Dervla Murphy`s first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, ” Full Tilt”, is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of Northern India. Here, she fell in love with the ` Tiblets`
- the cheerful, tough, uncomplaining, independent & affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile. Dervla vividly describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed & care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources. She pitches in with a helping hand wherever it is needed & finds time to visit the Dalai Lama & his entourage. Dervla`s heart-rending account is interwoven with her own observations on the particular cultural & social problems associated with trying to help a people who have lived in isolation from the rest of the world & she becomes a perceptive witness to the inner realities & sometime inadequacies of aid-work. First published in 1966, ” Tibetan Foothold” not only confirmed Dervla`s status as a traveller, but also revealed her to be a truly independent voice & an acute observer of politics & society.
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The Lonely Planet Tibetan Phrasebook is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language & beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar & pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet phrasebooks enable you to quickly & confidently construct your own phrases in addition to those given. The given phrases cover all the essential travel & tourism categories such as transport, communications, business meetings & accommodation, as well as in-depth categories such as health, food & social interaction. The phrasebooks are designed to enable more than just simple question-answer communication, allowing the start of two-way conversations ...

As a story of travel, Tibetan Transit is rich in landscape & character. As a witness to the abuse of human rights & a plea for liberty, it is not easily forgotten. No country has ever so engaged the reader's imangination as Tibet. Described as barren & primitive by early travellers, Tibet's image changed to one of a stunnignly beautiful landscape that gave rise to one of the most intriguing civilisations on earth. Every traveller's conceived image of Tibet clashes with the reality. Tibetan Transit is a travelogue that weaves the rich veins of Tibetan history, spirituality & legend with the contemporary struggle of a culture under seige. Lolo Houbein, on her travels to Tibet witnesses landslides, an uprising over the disputed succession of the Panchen Lama, martial law & celebrations of the Dalai Lama's birthday. She meets villagersk farmers, nuns, monks, beggars & undertakers & discovers a land richer in beauty & spiritual wealth than she ever expected. This depite the decades that had passed since the Chinese invaded Tibet & cut it in three. Since then the dominance of a foreign ideology over Tibetan culture & Buddhist religion has wrought irreparable changes. Tibet has become the worlds's litmus test as to who or what makes a nation in the new millennium. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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Seventh title of a series of 8 DVDs covering the whole country. About this series: The Swiss Map 25 series covers the whole of the country at 1:25, 000,

Includes:: the complete official Swiss footpath network & it is compatible with both Swiss Map 50 & 100, & with the Dufour Map. There are 8 DVD titles in the series, each also including the Swiss Map 500 covering the whole country. The cartography of Swiss Map 25 is equivalent to that of the printed Swiss Survey maps & the individually selectable map extracts can be easily printed & exported. The diversity of the graphic tools makes it possible to show political & administrative boundaries (including municipalities, districts & cantons), highlight castles, heritage sites & other tourist information, & search for all displayed place names. It is also possible to calculate distances, hiking times & profiles' elevation, to enter individual routes or add personal data to a map. Up-to-date information from the Switzerland Tourism organisation about holiday destinations, hotels, events & excursions can also be accessed from the map via the Internet. Each DVD is compatible with Windows, Mac & GPS (NMEA, Garmin & Magellan). All data is available in English, German, French & Italian. System requirements:1 GB free hard disk space Screen 1024 x 768 pixels Thousands of colours (16 bits) Internet Browser 4.x (or higher) Windows
- 2000 or XP
- Pentium processor III
- 256 MB RAMMacintosh
- Mac OS X 10.1.5 (or higher)
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Northern part of Ticino at 1:60, 000 in Kümmerly + Frey’s hiking series of Switzerl&, with most titles now printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. The series offers a popular alternative to Swiss survey maps & cartography which many walkers find easier to follow. Coverage of the whole country is designed so that each title presents a popular hiking area. The maps have contours at 50 or 25-metre intervals according to the terrain, enhanced by graphic relief & shading. An overprint distinguishes between sign-posted hiking paths, mountain path where proper walking shoes are necessary, & alpine paths requiring special equipment. Most titles now also indicate national & regional long-distance hiking routes, each annotated with its official number. Mountain huts are marked, plus various types of accommodation: campsites, youth hostels, “ Friends of Nature” houses, & secluded hotels & restaurants. Road network indicates local bus routes with stops. Railways, narrow gauge mountain railways, cable car lines, & chair lifts are shown, with various symbols highlighting places of interest, viewpoints, picnic sites, swimming pools, etc. Each title covers an area of Approx. 60 x 42 km (37 x 26 miles). The maps have a 1km Swiss national grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* On the reverse, an index of towns & villages

Includes:: names of geographical features such as mountains, alpine passes, glaciers, lakes, rivers, as well as places of interest. Also provided is an overview road map of surrounding region.



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One of a series of spiral-bound atlases, each with 50 specially selected hiking tours shown with route profiles. Coverage in this title

Includes:: Locarno, Lugano, Bellinzona, Centovalli & Chiasso. The routes are graded according to the difficulty of the terrain, & clearly distinguished from other local hiking paths. The atlas is arranged so that each page of mapping is shown together with a page listing the routes with grading, total & intermediate times, & coordinates for special points. Route profiles also give intermediate times & indicate access to transport. The atlases include general information on emergency procedures & contact details for various services & facilities, including mountain huts. Cartography is from the K

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Ticino South
- Lugano
- Lake Maggiore area at 1:60, 000 in Kümmerly + Frey’s hiking series of Switzerl&, with most titles

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Swiss canton of Ticino on a Swiss topographic survey map at 1:100, 000. Coverage extends south to Lake Lugano, most of Lake Maggiore, & most of Lake Como with the town of Como. Maps in the Swiss topographic survey at 1:100, 000 from Swisstopo are highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, presenting an almost 3-D picture of the country`s mountainous terrain. Coverage is available either as small size standard sheets – Nos 26 to 48, each covering 70 x 48 km / 43 x 30 miles approx, or as larger size maps
- Nos. 101 onwards, each covering 100 x 70 km / 62 x 43 miles approx. Both formats have identical cartography, with contours at 50-metres intervals. Standard sheets include margin ticks showing latitude & longitude in steps of 10`, & both formats have an overprint showing the Swiss national grid lines at 10km intervals; latest editions of the larger sheets now have the Swiss grid lines at 1km intervals. Standard sheets have a map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. The larger sheets have no legend but a separate “ Conventional Signs” leaflet, in English, can be provided with the map. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Tick Bite Fever is the unconventional memoir of a very unconventional childhood. In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun`s family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. His father, who was a doctor, had lived in Africa before (but had felt it expedient to leave when the South African government realised he was carting explosives around in the boot of his car for the ANC). For Dave, Kenya was bemusingly new. It would be his home for the next 16 years. In Kenya, the childhood memoir takes on a rather surreal tone! On the way home from school, closed because a pair of lions are padding around the playground, Dave is mugged by baboons. Meet Dave`s favourite pet Achilles, the almost indestructible dog! Find out about ` Nairobi snow`
- & the national radio station that only has three records. & read about Dave & his Dad spending happy Sunday afternoons being chased by a herd of elephants. Enchantingly funny, Tick Bite Fever is a tale of the fading innocence of childhood, miles ahead of the competition.
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