A world map in a jigsaw format: Extra Goods introduces the pleasure of learning geography by play with a new series of magnetic puzzles reproducing the world & the world`s major cites. This 100 pieces puzzle is presented in a beautiful tin box, decorated with the world map which is the reproduced on the jigsaw. The perfect gift for travelers & armchair travelers. The tin

Features:- 100 pieces magnetic puzzle- dimensions: a puzzle surface of 33cm x 23 cm-

Dimensions of the box: height 9 cm; diameter 7 cm- up-to-date cartography To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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A fun activity book for 5-8 year olds, this exciting sticker book is full of awesome images of the planets & galaxies. With over 150 reusable stickers the book is a perfect introduction to the ever popular topic of the planets & intergalactic space. An introduction to the ever-popular topic of space & the amazing worlds that make up our solar system. Written in clear & easy-to-follow language & packed with colourful illustrations, photographs & peel-able stickers. Young children can find out facts about the Sun, the planets, asteroids & comets. Educational & entertaining, & full of colourful photographs. A perfect combination of learning & fun. ...

Solar Sysytem Wallpaper is eight sheets of thick, image decorated paper to adorn the walls of home or office, measuring 251x 416cm / 8’ 3”x 13’ 8”. Product

Includes:: cellulose wallpaper paste & instructions.* Please note
- this item can be only be delivered by UPS.*


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Solar System Skyline Wooden Jigsaw has been handcrafted & cut, then primed & painted in bright child safe non toxic, bright colours. A small work of art in its own right, the jigsaw both entertains & educates, allowing children to appreciate geography by piecing it together with their own hands. The item is presented in an attractive box & supplied with its own natural cotton drawstring bag for transporting the pieces around. Suitable for ages 6 & up. Products meet & exceed required European Toy Safety Standard. ...

Ideal for children & adults alike, Solar System: The Print Collection reveals the most interesting & mysterious parts of the planets closest to us. The unique features of every planet
- including Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot, the Sun's burning surface
- are vividly illustrated in large, detailed posters, accompanied by accessible information on the planet, its climate, orbit & position in space. Easy to pull out & keep, each individual poster is stunning, educational & ready to put on your wall.

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The SOLAS Consolidated Edition 2014 is an essential reference for maritime administrations, ship manufacturers, owners & operators, shipping companies, education institutes & all others concerned with requirements of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea. In order to provide an easy reference to all SOLAS requirements applicable from 1 July 2014, this edition presents a consolidated text of the SOLAS Convention, its Protocols of 1978 & 1988 & all amendments in effect from that date. ...

Map No. 10043, Solør, 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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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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This is a powerful novel written in vignettes about a a nepalese girl who risks everything for a chance to reclaim her life. Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though they are desperately poor, Lakshmi`s life is full of simple pleasures: playing hopscotch with her best friend, looking after her black-&-white speckled goat, having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when Lakshmi`s family lose all that remains of their crops in a monsoon, her stepfather says she must leave home & take a job in the city. Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India full of hope for her new life, proud to be able to earn, daring to hope that she will make enough money to make her mother proud too. Then she learns the unthinkable truth: for 10, 000 rupees she has been sold into prostitution. ...

Sold as a Slave is the story of Olaudah Equiano, who was kidnapped as a child from a small African Village before he had ever heard of white men, Europe or the sea, & sold into slavery. In an adventurous & extraordinary life, Equiano criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger & betrayal. This pocket paperback edition collects extracts from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano About this series: Penguin's Great Journeys series presents extracts from some of the most important classic travelogues in a compact paperback format. The series allows readers to travel both around the planet & back through the centuries
- but also back into ideas & worlds frightening, ruthless & cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent & implacable jungles, deserts & mountains, multitudes of birds & flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends & stories were treated as facts & in which so much was still to be discovered.
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