Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:100, 000, the Vägkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 79 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:100, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 75 x 80km. The maps have contours at 10 metre intervals, plus relief shading & colouring for different types of landscape: open l&, forests, alvar, marshes, etc. Boundaries of national parks & nature reserves, areas prohibited to cross-country vehicles, & restricted entry military zones are marked. The maps indicate privately maintained local roads, cycle paths with wind shelters, footpaths, etc, & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 10’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Trostberg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Altenmarkt a.d. Alz, Obing, Garching a.d. Alz, Schnaitsee, Tacherting, Traunreut. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Meet Ermine, a small stoat on a big journey. In fact, she`s on a world tour & determined to fill her scrapbook with tales of adventure. Armed with her toolkit & feathered hat, Ermine arrives in New York to stay with Michael Megabucks & his son
- & is soon fighting off alligators at Central Park Zoo & outwitting bungling diamond thieves! The first in a br&-new series in the best traditions of Paddington & Squishy Mc Fluff, Ermine`s travels are full to the brim with adventure, derring-do & a whole host of fabulous characters.
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Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who`s `got her hooks into a rich man`s pup`. Before too long Marlowe`s up to his neck in corpses & cops & he`s taken pity on the girl. There`s nothing like making trouble of your business... The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat & won`t let go until the last page is turned. Praise for Raymond Chandler:` Chandler`s prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun. Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction` Scottish Field` One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain` Sunday Times ` Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner... An original... A great artist` Boston Review` Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, & America has never looked the same to us since` Paul Auster Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century`s most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, & later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing & his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator. It is in Marlowe`s long shadow that every fictional detective must stand
- & under the influence of Raymond Chandler`s addictive prose that every crime author must write.
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Inspired by the Indian Mutiny of 1857, ” The Siege of Krishnapur” is set in the fictional town of that name where a British garrison withstands a four-month siege by mutineers. Eventually rescued after undergoing terrible privations, the leading characters all find their ideals tested & their smug assumptions of military & moral superiority severely shaken. In ” Troubles”, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland in the aftermath of World War I in order to meet his fiancee Angela in a remote seaside hotel owned by her father. Angela dies unexpectedly, but Archer remains in Kilnalough, captivated by the Majestic & its inhabitants, & seemingly unaware of the approaching political storm as Ireland dissolves into revolt & civil war. Both novels combine high comedy with vivid realism & reveal Farrell as ”one of the finest post-colonial novelists”. (John Sutherland). ...

What is the difference between mean & median, blatant & flagrant, flout & flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With ” Troublesome Words”, journalist & bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise & entertaining guide to the problems of English usage & spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`, this superb book is the place to find out. ...

The pseudonymous Italian author of Days of Abandonment returns with a daughter`s attempt to unlock the mystery of her mother`s death by drowning following years of domestic abuse. Days before her body washed ashore near her hometown of Naples, Amalia called her oldest daughter, Delia, now 45, with shocking news that she was with a man—not her estranged husb&, a two-bit painter—then hung up, laughing. After the funeral (Amalia`s husband doesn`t show), Delia goes in search of the story behind the expensive new brassiere Amalia was found wearing at her death, incongruous for a poor seamstress who deliberately downplayed her good looks to avoid arousing her husband`s savage jealousy. Caserta, a man who acted as Delia`s father`s agent as well as rival for Amalia`s attention, plays a role here—and in Delia`s past. In tactile, beautifully restrained prose, Ferrante makes the domestic violence that tore the household apart evident, including the child Delia`s attempts to guard her mother from the beatings of her father. By the time of the denouement, Ferrante has forcefully delineated how the complicity in violence against women perpetuates a brutal cycle of repetition & silence. ...

Richard Brautigan`s wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here`s a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco`s Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America`s rural waterways & ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. With pure inventiveness & free-wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America, & the hunt for a bit of trout fishing. Funny, wild & sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration
- of a country & a mind.
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Trowbridge 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. Two versions have published for this area showing how the town changed across the years. The map shows the town of Trowbridge including Longfield & Lower Studley. The left hand side of the map shows a large area of farml&, interrupted by Trowle Manor Court Farm, Talbot Farm & Cockhill Farm. The contrasting right hand side displays Trowbridge & the Great Western Railway track that cuts through it. St Thomas`s Church, St James`s Church, St Stephen`s Church, St John`s RC Church, the Holy Trinity Chapel & two Methodist Chapels are illustrated on the sheet. Other places of interest are also marked on the maps such as the Royal Artillery Barracks, Usher`s Brewery, Bellefield House, & its various mills & iron works. The 1899 map is double-sided &

Includes:: part of adjacent sheet 38.08 on the reverse; this continues coverage eastward to include Ashton Mills & Hilperton Road. The 1886 version is in full colour, taken from the beautiful 1st Edition h&-coloured map. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series 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. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Street plan of Troyes, part of an extensive series covering French cities & towns from Blay-Foldex, the country’s largest, oldest & most experienced publisher of urban mapping. Blay plans include outer suburbs &, where appropriate, adjoining localities forming part of the urban agglomeration & provide brief descriptions of the town’s main sights, contact details for hotels & other places of interest, etc. The plans show one way streets, car parks & pedestrian zones. Important public buildings are clearly marked & identified. Blay street maps are usually double-sided & include an enlargement for the town centre & a street index with separate lists of “edifices publics”: main public buildings, places of worship, schools, sport facilities, stations, etc. Each of the outer suburbs or the adjoining localities, identified with its postcode, has a separate index. Many titles also provide a road map of the environs. All the text is in French only.PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of Blay-Foldex street plans of French towns & cities please click on the series link – the series description also

Includes:: a comparison between Blay & IGN street plans.

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