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 award-winning Sky-Watcher SKYHAWK-1145P is a great choice for the serious beginner & also receives high marks from more seasoned astronomers. With a useful 114mm of light gathering aperture, combined with its superb parabolic mirror, this telescope is a highly capable all-rounder for the observation of the Moon, bright planets, nebulae, galaxies & star clusters. 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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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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The perfect gift for anyone who loves to be in, on or by the sea. How can you tell how old a fish is? Why is the sea salty? What does SCUBA stand for? Batten down the hatches & discover the answer to all these questions & many more in this unique collection of all things marine. ...

Called `the book lost & found in time` by its author, Skylight is one of Saramago`s earliest novels. The manuscript was lost in the publishers` offices in Lisbon for decades, & is only now being published in English. Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There`s the elderly shoemaker & his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who sells herself for money, clothes & jewellery; the cultivated family come down in the world, who live only for each other & for music; & the beautiful typist whose boss can`t keep his eyes off her. Poisonous relationships, happy marriages, jealousy, gossip & love
- Skylight brings together all the joys & grief of ordinary people.
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Map No. 815, Skyline Boulevard Parks & Preserves along the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national & state parks or forests & other popular recreational areas. Cartography based on the national topographic survey, with additional tourist information. The maps, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, highlight walking trails along with campsites & other accommodation, picnic sites, areas for various recreational pursuits such as horse riding or skiing, drinking water sources, & many other facilities of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. Cartography is based on information from the USGS (United States Geological Survey
- the country’s national survey organization), revised by the National Geographic Maps in cooperation with the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, etc. Topography is excellently presented by contours (interval varies according to scale), enhanced by relief shading & colouring/graphics for wood cover, glaciers, etc. All heights are given in feet. The maps have a UTM grid plus latitude & longitude margin ticks & GPS waypoints for selected important locations. Each map is double-sided to give either maximum coverage of the chosen area or additional enlargements of its important sections. Accompanying notes provide useful information on relevant regulations, safety precautions, contact addresses, etc.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: the series is very extensive, ranging in scale from 1:400, 000 for the vast national parks of Alaska to 1:25, 000 for local map in several states. We recommend, therefore, viewing the series by state rather than the whole list.

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