Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m 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 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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 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. ...

Invaluable life advice from the one & only Dr. Seuss, now in a luxurious mini-hardback gift format. The one & only Dr. Seuss ...

Sevastopol (Sebastopol) street plan from Kartografija Kiev, with additional coverage of Balaklava, in a Cyrillic edition but with English map legend. An enlargement shows the city centre of Sevastopol at 1:12, 000 & a road map of south-western Crimea is also provided. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. A wide range of symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, e.g. hotels, cultural institutions, places of worship, markets, petrol stations, etc. An enlargement shows the city centre of Sevastopol at 1:12, 000 in greater detail, & a separate inset covers Balaklava at the same scale of 1:20, 000 as the main map. On the reverse is a street index, plus extensive lists of various services & places of interest. Also included is a road map showing south-western Crimea with the coast to Yalta at 1:300, 000, plus notes on the history of Sevastopol Map legends for the plan & the road map include English. All additional text is in Ukrainian only. ...

In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge & romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil & change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-Napoleon & Eugenie, & the First World War & De Gaulle. Interweaving historical narrative with telling detail, this is a fluent & definitive work of social & cultural history. ...

Seven Days is a story of adventure & spirituality as father & son travel the ” Rue du Bonjour” across the pilgrim route of the high Pyrenees. It is a journey with a writer grappling with some of the questions of modern life, his love for the mountains, his beliefs & aspirations & examples set both by his father & the enigmatic fellow traveller they meet in a remote auberge who comes to symbolise & shadow their sojourn, a man he nicknames Hemingway, although he is neither a writer nor an American.A wonderfully engaging work of travel, discovery, & contemplation by an exciting new voice. ...

Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house`s absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay & investigate. Seven Dead is an atmospheric crime novel first published in 1939. ...

When Lance Armstrong fought back from life-threatening cancer to win the 1999 Tour de France
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