Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel by professional longboarder Sam Bleakley, illustrated with stunning photographs by John Callahan. It takes surfing beyond the waves & packaged surf tourism to a wider sense of place & cultural identity. Sam travels from his birthplace in West Cornwall to Indonesia & the Philippines; through vibrant West African highlife in Ghana, to war-damaged Liberia; to Mauritania, where landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet; to a serene Buddhist oasis in Communist China; to Ecuador, Oman & Haiti, whose complex culture seeps into his psyche & captures his heart. He looks deep into the jet-black eye of a surfacing shark in Kenya, & faces a stacked set of foaming lips during typhoon surf in South Korea. Celebrating Thelonious Monk`s 1950s album Brilliant Corners, Sam explores how, like great jazz musicians, talented surfers use invention, complex rhythm, timing & spontaneity to turn impossible waves into beautiful & challenging music.` Surfing, ` he says, `has opened me up, split my skin, widened my horizons, & closed me down, because any obsession restricts your involvement in other aspects of life.` ...

Footprint's Surfing Britain & Ireland covers an extensive range of surfing spots & has been compiled by expert surf writer/photographer team, Chris Nelson & Demi Taylor. The guide

Includes:: all essential surf-breaks information, in addition to tips from Britain's top surfers & local experts, board advice from the UK

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Footprint's Surfing Europe covers a range of the best surfing opportunities throughout Europe for beginners & experienced surfers. Each destination in the guide is sub-divided into regional areas, each with tips on getting around & overviews of each beach & relevant coastline maps. Each recommended surf spot has detailed informationon swells, winds, best months to surf, & reef & tidal information in additon to tips from the world's top surfers. The guide covers surfing opportunities Scotl&, Engl&, Wales, Irel&, France, Spain & the Canary Islands, Portugal, Italy & Morocco. ...

The Haynes Surfing Manual is a complete introduction to this increasingly popular sport, covering history & culture, preparation, equipment, techniques, fitness, safety & travel. Clearly written by an enthusiastic & highly experienced surfer, & illustrated with superb diagrams & specially commissioned photographs, this is the perfect guide for anyone just beginning to surf as well as those who have already `got up`. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Surinam at 1:720, 000 & French Guiana at 1:900, 000 from ITMB, with each country shown separately on one side of the map, indexed & accompanied by street plan (s) of central Paramaribo, Kourou & Cayenne. Bold altitude colouring shows the topography, with elevation in feet. Swamp & mangrove areas are marked & rivers show dams, rapids or falls. The maps present each country’s road & rail networks, plus airfields for access to the remote areas of the interior. A range of symbols indicates various places of interest & tourist facilities. Also shown are internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces, plus the disputed border zones. Each map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at 1° (Surinam) or 30’ (Guiana). Large, clear street plans show the central areas of Paramaribo, Kourou & Cayenne, annotated with places of interest & selected accommodation. The Surinam map also Insets showing population distribution & rainfall. ...

Map No. 10084, Surnadal, 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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Find out what sharks are really like in this fun, informative picture book & CD, part of the new Nature Storybooks series. Some sharks are no bigger than a chocolate bar, some have built-in fairy lights & most wouldn't go near a human, even if you were wearing a sign saying dinner! So if you think all sharks are giant, man-eating killers, you're in for a big surprise... Surprising Sharks has been re-launched in the new Nature Storybooks series with a brand new look & accompanying CD read by Stephen Tompkinson, with story reading, song, extra facts & a read-along version. ...

` Sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of the enigma of space....`
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Surrey & Sussex in the Pathfinder Guides series, produced in association with Ordnance Survey & published by Crimson; comprising a range of walking guides to popular British destinations. Each Pathfinder guide

Includes:: 28 varied walks ranging from easy strolls to exhilarating hikes & is accompanied by 1:25, 000 Ordnance Survey mapping with marked, colour-coded routes. Introductory sections profile the county or region covered, with recommendations on the best time to visit & a brief explanation of GPS. An

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