As the world`s tallest mountain, Everest has held a special fascination for climbers. This collection of real life stories tells of the lengths to which people have gone to get to its summit, & the dangers they`ve experienced, in some cases ending in tragedy. ...

A collection of true stories of piracy, from the first pirates of the Ancient World to the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries. Contains true life stories of hardship & brutality, bringing to life the flamboyant characters of the most famous captains & the men who set out to capture them. ...

A collection of true stories of exploration over the icy wastelands of the North & South Poles, including the fated expedition of Captain Scott of the Antartic & Ernest Shackleton`s epic trek across the snow to save his crew. Stories are illustrated with maps & drawings, & readers can find out more online via Usborne Quicklinks. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Indexed street plan map of Trujillo from Ed. Lima 2000, with additional insets on the reverse extending coverage of the main plan to include the local airport & the town of Laredo. Colours distinguish the city’s main districts, & their estate sub-divisions (urbanizaciones) are identified with block numbers marked along many of the streets. Contour lines depict the relief beyond the town’s margin, & parks or agricultural areas are indicated. Small symbols show main services & facilities. On the reverse is an index for streets, urbanizaciones, & various locations of interest. The map legend & all text are in Spanish only. ...

In 1996, New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump, at a time when the Republican frontrunner was just a Manhattan-centric megalomaniac & failing casino operator mired in his second divorce. After spending months with Trump in his office towers, penthouse apartment, & private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man ”who had aspired to & achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” Since then, Trump has become a serious candidate in the US presidential race, an unlikely tribune of populist rage that has resulted in a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality. Yet Singer`s droll & precise profile has lodged inside Trump`s head as a continuing irritant
- & it`s not hard to see why. In TRUMP & ME, Singer revisits his former subject & outlines his evolution from swaggering buffoon to Republican nominee in one of the most bizarre & alarming elections in American history.
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With celebrity feuds, odes to the haters & losers, & crisis-provoking tweets on every page, the TRUMPisms 2019 Day-to-Day Calendar puts Donald Trump`s ”very stable genius” on full display. It leaves no doubt that the man now in charge of the world`s mightiest nuclear arsenal is ”like, a really smart person.” Prescient observations such as, ” Some of our presidents have been incredible jerk-offs” & thoughtful queries like, ” Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?” will further assure readers of his brilliance. ...

A New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, & Atlantic columnist & media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful & hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy & America`s future.” From Russia to South Africa, from Turkey to the Philippines, from Venezuela to Hungary, authoritarian leaders have smashed restraints on their power. Media freedom & judicial independence have eroded. The right to vote remains, but the right to have one`s vote counted fairly may not. Until the US presidential election of 2016, the global decline of democracy seemed a concern for other peoples in other lands.... That complacent optimism has been upended by the political rise of Donald Trump. The crisis is upon Americans, here & now.” Quietly, steadily, Trump & his administration are damaging the tenets & accepted practices of American democracy, perhaps irrevocably. As he & his family enrich themselves, the presidency itself falls into the hands of the generals & financiers who surround him. While much of the country has been focused on Russia, David Frum has been collecting the lies, obfuscations, & flagrant disregard for the traditional limits placed on the office of the presidency. In Trumpocracy, he documents how Trump & his administration are steadily damaging the tenets & accepted practices of American democracy. During his own White House tenure as George W. Bush`s speechwriter, Frum witnessed the ways the presidency is limited not by law but by tradition, propriety, & public outcry, all now weakened. Whether the Trump presidency lasts two, four, or eight more years, he has changed the nature of the office for the worse, & likely for decades. In this powerful & eye-opening book, Frum makes clear that the hard work of recovery starts at home. Trumpocracy outlines how Trump could push America toward illiberalism, what the consequences could be for our nation & our everyday lives, & what we can do to prevent it. ...

`I have the best ghosts, everyone says so` President Ebenezer Trump is a rich old fool, whose heart is as small as his hands & whose words are as false as his hair. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by three spirits, all intent on changing his evil ways: Bill Clinton, the jovial Ghost of Christmas Past; Barack Obama, the big-eared Ghost of Christmas Present; & the terrifying Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, who shows him how abolishing Obamacare will finish off Tiny Tim...` This Scrooge is gonna be yooooge...` ...

Map No. 1213, Trun, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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