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. ...

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. ...

This is a beautiful guide celebrating the humble sausage. Sausage is a country-by-country guide to the best fresh & cured sausages in the world. It is all about the much-loved banger, over 330 different varieties are pictured with information on flavour, where to buy & where they originate from helping you seek out the best charcuterie. You can try your hand at making your own sausages, salami & cured meats with step-by-step instructions & enjoy each region's most famous sausages with 48 classic recipes such as fabada & cassoulet. Sausage is a unique gift for any sausage lover & a sizzlingly good read. ...

One of the titles in the topographic survey of the coastal part of French Guiana, published as an extension of IGN’s survey of France to its overseas departments. Contours are at 5m intervals & the maps indicate 13 different types of vegetation & land use, including rain forest, brushwood, savanna, high & low mangrove, rice fields, orchards & plantations, etc. The extent of changes in the coastline in the recent decades is indicated. The maps have a UTM grid & latitude/longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend

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Keith Lowe`s ” Savage Continent” is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed & pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape & murder were rife in the days, months & years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, ” Savage Continent” is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness & terror. Praise for ” Savage Continent”: ” Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured & provocative. A compelling & plausible picture of a continent physically & morally brutalized by slaughter”. (” Dominic Sandbrook”, ” Sunday Times”). ” Excellent”. (” Independent”). ” Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew & our fathers would rather forget. Lowe`s transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors...you won`t sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind”. (” Scotsman”). Keith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, & has often spoken on TV & radio, both in Britain & the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed ” Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg”, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife & two children. ...

The No.1 bestselling novel & Richard & Judy Summer Read: a haunting tale of murder, love & lost innocence for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Jed Rubenfeld Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues & classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own -- & a secret message, too, for those with eyes to read it. Young scholar Adam Strickland is just such a person. Arriving in 1958, he finds the Docci family, their house & the unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, & the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate. Before this mysterious & beautiful summer ends, Adam will uncover two stories of love, revenge & murder, separated by 400 years! but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa`s cursed past? ...

It is 1704 &, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging on to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met. With little expectation of happiness, Elisabeth is stunned to find herself falling passionately in love with her husb&, infrantryman Jean-Claude Babelon. But Babelon is a dangerous man to love. Witness to Elisabeth`s devotion is another of his acolytes, Auguste, a young boy despatched to act as a go-between with the `redskins`. When both Elisabeth & Auguste find their love challenged by Babelon`s duplicity, the consequences are devastating. It is longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010. ...

Here is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping. Journalist Jennifer Jordan chronicled the individual stories of the five courageous women who have climbed K2, the most fearsome mountain in the world. Climbers call K2 ” The Savage Mountain.” It is not quite as tall as Everest, but it is far more dangerous, located at the border of China & Pakistan, in the deadly Karakoram range, which has the harshest climbing conditions & weather of any place in the world. Ninety women have climbed Everest, but only five female climbers have ever reached the summit of K2 alive. Three of these women died on the way back down the mountain, & the other two have died since their climb. Because, these five women, who defeated the most ferocious of all mountains, have lost their own voices, ” Savage Summit” told their tragic & compelling stories. The terror & triumph of K2 was revealed through the stories of the few women who have succeeded in climbing it. The women in these stories are forced to deal with harsh conditions from the mountain, & from the men climbing around them, often being treated unfairly or discriminated against in their struggle to get to the summit.” Savage Summit” also attempted to answer tough questions: do female climbers rely too much on their male climbing partners? Are women prepared for the physiological & emotional rigors of K2? Are female climbers, because of the publicity & sponsorship opportunities afforded them, climbing the mountain without the proper training, endangering their own lives & the lives of those who climb with them? &, if women are as capable of men of climbing this most deadly peak, who will be next to attempt the long trek to the summit? ...

A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically & romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularise & radicalise
- against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple
- a documentary filmmaker & a blogger
- engage in a series of cerebral & sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics & a fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters & the reader through dazzling & digressive intellectual byways.


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Savannah & the Georgia Coast in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...