This is a fabulous treasury of legend & wonder; tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand & shells which fall from their hair. In the absence of a written tradition, for generations of Skianachs, these tales, handed down orally, contained the very warp & weft of Hebridean history. They take us far beyond Christian times, to the edge of the Iron Age, & interweave with threads from the wider Atlantic tradition of Gaelic heroic myth & legend. ...

Skye: Trotternish, The Storr & Uig area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 408, waterproof version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Skye: Trotternish, The Storr & Uig area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 408, paper version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, & travelled high & fast above its turning arc. When you looked down on a new world, captured simply & perfectly through a window fringed with ice. When you descended towards a city, & arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak. In Skyfaring, airline pilot & flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying, on a journey from day to night, from new ways of mapmaking & the poetry of physics to the names of winds & the nature of clouds. Here, anew, is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers, armchair & otherwise, all too easily take for granted: the transcendent joy of motion, & the remarkable new perspectives that height & distance bestow on everything we love. ...

Intended for the more serious novice observer, the SKYHAWK-114, with a useful 114mm of light gathering aperture, is a very good all round performer on the Moon, Stars, Bright Planets, Star Clusters, Galaxies & Nebulae. Supplied with the EQ1 equatorial mount, which when polar aligned, will allow you to easily track objects as they move across the night sky via its slow motion control cables. ...

The exciting Sky-Watcher Syn Scan™ AZ Computerised Go To telescopes will allow you to easily find & track night sky treasures, such as Planets, Nebulae, Star Clusters, Galaxies & much more. The Syn Scan™ AZ hand control allows you point your telescope automatically at a specific object, or even tour the night sky at the touch of a button!! The user-friendly menu system allows automatic slewing to over 42, 900+ night sky objects. Even an inexperienced astronomer can master its variety of features in a few observing sessions. The Skyhawk-1145P with its superb parabolic optics is a proven all round performer.” The Sky-Watcher Syhawk-1145P Synscan AZ Go-To certainly puts the fun into astronomy with its `grab & go` credentials, quick setup, accutate Go-Tos & no-nonsense optics. We would highly recommend this established telescope & mount to any beginner looking to get a head start” BBC Sky At Night Magazine ...

Super-sized critters are popping up & causing havoc all over Skylands! Spyro & his fellow Skylanders set out on a mission to work out what`s going on & save the day
- but it seems the scheming Kaos is intent on beating them to it. Based on the characters from the smash hit Skylanders video game, ” Spyro versus the Mega Monsters” is the very first novel in the new ” Mask of Power” story series.
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Containing a detailed A-Z of the Skylanders` world, an exclusive Trigger Snappy toy & an awesome fold-out surprise, this is the perfect gift for Portal Masters! For the first time ever, young Portal Masters can access an extensive A-Z guide to Skylands, featuring friends, enemies, locations, collectible items & of course the Skylanders themselves. Whether your favourite is an original Skylander such as Spyro or Gill Grunt, or a Giant like Tree Rex, they`re all here. Plus, the exclusive limited edition Skylanders Spyro`s Adventure Sidekick is a must-have for any Skylanders collection. Put Trigger Snappy on your Portal of Power & he`ll scurry around all over your screen, accompanying your Skylanders through even the trickiest of challenges. & don`t forget the awesome fold-out frieze, which will look terrific on display in the bedroom of any self-respecting Portal Master! ...

It is 1900, give or take a few years. The Vajkays-call them Mother & Father-live in Sarszeg, a dead-end burg in the provincial heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Father retired some years ago to devote his days to genealogical research & quaint questions of heraldry. Mother keeps house. Both are utterly enthralled with their daughter, Skylark. Unintelligent, unimaginative, unattractive, & unmarried, Skylark cooks & sews for her parents & anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives. Now Skylark is going away, for only a week it`s true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do? Before they know it, they are eating at restaurants, reconnecting with old friends, attending the theater. & this just a prelude to Father`s night out at the Panther Club, about which the less said the better. Drunk, in the light of dawn, Father surprises himself & Mother with his true, buried, unspeakable feelings about Skylark. Then, Skylark is back. Is there a world elsewhere, beyond life`s daily monotonous grind & creeping disappointment? Not only for Mother & Father, but for Skylark, too? This question is unanswerable, but the crystalline prose, perfect comic timing, & profound human sympathy that make Dezso Kosztolanyi one of the masters of European literature conjure up a tantalizing beauty that lies on the far side of the irredeemably ordinary. To that extent, Skylark is nothing less than a magical book. ...

” An utter delight”
- Jennifer Tetlow. In the Encounters in the Wild series, renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close
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