New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, & Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine
- Finn; his wife,
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New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, & Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine
- Finn; his wife,
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Siracusa on an indexed street plan at 1:8, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint, with an enlargement presenting the medieval lanes of the island of Ortigia in greater detail & clarity at 1:4, 000. 39 monuments within the city itself plus 15 on Ortigia are highlighted. A separate inset extends the coverage to Belvedere. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

Siracusa Province at 1:150, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Siracusa Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Map No. 10005, Sirdal, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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Sirdalsheiane area in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:50, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 100K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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Norman Douglas, one of the 20th century`s great travellers in Italy, was for most of his life inextricably, passionately, connected to the Bay of Naples. This breathtaking sweep of sea & coastline
- dominated by Vesuvius & with Pozzuoli & Sorrento standing sentinel
- was Douglas` first experience of Italy. It was here, on the island of Capri, that he died, some 55 years after first buying a villa in Naples. ” Siren Land”, Douglas` first travel book, is a homage to a part of the world that captivated him more than any other. Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape & history of the region, Douglas writes with knowledge & an irrepressible exuberance of the past & the present, of legends & archaeology, folklore & daily life, patron saints, local ghosts, wine & the wind. As the summer draws to a close, Douglas` prose becomes suffused with a melancholy tinged with excitement at what still remains to be discovered: `relics of Roman rule, of old Hellas, or medieval romance... These are the delights of Siren Land`. ` What makes ” Siren Land” exceptional is the quality of the telling. Weaving scholarship, impressions, fact & fantasy into an intricate fabric as enchantingly entertaining & full of human interest as the best of fairy tales or ancient myths. One of the most memorable books of its genre`
- Mark Holloway, in his introduction to ” Siren Land”.


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WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHI stopped going to work. I went missing. We still live in a world where you can disappear if you want to. Or even if you don`t. Detective Aidan Waits is in trouble After a career-ending mistake, he`s forced into a nightmare undercover operation that his superiors don`t expect him to survive. Isabelle Rossiter has run away again When the teenage daughter of a prominent MP joins Zain Carver, the enigmatic criminal who Waits is investigating, everything changes.A single mother, missing for a decade Carver is a mesmerising figure who lures young women into his orbit
- young women who have a bad habit of disappearing. Soon Waits is cut loose by the police, stalked by an unseen killer & dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. How can he save the girl, when he can`t even save himself?* Reader reviews: ` It is an utterly brilliant debut novel; dark, gritty, menacing & meaningful.` *****` Compulsive reading, so well written that even the gruesome cruelty & sense of helplessness in a dark world seemed right.`***** ` Knox is always one-step ahead, deceiving the reader & creating a sexy, stylish world always with danger around every corner.` ****** The bestselling debut from the winner of the Sky Arts Writer of the Year Award, the next big name in crime fiction
- Joseph Knox.

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Sirimilik National Park in Nunavut at 1:325, 000 in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at various scales from Go Trekkers highlighting recreational possibilities including trekking and/or snowshoe trails, canoeing & kayaking routes, campgrounds, warden stations, etc. Cartography of each title varies according to the terrain of the national park, but the maps are contoured & have spot heights plus, as appropriate, graphics to show wetlands, relief shading in mountainous areas, etc. All the titles are GPS compatible with either a UTM or latitude/longitude grid. Presentation of trails, recreational facilities such as campgrounds, access to the park by road or air, etc, also varies according to what each park has to offer & where it is situated. Each map also

Includes:: notes about the park.

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