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. ...

Silverdale in 1898 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. Coverage stretches from Silverdale station eastward to Knutton Iron Works. Features include St Luke`s church, NSR railway with Silverdale station, old shafts, Wall Plantation, Rosemary Hill Tile Works, Milbank Colliery, Cemetery, Knutton Manor Colliery, Knutton Farm, Knutton Forge Junction, Newcastle Workhouse, etc. On the reverse is an 1893 directory of Silverdale. 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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

Silvertown in 1893 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. ...

Silvertown in 1914 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. ...

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. ...