A cruising & tourist map of the Broads is at 1:50, 000 with detailed town plans at 1:12, 500 for Wroxham & Hoveton, Stalham, Horning, Potter Heigham, Norwich, Brundall, Beccles, Loddon, Great Yarmouth, Reedham & Oulton Broad. Suitable for both waterways & leisure users. The Broads is Britain`s largest protected wetl&, covering some 300 sq km. Its rivers, broads, marshes & fens make it a unique area with some rare habitats, plants & wildlife. It was the arrival of the railways in the late 19th century that opened the area to tourism. Today it is one of the most popular inland waterways with in excess of 125 miles of lock-free navigable waterways. Other popular activities include fishing, walking, cycling & bird watching. This map gives detailed coverage of the Broads with emphasis on the waterways & information useful & relevant to users of the waterways without neglecting other leisure users. The map detail is complimented by information panels & photographs. The map shows navigation information, visitor moorings, boatyards, boat hire centres, facilities for the boat user & shops. Tourist information

Includes:: places of interest, pubs, nature reserves, windmills, churches, long distance paths, public toilets & caravan & camp sites. The reverse side has detailed boating information including location of visitor moorings, details of facilities at boatyards & marinas, journey times, day boat hire & boat trip locations, as well as contact details & opening times for a wide selection of visitor destinations & attractions, canoe & cycle hire details & some useful waterways contact numbers. To see the list of other titles in this series please, click on the series link.

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Laminated waterproof edition of a detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Wroxham, Beccles, Lowestoft & Great Yarmouth (showing the Broads Authority area). Edition A2; Publication date January 2010 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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The Broken Bridge is an insightful & heartfelt story of a teenager`s search for her own identity in the face of heartbreaking family secrets by Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning Northern Lights. Sixteen-year-old Ginny`s life is secure. Her mother is dead, but she`s inherited her outstanding artistic talent, & she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives & old files are re-opened, Ginny`s world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. & Ginny must uncover the hidden secrets of the past on a journey that will ultimately lead her to the mother she`s never known.. . ...

The Arumbaya fetish has been stolen! But with the help of a talking parrot, Tintin is soon on the hunt for the famous artefact. He must solve a murder, dash through a revolution & discover the true value of the fetish- because he is not the only one on the trail... ...

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife & children & the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from civil war? Was it to answer his brother Nasim`s call to raise a hospital out of the ashes? Was it to kick over the traces of past love affairs? Or to establish the truth behind his father`s death? Or was it to confront at last the ghost of the man known only as ” Sinalcol”, a legendary phantom of the civil war, & a broken mirror of himself? In Beirut, Karim will learn the fate of old comrades, & face a brother who shares a past as divided as the city itself. & he will find that peace is only ever fleeting in a war without end. ...

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts & Between the Woods & the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. ` When are you going to finish Vol. III?` was the cry from his fans; but although he wished he could, the words refused to come. The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk, but that it predated the other two. It remains unfinished but The Broken Road
- edited & introduced by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper
- completes an extraordinary journey.

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Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It`s a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin`s not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his, The Broken Shore delivers powerful, lean writing, pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.
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Archaeologists date the Bronze Age in Europe from about the 5th to the last millennium BC. That span of time saw dramatic changes in civilizations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, & from Scandinavia to the Aegean. The discovery of Bronze, an alloy of copper & tin, was a remarkable technological development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools & weapons. Across Europe, the people of the Bronze Age forged metal & traded its products, raised monolithic standing stones, practised similar funerary & religious rites, & decorated their products with the same motifs & symbols. From Cretan palaces to Swiss lakeside dwellings, a common culture arose. In this text the authors explore the story of the Bronze Age, tracing it back beyond the borders of history. ...

`I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain.. .` So begins Paul Auster`s remarkable novel, ” The Brooklyn Follies”. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan & Tom, an uncle & nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, & estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, &, indeed, from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life & passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption. ...

Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City--6, 000 miles in all--to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn--some 816 miles--to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city`s hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with residents during his block-by-block journeys, The Brooklyn Nobody Knows captures the heart & soul of a diverse, booming, & constantly changing borough that defines cool around the world. The guide covers every one of Brooklyn`s forty-four neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Coney Isl&, providing a colorful portrait of each section`s most interesting, unusual, & unknown people, places, & things. Along the way you will learn about a Greenpoint park devoted to plants & trees that produce materials used in industry; a hornsmith who practices his craft in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; a collection of 1, 140 stuffed animals hanging from a tree in Bergen Beach; a five-story Brownsville mural that depicts Zionist leader Theodor Herzl--and that was the brainchild of black teenagers; Brooklyn`s most private--yet public--beach in Manhattan Beach; & much, much more. An unforgettably vivid chronicle of today`s Brooklyn, the book can also be enjoyed without ever leaving home--but it`s almost guaranteed to inspire you to get out & explore one the most fascinating urban areas anywhere. * Covers every one of Brooklyn`s 44 neighborhoods, providing a colorful portrait of their most interesting, unusual, & unknown people, places, & things* Each neighborhood section features a brief overview & history; a detailed, user-friendly map keyed to the text; & a lively guided walking tour* Draws on the author`s 816-mile walk through every Brooklyn neighborhood*

Includes:: insights from conversations with hundreds of residents

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