Of the thousands of saints created by the Catholic Church many have a special relevance to British history, either through popular acceptance & worship or because of their direct involvement in the development of Christianity in the British Isles. This book tells the life stories of the more familiar saints, the associated folklore, the patronage, the emblems, the place names, the shrines & the festivals. There is a calendar of saints` days. ...

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. ...

Sakhalin at 1:500, 000 with the Kuril Islands at 1:1, 000, 000 on a large, double-sided map from Roskartografia with cartography of the Russia topographic survey. All place names in Cyrillic & a map legend is in Russian only. The map covers Sakhalin at 1:500, 000, dividing the island north/south. Contours are at 100m intervals, with spot heights & additional graphics and/or colouring to show swamps, rocks, different types of forests, etc. Road network

Includes:: field & forest tracks. Railway lines are shown with stations. Internal administrative boundaries are marked & towns indicate their administrative status. Also shown & oil or gas wells, power stations, weather stations, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 20

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Sakhalin at 1:500, 000 with the Kuril Islands at 1:1, 000, 000 on a large, double-sided map from Roskartografia with cartography of the Russia topographic survey. All place names in Cyrillic & a map legend is in Russian only. The map covers Sakhalin at 1:500, 000, dividing the island north/south. Contours are at 100m intervals, with spot heights & additional graphics and/or colouring to show swamps, rocks, different types of forests, etc. Road network

Includes:: field & forest tracks. Railway lines are shown with stations. Internal administrative boundaries are marked & towns indicate their administrative status. Also shown & oil or gas wells, power stations, weather stations, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 20’ & 30’ respectively. An enlargement at 1:200, 000 shows the environs of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in greater detail. Kuril Islands are shown in separate panels at 1:1, 000, 000, also divided north south. Cartography is similar to that for Sakhalin, with contours at 100m or 200m. Volcanic craters are also marked. Latitude & longitude lines are at 1º intervals. All place names are in Cyrillic alphabet & map legend is in Russian only.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: Supplies of all maps published in Russia are very irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles not in stock. If a title is currently out of stock, it may be advisable to choose an alternative publication.


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Sakhalinskaya Oblast Road Atlas in a series of detailed atlases of the administrative provinces of the Russian Federation from Roskartografia, with road information shown on a topographic base. Road network

Includes:: minor local roads, service stations, & distances between junctions. Colour coding distinguishes between federal roads & those which are the responsibility of local government. In many areas tracks & footpaths are included. The atlases also show railway lines, as well as inland waterways with locations of locks & the direction of the current. Cities & towns are marked according to the size of their population. Symbols indicate natural landmarks, post offices, hospitals & other facilities, museums, monuments, etc. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals & spot heights. Each atlas has an index &

Includes:: an administrative map of the region & a key to Russian road signs. In some atlases coverage is provided only for the areas with roads & not for the whole province. Please see individual descriptions or images of the area coverage supplied with each title. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet & the text, including map legends, is in Russian only. In this title: coverage is mostly confined to the main Sakhalin isl&, with only selected parts of the Kuril Islands covered. Also

Includes:: basic street plan of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: Supplies are very erratic & no delivery date can be guaranteed for titles currently not in stock. Also, we occasionally receive copies with different covers or in different sizes to those indicated on our website. But the cartography & basic information remains as described above.






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Map No. 3020, Sakrivier, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Topographic survey of Faroe Islands at 1:20, 000 prepared by the Danish national mapping agency Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen. The islands’ topography is vividly presented by contours at 5 metre intervals, enhanced by relief shading plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of terrain or vegetation (scree, boulders, etc). The maps show all the detail expected of the topographic mapping at this scale & have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1’ & 2` respectively. Map legend is in Danish only. The maps are available either separately or as sets of five of more sheets, each covering the main island group: Vagar, Sandoy, Suduroy, Nordoyar, Streymoy & Eysturoy. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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. ...

Sal in the Cape Verde archipelago on a detailed, GPS compatible, contoured map at 1:100, 000 from AB Kartenverlag with street plans of its two towns: Espargos & Santa Maria annotated with tourist facilities & places of interest. On one side is a map of Sal at 1:100, 000 with altitude colouring & spot heights, showing the island’s roads & tracks, together with a street plan of Espargos & an enlargement covering the centre of Santa Maria. On the reverse is a map of the whole of Santa Maria, including the holiday complex west of the town centre. The map & the plans have latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 2’ & 30’’ respectively. The plans indicate various tourist facilities including hotels, restaurants/bars, petrol stations, etc. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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