This superb high quality water bottle is an absolute necessity for anyone going on hikes, treks & expeditions. SIGG water ...

Indexed street plan with contours showing the topography, & an enlargement for the town centre. The plan extends to include the nearby Albesti. Detail

Includes:: railways, footpaths, pedestrian zones & bridges, & symbols show further features e.g. churches, hotels, markets, filling stations, museums, post offices, car parks.A larger scale inset of the town centre at 1:3, 000 shows further detail including many individually numbered buildings. Another inset gives an overview of the region around the town at 1:200, 000. Street index is on the reverse. Map legend

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72-page easy to follow & clearly laid out Sight Reduction Logbook, with tabulated pages for recording the observations of both morning & evening stars. The easy to follow format allows for the computation of a 7 star fix at morning or evening stars in typically 12-15 minutes from taking the observation of the last star to plotting the position on the chart. For each observation there is a separate plotting sheet to record all of your findings. ...

Five years after ” Findings” broke the mould of nature writing, Sort of Books presents ” Sightlines”. The outer world flew open like a door, & I wondered
- what is it that we`re just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to ” Findings”, prize-winning poet & renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headl&, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote. Written with her hallmark precision & delicacy, & marked by moments in her own life, Sightlines offers a rare invitation to pause & to pay heed to our surroundings.
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Japan is a country with a unique & somewhat mysterious culture. It is a land of diversity & contradictions. You will find ancient customs, cherished & unchanged for over thousands of years, as well as cutting edge technology & the latest gadgets. In Japan you ll be amazed with the charmingly courteous way travellers are treated & the delicacy with which Japanese food is prepared & served. It is a country where the majority of its population lives in vast cities like Tokyo & Yokohama. But it is also a country with stunning landscapes made up of thousands of islands lying on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Marc Popelier`s life-long love for the country has crystallized into the pages of this book. It is a perfect introduction to Japan & will surely tempt anyone to visit this fascinating country. ...

One of the titles in a series of double-sided topographic maps with hiking routes & tourist information. Cartography is identical to the standard topographic survey of Germany, with contours at 10m intervals. Extensive overprint highlights numerous local footpaths & long-distance hiking routes, indicating waymarking. Cycling routes, mountain bike centres & trails, & cross-country ski routes are also marked. Extensive range of symbols highlight sport & leisure facilities, various types of accommodation, places of interest, tourist railways, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves are marked. The maps have a 2km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. The maps also have lists of contact details of various organizations & facilities within the region, plus brief descriptions in German only.

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Few things exercise the mind of a Telegraph reader more than the misuse & abuse of the English language. Indeed, so ever vigilant for crimes of grammar, spelling & punctuation is this redoubtable breed that it is never off duty, keeping a beady eye peeled for linguistic lapses wherever it travels. The fruits of these efforts make for disturbing viewing: menus exhorting diners to sample the delights of ` Lavander Frog Porridge`, ` Roast Bowel` or the metaphysically curious ` Evil Water`; retailers happy to trade under names such as ` Chiap Tatt Enterprise` & ` Chancy Investments`; or the optician who didn`t blink at the prospect of calling himself the ` Wong Eye Specialist`. Whether garbled by online translators or run over rough-shod by Britons who really should know better, our mother tongue is truly in a parlous condition. Thankfully the Telegraph & its readers are on hand to expose these misdemeanours to the cleansing power of ridicule, publishing the most egregious & amusing examples in the weekly article Sign Language. In this book, to aid in their valiant cause, we present the very best sightings from the year gone by. ...

A Daily Telegraph bestseller, this collection of the most inappropriate, confusing, poorly translated, & simply mind-boggling signs from around the world, is sure to raise a few laughs as well as eyebrows. For several years now readers of the Daily Telegraph have contributed to a weekly feature by sending in photographs of menus, health & safety warnings, road signs, advertisements, headlines, & personal columns—anything in which the language has gone egregiously, hilariously, &, usually, unintentionally wrong. The published selection of the very best – or worst
- images attracts more than 300, 000 online visitors every week, & thousands of submissions from around the world. This book collects the very best of Sign Language, many never previously published online. Guaranteed to elicit horrified chuckles.
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One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in his hand & an overloaded rucksack. His aim was to walk the 119 miles from London to Birmingham along the proposed route of HS2. Needless to say, he failed. Over the course of ten days of walking, Jeffreys meets conservationists & museum directors, ery farmers & suicidal retirees. From a rapidly changing London, through interminable suburbia, & out into the English countryside, Jeffreys goes wild camping in Perivale, ees murderous horses in Oxfordshire, & gets lost in a land ll site in Buckinghamshire. Signal Failure weaves together poetry & politics, history, philosophy & personal observation to form an extended exploration of people & place, nature, society, & the future. In part, Signal Failure is the story of the author`s multiple shortcomings
- his inability to understand the city he lives in, to forge a meaningful relationship with his home-county hometown, to emulate those great nature writers he admires so much, to put up a tent or read a map. It is also a wide-ranging critique of humanity`s most urgent failures: of capitalism, of community, of the city & the suburbs, of architecture & agriculture, of bureaucratic democracy, &, in the end, of our age-old failure to nd our place in the world we live in.
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Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers & cracks his knuckles & tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson. A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American heiress.. . Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects & motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths & Maigret & the Fortuneteller. ` Compelling, remorseless, brilliant` John Gray ` One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.. . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories` Guardian `A supreme writer.. .unforgettable vividness` Independent Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels & short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerl&, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. ...