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. ...

Following the great success of ” Khmer Mythology” which examined the narratives & symbolism behind the relief carvings of Angkor Wat & other temples, the author returns to Angkor Wat to focus in depth on the wealth of information contained in the almost 1, 000 square metres of magnificent bas-reliefs, the corner pavilions & the pediments. ...

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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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&. ...

” You have seen the Television series, now read the book. Join adventurer, photographer & television personality Ryan Pyle, as he spends months exploring & photographing Western Chinas remote Sacred Mountains in an effort to better understand these most sacred Tibetan regions. His human-powered adventure is one of the ages as he explores the remote provinces of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan & Yunnan.” ...

Join adventurer & renowned photographer, Ryan Pyle, as he spends months exploring & photographing Western Chinas remote Sacred Mountains in an effort to better understand these most sacred Tibetan regions. His human-powered adventure is one of the ages as he explores the remote provinces of Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan & Yunnan. ...

A work of staggering beauty that showcases the life work & extraordinary talents of Jonathan & Angela Scott: creators of Big Cat Diaries. Their sheer talent as photographers & the unique empathy their work reveals with their subjects is the stuff of legend & without rival
- as evidenced in the thirty books they have published so far. However, this is the first book created to celebrate two lives dedicated to their art & their passion
- the nature & wildlife of Africa.

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The UK, with its rich history & varied landscape, boasts a wealth of sacred places, many of them in the care of the National Trust. Some have become centres for pilgrimage for the contemporary visitor: as a focus for the new age understanding of earth mysteries, as a means of experiencing the unique serenity & atmosphere of dedicated buildings & as sites traditionally used as centres of worship. The list is extraordinarily diverse, but what links them is a strong sense that, in addition to their intrinsic beauty
- or perhaps because of it
- they are also places which seem to hold a special spiritual resonance. This book provides an illustrated guide to some of the most beautiful & atmospheric sacred sites in the care of the National Trust. A general introduction sets the collection in its wider historical & religious context, along with an understanding of how the Trust's conservation work is preserving them for posterity. The featured sites are illustrated by high-quality photographs & artworks revealing key alignments & underlying structure & design, along with extended captions explaining their particular significance & history.A detailed map shows the distribution of the various sites across the UK & the suggested link between some of them, providing a practical guide for the visitor as well as an inspirational sourcebook. Featured sites include: Avebury; The Fame Islands; Glastonbury Tor; Hailes Abbey; The Lake District; Lavenham Guildhall; Sandham Memorial Chapel; The Giant's Causeway; St Michael's Mount; Sutton Hoo; & White Horse Hill, Uffington.

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