In these four stories, written between 1900 & 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea & began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In ” Typhoon” Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain & the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct & intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. ” Falk”, the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, `common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man`, a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the `l&-stories` Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers
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In Tyrannosaur, military vet & amateur fossil hunter Monty Fitzgibbon follows his dream & sets off in the footsteps of Barnum Brown, palaeontologist & discoverer of the first T. Rex remains. Preparing a journal of his adventures, Monty illuminates the history of the early fossil hunters & makes some incredible discoveries of his own. Find inside Monty’s ready-to-build full-colour Tyrannosaur model! ...

Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big & scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur`s egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he`s so out of place that his grisly big sisters call him Tyrannosaurus Drip. Poor little Drip: all he wants is a quiet life munching on water weed.. . ...

Aptanagramy, antigrams, acronyms, bacronyms, palimdromes, paraprosdokians, semordnilaps, paradoxical statements, oxymora, pangrams, malapropisms, eggcorns, oronyms, mondegreens, homophones, grammagrams, chemograms, piano words, euonyms, pleonasms, alternades, kangaroo words, tautonyms, portmanteau words, beheadments, contronyms, heteronyms, capitonyms, & much, much more! This unusual, interesting, fascinating, informative, perplexing book of words has thousands of tricks & words you may, or perhaps may not, already know: how to change black to white in a word chain, what are the longest words in common use, or in Shakespeare, or in the Guinness Book of Records, etc. James Joyce’s two 100-letter words from Finnegans Wake are, of course, there, as is the official 1, 185 letter name of the molecule Carbon 785 Hydrogen 1220 Nitorgen 212 Oxygen 248 Sulfur 2 (sorry, we can`t do subscript!). & why is couscous unusual. & what are the 112 different spellings according to the US Library of Congress and/or used by the New York Times & the Associated Press for the name of the late & unlamented Libyan dictator. Words useful & some maybe not so, words weird & wonderful, words short & very, very long – every page has something for you to discover, unless you are, of course, Rod L. Evans, the book’s author. ...

The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, & the avowed inspiration for Garcia Marquez`s The Autumn of the Patriarch & Roa Bastos`s I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark & dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramon del Valle-Inclan, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, & revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach`s Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipu. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly & democratic opposition. Mean-while, his secret police lock up, torture, & execute students & Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator`s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace. Peter Bush`s new translation of Valle-Inclan`s seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque & disturbing as Goya`s in his The Disasters of War. ...

This is a road map of the region that spreads south of Munich & north of Venice. Five different types of roads are marked. Road numbering & distance between towns are highlighted. Colour shading provides an idea of altitude. Latitude & longitude ticks are given. Map legend

Includes:: English. On the reverse a panorama map of the same region is framed by small photos of major attractions of the regions.

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Tyrol & Vorarlberg provinces at 1:200, 000 in a series of road maps of Austria from Freytag & Berndt, the country’s leading publishers, with a separate index attached to the cover. Information

Includes:: sightseeing routes & long-distance hiking trails. The maps have clear, effective relief shading to show the topography & indicate steep roads with gradient marks, show traffic restrictions & seasonal closures on mountain roads, etc. Tourist information

Includes:: scenic roads & special tourist sightseeing routes, places of interest, campsites & youth hostels, etc. An overprint highlights the national network of the long-distance footpaths indicating, where appropriate, their European numbers. A grid in steps of 10` indicates latitude & longitude. * Map legend

Includes:: English.* A separate index attached to the cover gives the postcode for each locality.





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rol Province ” Top 10 Tips” on an indexed road map at 1:150, 000 from Freytag & Berndt, with highlighting for cycle routes, scenic roads & tourist routes, places of interest, etc, plus descriptions of sights & routes & 11 street plans. An index booklet attached to the map cover provides brief multilingual descriptions of the region’s 10 main sights, plus of descriptions of 8 cycling trails including the Mozart Route, Via Claudia Augusta, etc. City centre street plans cover 11 towns: Innsbruck, Hall in Tirol, Imst, Jenbach, Kitzbühel, Kufstein, Landeck, Reutte, Schwaz, Telfs & Wörgl. Map legend & all the text include English. Maps in F&B’s “ Top 10 Tops” series have relief portrayed by hill-shading without distracting from other detail, & plenty of names of topographic

Features: mountain chains, valley, peaks, etc. National Parks & other protected areas are prominently highlighted. Road network

Includes:: minor local roads & selected cart tracks, shows driving distances are main & selected local, & indicates toll routes, steep gradients, caravan traffic restrictions, seasonal closures on mountain roads, etc. Scenic roads are highlighted, as are cycle routes & special tourist routes. Also marked are the country’s long-distance hiking trails. Railway lines are shown with stations. Picturesque towns & other locations are highlighted & in each title 10 selected main sights are prominently marked & are briefly described in a booklet attached to the map cover. Symbols depict various landmarks, places of interest & facilities, including campsites, youth hostels, viewpoints, historical buildings, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 10` intervals. In addition to the descriptions, accompanying booklets also provide an index listing all locations with their postcodes & street plans main towns in each region – please see individual descriptions for more details. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.



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A 1000-km long mountain bike trail in the very heart of the Austrian Alps in a 172-page German language guide from Verlag Esterbauer. The route, which can be divided into shorter circuits, takes in many of the region’s top tourist destinations including Innsbruck, Kitzbühel, Mayrhofen, Kufstein, Landeck, Ischgl, St. Anton, etc. IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING
- ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH (please see our sample image) & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German. Detailed maps at 1:35, 000 show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. In addition to gradient markings along the route, the base map has contours at 50m intervals & route profiles are provided for each stage. Descriptions of each stage are accompanied by details of recommended accommodation & cycle repair facilities. All the pages are removable from the ring-binder cover, waterproof & tear-resistant. presented by the Verlag Esterbauer in guide with maps at 1:50, 000 showing the route & its variants. Extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.ABOUT THE BIKELINE SERIES: all the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans. To see the list of other titles in the Bikeline series please click on the series link.





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Map No. 10135, Tysfjord, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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