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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SOLDIER SAHIBS is the astonishing story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to the most notorious frontier in the world, the North-West Frontier, which today forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan & Afghanistan. Known collectively as ' Henry Lawrence's young men', each had distinguished himself in the East India Company's wars in the Punjab before going on to make his name as a 'political' on the Frontier
- Herbert Edwardes, who 'pacified' Bannu; John Nicholson, a forebear of the author who became the terror of the Sikhs as ' Nikkal Seyn'; ' Uncle' James Abbot of Hazara, & many others. Drawing extensively on their journals, diaries & letters, as well as his own recent travels in their footsteps, Charles Allen, acknowledged master story-teller of imperial history, weaves the individual stories of these soldier sahibs into an extraordinary tale that climaxes on Delhi Ridge in 1857, when the brotherhood came together to 'save' India.
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Soldier, Spy is the astonishing memoir of one ordinary man & soldier, Victor Gregg, as he resumes civilian life after the Second World War. As for so many others, picking up where he had left off proved far from simple for Gregg; he had fought many battles, lost many friends & been deeply damaged psychologically by his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. To escape the memories & the emotional trauma, he moved from one job & distraction to the next: from immersing himself in the adrenaline-fuelled competitive cycling to working as a long distance lorry driver, from becoming a Communist Party member to becoming a spy &, by his seventieth birthday, helping bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall. This honest & gritty account is the third book in a remarkable trilogy that both explores the permanent & damaging consequences of a life at war & tells the story of one ordinary man who went on to lead the most extraordinary life. ...

In this moving & unforgettable narrative journalist Daniel Bergner travels into the heart of Sierra Leone, a country torn apart by war. This is the story of the people he encounters in a realm of fire & jungle as they rebuild their lives: Lamin, who lost his hands to save his daughter; Komba, child soldier & sometime cannibal; Neall Ellis, the mercenary pilot with a conscience; Valentine Strasser the embittered ex-dictator; & the Western outsiders trying to save a land of startling beauty & brutality. Shocking, often heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful, ” Soldiers of Light” is a story of survival & a haunting work of literary reportage. ...

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer & fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, & can hear a search party & their dogs hunting him down. The branches move & he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, & faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns & walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero & the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? & might he still be alive? ...

This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India`s north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan & Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence`s Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East India Company`s wars in the Punjab in the 1840s before going out to carve out names for themselves as politicals on the frontier.; Drawing extensively on the men`s diaries, journals & letters, Charles Allen weaves the individual stories of these Soldier Sahibs together with the tale of how they came together to save British India, ending climatically on Delhi Ridge in 1857. ...