series please click on the series link.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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One of the titles in a series of large, indexed regional maps with fine, clear cartography. General relief is portrayed by hill-shading with selected spot heights without distracting from the other detail. The motorway network & recommended scenic routes stand out well from the background, but some may find minor local roads a little too faint. In some places exits from motorways are also rather lightly coloured. Intermediate driving distances are indicated throughout & special tourist routes are marked. The maps highlight picturesque towns & national parks, with a range of symbols marking campsites, youth hostels, museums, spas, various landmarks & places of interest, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. A separate index attached to the cover gives the postcode for each locality, including those beyond the German territory on sheets covering border regions.

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Sacramento in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States, with an enlargement showing in greater detail downtown Sacramento plus a road map of the surrounding region showing the road links with San Francisco, Napa & Sonoma Valleys, etc. Communities covered by this map include Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, , Rancho Cordova & West Sacramento.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked. ...

Sacramento in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed plan of downtown Sacramento, a road map of Sacramento & vicinity, plus a plan of the Sacramento International Airport. Communities covered by this map include Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Del Paso Heights, Elk Grove, Florin, Galt, Laguna West, Orangevale, Rancho Cordova, Rio Linda & West Sacramento. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

Britain is packed with places to visit that can be called 'sacred'. Many are tourist sites, such as Iona, Lindisfarne & Stonehenge. Many more are out-of-the-way pilgrimage destinations, druidic circles, holy wells or obscure islands that few people would find without this book. Some are only recognised as 'sacred' by people with a special interest: Karl Marx's tomb in Highgate cemetery or the island on Althorp where Princess Diana is buried. Sacred Britain journeys from pilgrimage sites with tombs of martyrs & scenes of medieval miracles to the remote islands of Iona, Bardsey & Lindisfarne, as well as to modern Buddhist, Hindu & Islamic shrines. It visits pre-historic stone circles & ancient chalk hill carvings such as the phallic Cerne Abbas giant. As well as sites of myth, legend, & apparition it covers shrines to philosophers & locations revered for their connections with art, music, literature, sport & crime. ...

We`ve all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener & more fertile than the world outside. Here the birds are slightly more exotic, slightly more confiding, the grass greener & the fruit sweeter. To know such a place, to love such a place, is part of being human. Sometimes it`s a place of myth, like the Garden of Eden. Sometimes it exists in fictional form, like Narnia or Shangri-La. Sometimes it comes in memories of a golden day in childhood, or in a glorious, doomed love affair. Sometimes it`s a real place that we daren`t go back to, for fear that it
- or we
- had changed. & just occasionally it`s a real place. A place where you leave a small piece of your heart & return as often as you can so as not to lose it. It`s a place of privilege. Simon Barnes found such a place when he woke in his first morning in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia to find elephants eating the roof of his hut. It was a homecoming, & he has been faithful to that passion ever since. Here he has known peace, danger, discomfort, fear & a profound sense of oneness with the Valley, with all nature & with the world. With the Valley he found completion. This book explores the special places of the mind & the world, with special reference to the Luangwa Valley & the glorious support of the Valley`s great artist, Pam Carr. It`s a book about the quest for paradise, & the eternal human search to find such a paradise everywhere.

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Seven years in the making, Vikram Chandra`s Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness & power. The novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh
- & into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Described by some a mixture of Dostoyevsky & Mario Puzo, Sacred Games is a labyrinthine work with moments of wonderful irony. An unbelievably dense book, filled with every aspect one can imagine from such a tale; the seamier sides of life are on display, with everything from sex, death, violence, corruption, even nuclear bombs working their way into the dense tapestry Chandra has created. A book you will find yourself coming back to, each time a different aspect making itself known.
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WINNER OF THE 1992 BOOKER PRIZE` Gripping... SACRED HUNGER covers a period between 1752 & 1765... it concerns the entangled & conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a Lancashire merchant, & Matthew Paris, a scholar & surgeon just released from prison for ”denying Holy Writ”... the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges, & it carries the reader deep into the history of man`s iniquitous greed... AS REGARDS ITS DRAMATIC BREADTH & ENERGY, NO RECENT DOMESTIC NOVEL HAS COME WITHIN A MILE OF IT`
- Anthony Quinn in the Independent
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As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites & villages with names linked to Israel`s ancestral homel&. These experiences in Benvenisti`s youth are central to this book, & the story that he tells helps explain how during this century an Arab landscape, physical & human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. Benvenisti first discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9, 000 natural features, villages, & ruins in Eretz Israel/ Palestine (his name for the Holy L&, thereby defining it as a land of Jews & Arabs). He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, & expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants. The resulting encounters between two people who claim the same land have raised great moral & political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor & impartiality. Benvenisti points out that five hundred years after the Moors left Spain there are sufficient landmarks remaining to preserve the outlines of Muslim Spain. Even with sustained modern development, the ancient scale is still visible. Yet a Palestinian returning to his ancestral landscape after only fifty years would have difficulty identifying his home. Furthermore, Benvenisti says, the transformation of Arab cultural assets into Jewish holy sites has engendered a struggle over the `signposts of memory` essential to both people. ” Sacred Landscape” raises troublesome questions that most writers on the Middle East avoid. The now-buried Palestinian landscape remains a symbol & a battle standard for Palestinians & Israelis. But it is Benvenisti`s continuing belief that Eretz Israel/ Palestine has enough historical & physical space for the people of both nations & that it can one day be a shared homel&. ...