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. ...

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress`s rival & successor, Mrs. Ota, & that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota
- a relationship that will bring only suffering & destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony`s poetic precision with understated, lyrical style & beautiful prose.
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Thrace, the European part of Turkey, at 1:320, 000 in a series of regional maps from Mepmedya Yayinlari also covering the Mediterranean coast & the region around Ankara. The map is published in a handy double-sided format of 98 x 33cm when opened, easy to use when travelling. The map emphasizes main road connections but also

Includes:: local roads. Railway lines are shown with stations. Rather basic relief shading with a few spot heights is used to present the topography. Symbols highlight various places of interest. Also marked are internal administrative boundaries. The map is indexed & has no geographical coordinates. Map legend

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Thrace & Eastern Macedonia at 1:200, 000 in a series of regional road maps of Greece from Terrain Editions, printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. The map is double-sided, with a small overlap between the sides, & included the islands of Thasos & Samothrace (Samothraki) as well as part of the Khalkidhiki Peninsula with Mt Athos & Sithonia. Topography is shown by relief shading with light altitude colouring & plenty of names of mountain ranges. All place names are in both Greek & Latin alphabets. Presentation of the road network differentiates between smooth & rough dirt roads, & shows driving distances on many local roads plus locations of petrol stations. Scenic routes are highlighted. Railway lines & ferry routes are included. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including campsites & mountain refuges, archaeological sites, churches & monasteries, skiing areas, etc. The map has a 10km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks & crosshairs at 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. The index, separate for the Greek & Latin alphabet place names & with lists of monasteries & archaeological sites, is on the map itself &, unlike in most other titles in this series, no street plans are included.

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Thrapston in 1899 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. 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. In this title: the map gives good coverage of Thrapston, extending from the town centre southward to the Midland Railway station. Features include St James church, Thrapston House, LNWR railway with station, Midland Railway with station, ironstone quarry with tramway, Workhouse, Nene Side Iron Works, Cattle Market, Thrapston Bridge, St Nicholas church Islip (at top edge of map), Thrapston Mill etc. An 1898 directory of Thrapston is also included. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND & THE RETURN. Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians, Jews & Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina Sarafoglou`s home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she flees across the sea to an unknown destination in Greece. Soon her life will become entwined with Dimitri`s, & with the story of the city itself, as war, fear & persecution begin to divide its people. Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents` life story for the first time & realises he has a decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the memories & treasures of the people who were forced to leave. Should he become their next custodian & make this city his home? ...

Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, Jews & Moslems live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this city, as war, fear & persecution begin to divide its people. ...

In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town, known as the Jungle, is the home of thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East & Africa, all hoping, somehow, to get to the UK. Into this squalid shantytown of shipping containers & tents, full of rats & trash & devoid of toilets & safety, the artist Kate Evans brought a sketchbook & an open mind. Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling, Evans has produced this unforgettable book, filled with poignant images by turns shocking, angering, wry, & heartbreaking. Weaving into the story hostile comments about the migrants from nativist politicians & Internet trolls, Threads addresses one of the most pressing issues of modern times making a compelling case, through intimate evidence, for compassionate treatment of refugees & the free movement of peoples. Evans`s creativity & passion as an artist, activist, & mother shine through. ...

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 & in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in & out of what was described as `a stuporous state`. In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea & boats & the coastline seen from the sea, & later, when he was too ill to stand & paint, he turned to embroidery, which he could do lying in bed. His embroideries were also the sea, including his masterpiece, a huge embroidery of The Evacuation of Dunkirk. Very few facts about Craske are known, & only a few scattered photographs have survived, together with accounts by the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner & her lover Valentine Ackl&, who discovered Craske in 1937. So
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- Julia Blackburn`s account of his life is far from a conventional biography. Instead it is a quest which takes her in many strange directions
- to fishermen`s cottages in Sheringham, a grand hotel fallen on hard times in Great Yarmouth & to the isolated Watch House far out in the Blakeney estuary; to Cromer & the bizarre story of Einstein`s stay there, guarded by dashing young women in jodhpurs with shotguns. Threads is a book about life & death & the strange country between the two where John Craske seemed to live. It is also about life after death, as Julia`s beloved husband Herman, a vivid presence in the early pages of the book, dies before it is finished. In a gentle meditation on art & fame; on the nature of time & the fact of mortality; & illustrated with Craske`s paintings & embroideries, Threads shows, yet again, that Julia Blackburn can conjure a magic that is spellbinding & utterly her own.


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At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die... Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor`s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions & died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison
- just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive...
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