Thailand`s wealth of sun-kissed, tropical beaches & islands are one of the major reasons that this enticing country is one of the most popular destinations in the world, with visitor numbers up nearly 20 percent in 2013 alone. Whether you want to relax in a luxury resort, backpack between islands, find the best dive sites or nightlife, or immerse yourself in Thai culture, Insight Regional Guide Thailand`s Beaches & Islands will guide you to the perfect experience. Features by local writers delve into topics including local festivals, marine life, & Buddhist temple architecture, while evocative accounts of the country`s regions bring to life the buzz of Bangkok, the geographical wonders of Krabi & Ko Phi Phi, & the idyllic white sands everywhere from Phuket to Ko Lanta. Full-color photography & maps help you navigate with ease. The detailed travel tips section provides a wealth of information on how to plan your trip, plus our selection of the best hotels. Ed. 3rd, September 2014. ...

The DK Eyewitness Thailand `s Beaches & Islands Travel Guide is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide

Includes:: unique cutaways, floorplans & reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities & towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs & illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals & markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars & shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK`s excellent insider tips & essential local information will help you explore every corner of Thailand`s Beaches & Islands effortlessly. DK Eyewitness Thailand`s Beaches & Islands Travel Guide
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First appearing in 2005 & quickly selling out, this fully revised edition of ` Thailand`s Political History` continues in the same style as the first but with its scope dramatically widened. Starting earlier than the old edition, ` Thailand`s Political History` discusses the development & evolution of the Siamese state from the early Sukhothai period through the fall of Ayutthaya to the rise of the Chakri dynasty in the late eighteenth century & its consolidation of power in the nineteenth. Moving into the twentieth century it traces the emergence of the Thai nation state, the large-scale investments in infrastructure & the commitment to economic expansion that have occurred since the 1950s onwards. A new final chapter brings the reader up-to-date & addresses Thailand`s current political situation spanning the rise & fall of Thaksin Shinawatra to the devisive & at times violent polarisation of Thai society. It traces the emergence of the red & yellow shirts, the takeover of Suvarnabhumi airport by the PAD & the occupation of the Rachaprasong intersection by the UDD & their eventual violent dispersal by the Thai military. Often at variance with dominant interpretations of nationalistic history, this absorbing account throws fresh & illumininating light on the political events in the past 700 years. ...

Thame & District in 1886 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. The map covers the area from Cowley eastward to the west edge of Aylesbury, & from Chinnor northward to Ludgershall. Other locations on the map include: in BUCKINGAHMSHIRE Aston Sandford, Bledlow, Boarstal, Brill, Chearsley, Chilton, Cuddington, Dinton, Dorton, Haddenham, Hardwick, Horsendon, Ickford, Ilmer, Kingsey, Long Crendon, Lower Winchendon, Monks Risborough, Oakley, Princes Risborough, Saunderton, Shabbington, Stone, Towersey, Upper Winchendon, Waddesdon, Worminghall & Wotton Underwood; plus in OXFORDSHIRE Albury, Ambrosden, Beckley, Charlton on Otmoor, Cuddesdon, Elsfield, Emington, Foresthill, Garsington, Great Haseley, Great Milton, Headington, Holton, Horsepath, Merton, Noke, Oddington, Piddington, Sandford, Stanton St John, Sydenham, Tetsworth, Thame, Toot Baldon, Waterperry, Waterstock, Weston on the Green, Wheatley & Wood Eaton. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Here is a photographic journey along the 215 miles of the River Thames from its source in Gloucestershire to the mouth, first travelling along the north bank & then back along the south bank. The journey takes the reader through Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, London & out into the Thames Estuary where the river meets the North Sea. Photographer Stephan Kaluza & his assistants made their journey partly on foot & partly by boat & took pictures of both banks every few seconds, culminating in about 30, 000 images. A selection was then digitally combined to form the long consecutive sequences of the astonishingly changing & varied river banks, whether the green fields of the Cotswolds, the university spires of Oxford, the boathouses of Henley on Thames, or the built-up areas of London, from Battersea Power Station & the Palace of Westminster to Tower Bridge & Canary Wharf, or the industrial areas towards the mouth. ...

Thames Ditton in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers Thames Ditton, part of Long Ditton, & Weston Green. Coverage stretches from St Nicholas church to Esher station. Features include Thames Ditton village, Swan Inn, Ditton House, Boyle Farm, Giggshill, Rushett; railway with Hampton Court Junction, Esher & Thames Ditton stations; Ember or Imber Court, Weston Green, Ditton Common, Weston House etc. Extracts from a contemporary directory are included on the reverse About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Map No. 178, Thames Estuary, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including Southend-on-Sea, Billericay, Wichford, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hockley, Rochford, South Benfleet, Stanford-le-Hope, East Tilbury, Gravesend, Cliffe, Higham, Allhallows, Hoo St. Werburgh, Grain, Sheerness, Minster, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Newington, Leysdown-on-Sea, Bredhurst, Sittingbourne, Teynham, Faversham, Selling, Maidstone, Offham, Ditton & Snodl&, as well as the Medway Estuary, Isle of Sheppey, Canvey Isl&, Foulness Island & a section of the North Downs Way
- E2 European long-distance path. Edition D3; Revised for selected changes 2007; Copyright date 2007 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey
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Map No. 178, Thames Estuary 1805-1819, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Southend-on-Sea, Billericay, Wichford, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hockley, Rochford, South Benfleet, Stanford-le-Hope, East Tilbury, Gravesend, Cliffe, Higham, Allhallows, Hoo St. Werburgh, Grain, Sheerness, Minster, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Newington, Leysdown-on-Sea, Bredhurst, Sittingbourne, Teynham, Faversham, Selling, Maidstone, Offham, Ditton & Snodl&, as well as the Medway Estuary, the Isle of Sheppey, Canvey Island & Foulness Isl&. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 178, Thames Estuary 1805-1922 (3-map set), in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Southend-on-Sea, Billericay, Wichford, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hockley, Rochford, South Benfleet, Stanford-le-Hope, East Tilbury, Gravesend, Cliffe, Higham, Allhallows, Hoo St. Werburgh, Grain, Sheerness, Minster, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Newington, Leysdown-on-Sea, Bredhurst, Sittingbourne, Teynham, Faversham, Selling, Maidstone, Offham, Ditton & Snodl&, as well as the Medway Estuary, the Isle of Sheppey, Canvey Island & Foulness Isl&. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 178, Thames Estuary 1897-1898, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Southend-on-Sea, Billericay, Wichford, Basildon, Rayleigh, Hockley, Rochford, South Benfleet, Stanford-le-Hope, East Tilbury, Gravesend, Cliffe, Higham, Allhallows, Hoo St. Werburgh, Grain, Sheerness, Minster, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Newington, Leysdown-on-Sea, Bredhurst, Sittingbourne, Teynham, Faversham, Selling, Maidstone, Offham, Ditton & Snodl&, as well as the Medway Estuary, the Isle of Sheppey, Canvey Island & Foulness Isl&. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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