This exquisite 40cm (16) illuminated globe is constructed from a glass-like material, held in a stainless steel half meridian & base. The sturdy globe is modelled to show raised relief for land areas & is coloured to portray the physical geography/land vegetation & the bathymetric detail of the ocean floor. Illumination accentuates the colour contrast but does not reveal any further detail. ...

Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, & then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, & dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, & society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent & invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black h&. The crimes whipped up the slavering tabloid press & heated ethnic tensions to the boiling point. Standing between the American public & the Black Hand`s lawlessness was Joseph Petrosino. Dubbed the ” Italian Sherlock Holmes, ” he was a famously dogged & ingenious detective, & a master of disguise. As the crimes grew ever more bizarre & the Black Hand`s activities spread far beyond New York`s borders, Petrosino & the all-Italian police squad he assembled raced to capture members of the secret criminal society before the country`s anti-immigrant tremors exploded into catastrophe. Petrosino`s quest to root out the source of the Black Hand`s power would take him all the way to Sicily-but at a terrible cost. Unfolding a story rich with resonance in our own era, The Black Hand is fast-paced narrative history at its very best. ...

Snowy has sniffed out another mystery, but also discovers a taste for Scottish whisky! After a terrifying chase through the skies, Tintin sets out to investigate the infamous Black Isl&. But can Tintin & Snowy escape the terrible `beast` that devours every man bold enough to go near? ...

In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the world rested on the labour of half a million slaves. In 1791 the waves of unrest inspired by the French Revolution reached across the Atlantic dividing the loyalties of the white population of the isl&. The brutally treated slaves of Saint Domingo seized at this confusion & rose up in rebellion against masters. In thisclassic work, CLR James chronicles the only successful slave revolt in history & provides a critical portrait of their leader, Toussaint L` Ouverture, `one of the most remarkable men of a period rich in remarkable men`. ...

Amid the lush abundance of Java`s landscape, two boys spend their days exploring the vast lakes & teeming forests. But as time passes the boys come to realize that their shared sense of adventure cannot bridge the gulf between their backgrounds, for one is the son of a Dutch plantation owner, & the other the son of a servant. Inevitably, as they grow up, they grow estranged & it is not until years later that they meet again. It will be an explosive & emblematic meeting that marks them even more deeply than their childhood friendship did. ...

When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, & a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island`s history that it has tried hard to forget. There is a lot at stake
- the island`s lucrative tourist trade & the open secret of the drugs trade that goes hand in hand with the hordes of mainly young British holiday makers. As Nikos begins his investigation, two British crime writers arrive on the isl&. The best selling Kitty Carson, on a break from the pressures of writing & her strained relationship, & Jason an aspiring writer whose aim is to strike up a friendship with her & convince her to help him get published. As the two writers are thrown together in an unexpected way, another murder is committed & Jason & Kitty are drawn into an investigation of their own. As they discover more about the island`s dark past what began as a diversion becomes a dangerous pursuit...
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The Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park, including a part of the Offa’s Dyke Path, on a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active version of map No. 161 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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The Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park, including a part of the Offa’s Dyke Path, on a paper version of map No. 161 from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series at 1:50, 000, with contoured & GPS compatible topographic mapping plus tourist information.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: As well as the physical edition of the map, each Landranger title now

Includes:: a code for downloading after purchase its digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS LANDRANGER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Landranger series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. Maps in the Landranger series provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. National Trails & selected other long-distance paths are marked, as well as on-road & traffic-free cycle routes with their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. National Trust/ National Trust for Scotland & Forestry Commission land is clearly marked, indicating open or restricted access. A range of symbols highlights camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, tourist information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, World Heritage sites, sport & recreational facilities, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of topography with contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & additional colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards or parkl&, rock features including scree & cliffs, water features inland & along the sea shore with marshl&, dunes, s&, mud, shingle & the high water mark. All the standard information expected of survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings, embankments, etc; individual isolated buildings; archaeological & historical sites, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is shown at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1` & cross hairs on the map at 5`. Each map covers an area of 40 x 40km, (approx. 25 x 25 miles).

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Map No. 161, The Black Mountains / Y Mynyddoedd Duon, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000 including Abergavenny/Y Fenni, Ebbw Vale, / Glyn Ebwy, Tredegar, Rhymney/ Rhymi, Cwmavon, Trefi 8l, Blaenavon, Llanover, Raglan, Llangovan, Dingestow, Penrhos, Govilon, Llanelly, Crickhowell, Wern, Llangynidr, Llanberd, Llantilio Pertholey, Aber Village, Pennorth, Pengenffordd, Capel-y-ffin, Llanfilo, Talgarth, Velindre, Bronllys, Glasbuty, Boughrood, Erwood, Clyro, Hay-on-Wye/Y Gelli Gandryll, Hardwicke, Credenhill, King ...

Map No. 161, The Black Mountains / Y Mynyddoedd Duon 1830-1833, 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 Abergavenny/Y Fenni, Ebbw Vale, / Glyn Ebwy, Tredegar, Rhymney/ Rhymi, Cwmavon, Trefi 8l, Blaenavon, Llanover, Raglan, Llangovan, Dingestow, Penrhos, Govilon, Llanelly, Crickhowell, Wern, Llangynidr, Llanberd, Llantilio Pertholey, Aber Village, Pennorth, Pengenffordd, Capel-y-ffin, Llanfilo, Talgarth, Velindre, Bronllys, Glasbuty, Boughrood, Erwood, Clyro, Hay-on-Wye/Y Gelli Gandryll, Hardwicke, Credenhill, King



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