Carefully hand silk-screened silver continents, red longitude & latitude markings, & black nomenclature give the Silver Earthsphere a rich, high-tech look. Crafted of cast clear acrylic, these spheres offer you a contemporary way to understand geopolitical relationships. Silver Earthspheres present the most up-to-date cartography with current country boundaries, capitals, major cities, & bodies of water. Spheres are available in different sizes. ...

Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism & tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there really like? In this enchanting & highly original book Martin Fletcher presents a portrait of Northern Ireland utterly at odds with its dire international image. He paints a compelling picture of a place caught in a time warp since the 1960s, of a land of mountains, lakes & rivers where customs, traditions & old-world charm survive, of an incredibly resourceful province that has given the world not just bombs & bullets but the Titanic, the tyre & the tractor, a dozen American presidents, two prime ministers of New Zealand & a Hindu god. He meets an intelligent, fun-loving, God-fearing people who may do terrible things to each other but who could not be more welcoming to outsiders. He describes a land of awful beauty, a battleground of good & evil, a province populated by saints & sinners that has yet to be rendered bland by the forces of modernity. ...

A package of 100 Silver Map Tacks. Packaged in a re-closable box. Round headed with sharp steel points, these pins are perfect for arts & crafts. Mark the places you have been or the places you want to go with these high quality, durable pins. Suitable for the office, home or school. ...

The Silver Spoon, the most influential & successful Italian cookbook of the last 50 years, is now available in a brand new revised edition. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic, selling over one million copies in eight editions. Considered essential in every household, it continues to be one Italy`s the most popular wedding presents. The Silver Spoon was first conceived & published by Domus, Italy`s famed design & architectural magazine. A select group of cooking experts were commissioned to collect hundreds of traditional Italian recipes & make them available for the first time to a wider modern audience. In the process, they updated ingredients, quantities & methods to suit contemporary tastes & customs, at the same time preserving the memory of ancient recipes for future generations. They furthermore included modern recipes from some of the most famous Italian chefs, resulting in a style of cooking that appeals to the gourmet chef & the amateur enthusiast alike. A comprehensive & lively book, its uniquely stylish & user-friendly format makes it accessible & a pleasure to read. The new edition features new introductory material covering such topics as how to compose a traditional Italian meal, typical food traditions of the different regions, & how to set an Italian table. Its over 2000 recipes are illustrated with newly commissioned photographs & contains a new section of menus by celebrated chefs cooking traditional Italian food. ...

Think of the fortune waiting for you. July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins & Long John Silver`s daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers. The lure of hidden treasure & the thrill of the ocean odyssey soon gives way to terror as the Nightingale reaches its destination. Treasure Island is not uninhabited as it once was. ...

Walking Guide for Silverdale & Arnside in a series from Cicerone. Guides are a smaller format & illustrated with OS mapping & colour photography. Very thorough route descriptions are given, with walk profile boxes summarizing essential data such as distance, height gain, grade, walking time, Ordnance Survey mapping references, & accommodation & parking options. Cicerone Press are one of the UK’s most well known & respected publishers of guidebooks for the outdoor enthusiast. Easily distinguished by their convenient pocket size, these books have been a favourite amongst walkers, climbers & cyclists for many years. Their guides for European & international destinations are highly popular amongst English-speaking tourists. The books are of the same high standard as the UK guides, with clear maps, detailed route descriptions & plentiful background information. The range is extensive & often they produce the only available English language guide available for a particular area or long distance route. ...

In Silverl&, award-winning travel writer Dervla Murphy’s intrepid midwinter journey takes her from Moscow to the Russian Far East. Travelling by slow train, Murphy journeys through the world’s most desolate & beautiful mountain ranges to a remote land of lynx & elks, indigenous tribes & shamans, reindeer broth & taigaberry pie. While her less fortunate encounters included a bear & armed robbers, she also experiences great hospitality from the local people along her route who openly share fascinating tales of their own difficult life stories in this unrelenting landscape over a samovar of sweet tea. ...

Silvermine & Hout Bay areas at 1:20, 000 on a double-sided map printed on waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. The title is part of a series of high quality, detailed walking maps from Slingsby Maps, with excellent cartography & plenty of tourist information. Contour lines are drawn at 10m intervals with additional altitude colouring. Roads indicate restricted access. Footpaths are highlighted & show waymarked routes & sections not recommended or dangerous. Symbols indicate information for visitors to the area: car parks, view points, signposts, public toilets, picnic areas, places of interest, recreational & sport facilities, etc. Both UTM grid lines at 200m & latitude/longitude lines at 1 ...

Silvermine & Hout Bay areas of the Cape Peninsula at 1:20, 000 on a double-sided map printed on waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. The title is part of a series of high quality, detailed walking maps from Slingsby Maps, with excellent cartography & plenty of tourist information. Contour lines are drawn at 10m intervals with additional altitude colouring. Roads indicate restricted access. Footpaths are highlighted & show waymarked routes & sections not recommended or dangerous. Symbols indicate information for visitors to the area: car parks, view points, signposts, public toilets, picnic areas, places of interest, recreational & sport facilities, etc. Both UTM grid lines at 200m & latitude/longitude lines at 1’ intervals are drawn across the map & GPS waypoints are provided for important road junctions, etc. All the maps in this series were researched & drawn by Peter Slingsby
- renowned environmental educator & cartographer.
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Silvertown in 1867 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Three versions have been published for this area around & to the south of the Royal Victoria Dock including the many wharves of Silvertown; just the waterfront of the south shore of the Thames is shown, including Angerstein`s Wharf. The 1867 map shows the area at an early stage, with the Victoria Dock quite recently opened (in 1855), the graving dock, also Silvertown works of the India Rubber Gutta Percha Co & St Mark`s church. The 1893 & 1914 maps show much more development with the Odam`s Wharf, Clyde Wharf, Hall`s Wharf, Plaistow Wharf, Manhattan Wharf, Prince Regent`s Wharf, & Tay Wharf, also various works or factories: the sugar refineries of Henry Tate & Abram Lyle whose firms merged in 1921, at Crescent Wharf the chemical works of Brunner Mond, later an explosives works which exploded in 1917. Other features include North Woolwich Road & many warehouses, railway sidings, & a few cramped streets of terraces. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...