` They`re all scared. Everybody`s afraid.`
- Eddy Merckx ` Nothing compares to the Ventoux.`
- Lance Armstrong The French call

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` They`re all scared. Everybody`s afraid`
- Eddy Merckx` Nothing compares to the Ventoux`
- Lance Armstrong` Heart-stirring

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The environs of Ventspils on a contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:75, 000 from the Latvian publishers Jana Seta, with detailed presentation the road or rail networks, places of interest & tourist facilities, etc. Ventspils, Piltene & Ugale are also covered by street plans at 1:20, 000. Maps in this series are double-sided with a good overlap between the sides. Topography & landscape are shown by contours at 10m intervals, numerous spot heights, & colouring/graphics for different types of land use or terrain (orchards, forests, swamps, etc). Finely graded road network indicates “difficult to travel unsurfaced roads”, shows driving distances on main & secondary routes, & indicates locations of petrol stations. Railway lines are shown with stations & stops; the maps also show narrow gauge lines & abandoned routes. Interesting locations are highlighted & symbols indicate hotels & other tourist accommodation, campsites, viewpoints, hills & interesting natural sites, etc. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 5’ & 10’ respectively. Map legend

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Ventura & Santa Barbara Beaches in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn`t really know anything about, & could he go in there on foot & take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure & discovery, flying from London across Europe & Africa, & after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa. ...

” Vera Brittain & the First World War” tells the remarkable story of the author behind ” Testament of Youth” whilst charting the book`s ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war`s outbreak. In the midst of her studies at Oxford when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, treating soldiers in London, Malta & Etaples in France. The events of the First World War were to have an enormous impact on her life. Four of Brittain`s closest friends including her fiance Roland Leighton & her brother Edward Brittain MC were killed in action, sparking a lifelong commitment to pacifism. In 1933 she published ” Testament of Youth, ” the first of three books dealing with her experience of war. In equal measures courageous, tragic & deeply fascinating, ” Testament of Youth” is one of the most compelling & important works of war literature ever to have been written by a British woman. Mark Bostridge`s ” Vera Brittain & the First World War, ” published to coincide with the film of ” Testament of Youth, ” explores the effects of the First World War on Vera Brittain, both in terms of her personal life & in terms of its effect on her development as a writer & her eventual decision to become a pacifist. Taking advantage of the interest generated by the film, it will bring her story to a new generation & incorporate the most up-to-date research. It will also include a short essay ` From Book to Film`, describing the process of turning ” Testament of Youth” into a major feature film. This will include interviews with the production staff & actors, as well as with members of Vera Brittain`s family, including Shirley Williams. The film, which has been scripted by Juliette Towhidi & is being produced by BBC Films & Heyday Films, the makers of Harry Potter, is currently in production. Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) stars as Brittain, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones, Pompeii) playing her fiance Roland Leighton. ...

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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When Vera Jewel`s bike breaks one morning, she takes matters into her own hands & comes up with some ingenious
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Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the titles in a series of road maps of the administrative states of Mexico, highlighting places of interest. The maps show four different grades of roads, with intermediate driving distances on main routes, railways, local airports, ferry connections & administrative boundaries. Topographic information is limited to names of main mountain ranges, spot heights for main peaks, rivers & lakes. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in Spanish only. On the reverse each title has a black & white version of the same map, highlighting places of interest with brief notes in Spanish only. ...