” Tar Sands” critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands & the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world`s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, & every major oil company now owns a lease in the Alberta tar sands. The region has become a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, Muslim extremists, & a huge population of homeless individuals. In this award-winning book, a Canadian bestseller, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, & political costs of the tar sands, arguing forcefully for change. This updated edition

Includes:: new chapters on the most energy-inefficient tar sands projects (the steam plants), as well as new material on the controversial carbon cemeteries & nuclear proposals to accelerate bitumen production.

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Tara National Park on a detailed contoured map at 1:50, 000 from Geokarta highlighting numerous waymarked hiking routes, with a street plan of Bajina Bašta showing various tourist facilities & services. The map has contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & colouring for woodlands indicating deciduous & coniferous forests. An overprint highlights waymarked hiking trail, with a separate table showing the duration of each route. Also marked are different types of tourist accommodation including campsites & hunting lodges, etc. The map has no geographical coordinates. Map legend

Includes:: English. Place names on the main map are in Latin alphabet. The plan of Bajina Bašta & its legend, surrounding notes & the text on the reverse of the map, illustrated with numerous photos, is Serbo-Croatian only & written in Cyrillic alphabet.

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Taranaki – Ruapehu region of New Zealand`s North Isl&, including New Plymouth, Ohakune, Wanganui & Foxton, on a detailed, indexed road map at 1:250, 000 from Kiwimaps, with extensive tourist information including a table of facilities in local campsites, a comprehensive index, etc. Maps in a series indicate unsurfaced roads & 4WD tracks, & show names of both major highways (Pacific Coast, Highway, Great Alpine Highway, Southern Scenic Route, etc.) & of minor rural roads. Main hiking tracks, railways & ferry routes are also marked. National parks & nature reserves are highlighted, & an extensive range of symbols indicates places of interest, Lord of the Rings locations, numerous sport facilities, motor home/caravan parks & dump stations, interesting geographical features, etc. Topography is shown by subtle but effective relief shading. The maps have no geographical coordinates. On the reverse each title has an index of both localities & names of rural roads, & lists geographical features such as mountains & passes, motor home & caravan sites, parks & reserves, etc. Also provided is a table showing what facilities are available in the local Department of Conservation campsites. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Tarangire National Park at 1:40, 000 on a map from Veronica Roodt Publications presenting the area on a base derived from satellite imagery. Extra panels provide additional information for visitors including an enlargement of the central area. On one side is a map of the whole park showing its network of roads & tracks for viewing animals. A panel provides GPS waypoints for 50 junctions or facilities, & driving distances are marked. Symbols indicate locations of lodges, ranger posts, campsites, picnic sites, etc. Also marked are locations of fuel supplies. On the reverse the central part of the park along the Tarangire River is shown in greater detail with 42 GPS waypoints. The title

Includes:: general information about the area & tips for the visitors, photos of over 50 local mammals with details of their size, habitat, etc, 120 photos of common local birds, plus a map & notes about the Tarangire ecosystem & the annual migratory routes. This title is part of a series of maps from Veronica Roodt Publications covering Tanzania

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Taranto Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

One of the titles in a series of topographic maps of popular walking & recreational areas with contours at 20m intervals & relief shading. Perennial snow & ice contours are marked in blue & terrain information

Includes:: cliffs, saddles, moraine, scree, forest, scrub, etc. The maps show tracks & footpaths, with some paths indicating walking distances between marked points. A range of symbols depict campsites, huts, shelters, toilets & parking areas, fuel supplies, places of interest, etc. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 1' intervals, & the New Zealand Map Grid is printed over the map. In this title: double-sided map of the Tararua Range between Masterton & Otaki. Coverage extends from the village of Mangaore & the town of Levin in the north to Greytown in the south.

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Tarasp, map No. 249, in the standard topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, i.e. without the special overprint highlighting walking trails, local bus stops, etc, presented in Swisstopo’s hiking editions of the 50K survey. The map covers the Lower Engadine Valley including Scuol, Flan & the peak of Silvretta. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. All the maps have a 1-km grid with the Swiss national coordinates. This standard version of the 50K survey covers the whole country on 78 small format sheets, with special larger format maps published for several popular tourist destinations. Small format sheets cover an area of 35 x 24 km (21 x 15 miles approx) & have map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. The special larger sheets cover 50 x 35 km (31 x 22 miles approx) & have no map legend, but a separate leaflet can be provided instead.PLEASE NOTE: the hiking editions of the 1:50, 000 Swisstopo survey are listed on our website in a separate series. ...

Tarasp area, map No. 249T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

Detailed ski map at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo, the country’s national survey organization, showing routes for skiing and/or snowboarding, access by public transport, recommended itineraries, lists of mountain huts, etc. The series uses the cartography of Switzerland’s topographic survey, with additional colouring to show slopes steeper than 30°. An overprint highlights ski routes, indicating suggested direction, difficult passages & sections which must be covered on foot. Also marked are areas where it is forbidden to leave the routes shown on the map. The maps also highlight roads with bus routes, indicating individual bus stops, show ski lifts & funiculars, plus mark locations of refuges or other mountain accommodation. Each title has the Swiss national grid at intervals of 1km, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’. Some titles cover a larger area, with a part of an adjoining sheet printed on the reverse of the main map as indicated on our series grid. Where appropriate, ski information extends across the border to France & Italy. On the reverse are itineraries of routes recommended by the Swiss Alpine Club, indicating the degree of difficulty, plus lists of alpine huts with contact details. Map legend for the overprint

Includes:: English. The text about the routes & accommodation is in the main language of the area covered by the map. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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