In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah & the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining ambition is to return to Brazil in triumph, but his friendship with the mad, mercurial king of Dahomey is fraught with danger & threatens his dream. ...

Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) & Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 & probably the grandest & most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon`s determination to control every aspect of his daughters` lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast & glittering world of the Twenties & Thirties. Irene, intensely musical & a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia (` Cimmie`) married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra (` Baba`), the youngest & most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales`s best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie`s early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long & passionate affair with Mosley & a liaison with Mussolini`s ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, & the arrival of Wallis Simpson & the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at `the Dorch` (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene & Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

A KILLER WITH A MESSAGE. Two men are dead. Both had been bullies at school. A single clue has been found at the scene: a class photo from 1982, with two faces neatly crossed out. A DETECTIVE WHO CAN`T LET GO. Fabian Risk is the lead detective on the case. He`s also one of the children in the photograph. He thought he`d left his schooldays behind. Now his classmates are dying for the sins of their childhood...CAN YOU EVER HIDE FROM JUSTICE? ` More gripping than Jo Nesbo` Tony Parsons. ...

Victoria in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant state maps of Australia, with enlargements for popular areas & diagrams of main highways. Each title presents the whole of the state on one side, with its rail & road networks. Intermediate driving distances are given on most minor unsealed roads & vehicle tracks are also marked. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted, with the topography indicated by names of mountain ranges, spot heights for main peaks, rivers & lakes. Selected places of interest are marked. On the reverse each title has enlargements of popular areas highlighting tourist routes. Neither the main map nor the enlargements have any geographical coordinates, but all are indexed. Also included are street plans showing accommodation & places of interest, & diagrams of the highways connecting the region ...

Victoria & Vancouver Island 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 ...

Moon Victoria & Vancouver Island is a 100-page compact guide covering Victoria & Vancouver Isl&, including the Vicinity of Victoria, Southern Gulf Islands, Nanaimo & Vicinity, Highway 4 to the West Coast, Tofino, Oceanside, Comox Valley, & Northern Vancouver Isl&. Author Andrew Hempstead offers seasoned advice on what sights are must-sees & he

Includes:: maps with sightseeing highlights so planning your time is easy. This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, & transportation. Helpful maps make navigating this popular northern getaway uncomplicated. Moon Spotlight guides are affordably-priced, lightweight guides covering a smaller geographic region than Moon Handbooks or Outdoors guidebook series. The travel content in a Spotlight guide is pulled directly from individual chapters of larger Handbooks or Outdoors titles, with no introductory information (such as When to Go or Planning Your Trip), & no indexes. The result is compact guides to popular destinations that provide travelers with what they need to explore a specific locale in depth with fewer pages of very focused information.

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Queen of Great Britain & ruler of an empire on which the sun never set, Victoria gave her name to an age that came to represent progress, expansion & industrialization. She ruled for an unprecedented 64 years, coming to the throne in 1837 at the young age of 19 & dying in 1901. This book is an illuminating & incisive overview of Victoria`s life & reign, revealing her happy marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, her subsequent friendship with the ghillie John Brown, & showing how she went on to celebrate both her Gold & Diamond Jubilees. Deborah Jaffe looks at every aspect of a remarkable era, including its politics, art, science & society & shows why, over a century after her death, Victoria`s influence endures today. Accompanied with over 200 glorious images, this is a fascinating tribute to one of the greatest British monarchs. ...

Victoria – The High Country Atlas & Guide: an A4, spiral-bound guide & atlas from Hema, with an illustrated guide to the region & its main attractions, an indexed road atlas, advice on planning road trips, etc. The opening chapter section provides background information on the region’s history, fauna & flora, etc. Chapter 2 covers planning the trip, including a “ Where to stay” section with lists of supply centres & ski resorts. This is followed by a “ Things to do” section listing various recreational pursuits & providing information on organized tours & guiding services. The region’s three main attractions: the Great Alpine Road, Alpine National Park, plus Snowy River & Baw Baw National Park are each given a separate chapter. 25 top 4WD trips in the High Country & Central & East Gippsland are highlighted on detailed map extracts, accompanied by a description of the route & information on facilities including campsites. The last part of this title provides a detailed road atlas of the whole area, with contoured mapping & locations annotated to show what services can be found there. The atlas is index & for GPS users has a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 30’. To see the list of Hema’s road atlases/guides of Australia & of its individual states please click on the series link. ...