The same blood runs through their veins. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator at the peak of his career. The other, Mario, is his four-year-old grandson who has barely learned to talk but has a few tricks up his loose-fitting sleeves all the same. The older combatant has lived for years in almost complete solitude. The younger one has been dumped with a grandfather he barely knows for 72 hours. ...

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college
- a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride & wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn`t know who sent the package, or why, yet she can`t get the crime out of her head. But as she delves deeper, & steps back into the mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye...
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Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis`s accessible & dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece & tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich & complex exchanges between Europe & Africa during the Renaissance. ” Trickster Travels” offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial & often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, & is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life & work. ...

Trier on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only. PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Trier & its Environs on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 130 x 87 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Unusual, very attractive street plan of Trier offering a bird’s-eye view of the city with every building drawn to scale with full architectural detail, from street arcades to rooftops & inner courtyards. The plan, updated in 2013, covers the city’s inner districts including the Porta Nigra, the Amphitheatre & the Imperial Baths, & is annotated with small icons of various businesses which sponsored its production. On the reverse is a conventional street plan of the city with its outer suburbs. Street index, in a separate booklet, covers both plans &

Includes:: brief descriptions of the main monuments & places of interest, plus lists of local facilities & various shops & other businesses. All the text is in German only.

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An old woman sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy. She is waiting to be reunited with her son. He was fathered by an S.S. officer & stolen from her sixty-two years before by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation. By focusing on the experiences of one individual, Drndic engages head-on with the traumatic history of WWII & the Holocaust & deals unsparingly with the massacre of Jews in Trieste`s concentration camp. A literary collage comprising photographs, scraps of poetry, interviews & testimonies from the Nuremburg Trials, it is a formally daring work of immense power & scope. ...

Neil Kent`s portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe`s major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the last two centuries: first, on the post-Napoleonic period-its heyday- when Trieste emerged as the otherwise landlocked Habsburg Empire`s gateway to the Adriatic, a rich & thriving city of numerous ethnic & religious groups; then on the period of decline after the First World War, when Italian irredentists longing to recover Dalmatia radiated out from the city; & next on the decades of the Cold War, when Trieste became a marginalized border town, with its link to the Balkans virtually blocked off. Finally the book moves into the contemporary period, when the political & economic reorganisation of the Balkans has made Trieste south-eastern Europe`s gateway to western Europe. While political, economic & social issues form the primary focus, art, literature & architecture, natural geography & aspects relating to health & hygiene are also examined. ...

Trieste on an indexed street plan at 1:10, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint, with an enlargement presenting city’s historic centre in greater detail & clarity at 1:6, 000. 48 important buildings are prominently highlighted. The plan also indicates car parks within the city’s central area. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

Jan Morris (then James) first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves & memories. Here, her thoughts on a host of subjects
- ships, cities, cats, sex, nationalism, Jewishness, civility & kindness
- are inspired by the presence of Trieste, & recorded in or between the lines of this book. Evoking the whole of its modern history, from its explosive growth to wealth & fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste & the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind. Jan Morris`s collection of travel writing & reportage spans over five decades &

Includes:: such titles as Venice, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain, Manhattan `45, A Writer`s World & the Pax Britannica Trilogy. Hav, her novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize & the Arthur C. Clarke Award.



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