Sittingbourne in 1897 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. 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. In this title: the map covers much of the twin towns of Sittingbourne & Milton, with coverage stretching from Chalkwell eastward along Watling Street to East Street. Features include railway with station, paper mill, Crown Quay, Holy Trinity church, St Michael's church, Tide Mill, Milton Quay, Chalkwell Tannery, Barrow School, Ufton Court (at foot of map), Bayford Court etc. On the reverse is a list of private residents from a 1905 directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Sittingbourne in 1897 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. The map covers much of the twin towns of Sittingbourne & Milton, stretching from Chalkwell eastward along Watling Street to East Street. Features include railway with station, paper mill, Crown Quay, Holy Trinity church, St Michael`s church, Tide Mill, Milton Quay, Chalkwell Tannery, Barrow School, Ufton Court (at foot of map), Bayford Court etc. On the reverse is a list of private residents from a 1905 directory. 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. ...

Siurana area at 1:10, 000 in a series of GPS compatible maps from Editorial Piolet with cartography based on Spain’s civilian topographic survey overprinted with hiking routes & other tourist information. The overprint also indicates several climbing areas. Hiking maps in the Editorial Piolet series, unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, have contours at 10m intervals, enhanced by relief shading and/or altitude colouring, & provide very detailed presentation of the terrain & local road network. An overprint highlights hiking routes, distinguishing between short local routes, longer PR paths & long-distance GR routes. Symbols mark campsites & mountain huts or refuges, various places of interest, climbing or other recreational areas, etc. Each title has a UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed & Paris was liberated. In this masterly & highly individual account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the combatants
- each encounter related from the point of view of a different nationality. While transcending conventional military history, it provides an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second World War`s most crucial campaigns.
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The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis & Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never been able to digest the land it swallowed in 1967. However big its army, it will never be at peace or feel secure until the future of this land is settled. Thirty-six years after the end of the six days of fighting, after thousands more deaths & the failure of years of negotiation to try to reach a political settlement, Israelis & Palestinians are fighting once again on the streets in the West Bank & Gaza. It is still a low-level conflict, but if another full-blown Middle East war breaks out, its roots will lie in those six days in June 1967. Drawing on his experiences as the BBC`s former Middle East correspondent, & building on extensive original research & interviews with some of the key participants, Jeremy Bowen uses his vast array of contacts to weave together a completely convincing & compelling account, hour by hour, of the 1967 war between Israel & Egypt, Jordan & Syria. As insightful as the best modern history writing & as gripping as fiction, this is a major debut by an author with superb media contacts. ...

In “ Six Degrees”, environmentalist & commentator Mark Lynas outlines a hypothetical world of 100 years’ time, with a global average temperature rise of 6 degrees. Far from loose conjecture, Lynas explains scientific predictions & trend anayses to see where humanity may be leading, & paints a disturbing picture of nothing less than the collapse of civilisation Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenl&, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa`s drought establish a new colony on Greenland`s southern tip, one of the few inhabitable areas not already crowded with environmental refugees. Vast pumping systems keep the water out of most of Holl&, but the residents of Bangladesh & the Nile Delta enjoy no such protection. Meanwhile, in New York, a Category 5-plus superstorm pushes through the narrows between Staten Island & Brooklyn, devastating waterside areas from Long Island to Manhattan. Pakistan, crippled by drought brought on by disappearing Himalayan glaciers, sees 27 million farmers flee to refugee camps in neighbouring India. Its desperate government prepares a last-ditch attempt to increase the flow of the Indus river by bombing half-constructed Indian dams in Kashmir. The Pakistani president authorises the use of nuclear weapons in the case of an Indian military counter-strike. But the biggest story of all comes from South America, where a conflagration of truly epic proportions has begun to consume the Amazon… Alien as it all sounds, “ Six Degrees” is not science-fiction; nor is it sensationalist. The title, ‘ Six Degrees’, refers to the terrifying possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years. This is the first time we have had a reliable picture of how the collapse of our civilisation will unfold unless urgent action is taken. Most vitally, Lynas`s book serves to highlight the fact that the world of 2100 doesn`t have to be one of horror & chaos. With a little foresight, some intelligent strategic planning, & a reasonable dose of good luck, we can at least halt the catastrophic trend into which we have fallen
- but the time to act is now.
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` She`s a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches.` Hilary Mantel A Spectator Book of the Year Goethe claimed to know what light was. Galileo & Einstein both confessed they didn`t. On the essential nature of light, & how it operates, the scientific jury is still out. There is still time, therefore, to listen to painters & poets on the subject. They, after all, spend their lives pursuing light & trying to tie it down. Six Facets of Light is a series of meditations on this most elusive & alluring feature of human life. Set mostly on the Downs & coastline of East Sussex, the most luminous part of Engl&, it interweaves a walker`s experiences of light in Nature with the observations, jottings & thoughts of a dozen writers & painters
- & some scientists
- who have wrestled to define & understand light. From Hopkins to Turner, Coleridge to Whitman, Fra Angelico to Newton, Ravilious to Dante, the mystery of light is teased out & pondered on. Some of the results are surprising. By using mostly notebooks & sketchbooks, this book becomes a portrait of the transitoriness, randomness, swiftness, frustrations & quicksilver beauty that are the essence of light. It is a work to be enjoyed, pondered over, engaged with, provoked by; to be packed in the rucksack of every walker heading for the sea or the hills, or to be opened to bring that outside radiance within four dark town walls.

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SIX FOUR. THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat & listened to the demands of their daughter`s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police`s apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as ` Six Four`. They would never forgive the authorities their failure. For one week in late 2002, the press officer attached to the police department in question confronted an anomaly in the case. He could never imagine what he would uncover. He would never have looked if he`d known what he would find. ...

London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion & Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking the helm, but in Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a different direction. It took just six minutes for MPs to cast the votes that brought down Chamberlain. Shakespeare moves from Britain’s disastrous battle in Norway, for which many blamed Churchill, on to the dramatic developments in Westminster that led to Churchill becoming Prime Minister. Uncovering fascinating new research & delving into the key players’ backgrounds, Shakespeare gives us a new perspective on this critical moment in our history. ...