During much of his life Voltaire`s plays & verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit & commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice & eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance & persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, & his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent his last twenty-five years. With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs & tireless battles against critics, Church & King, Roger Pearson`s brilliant biography brings Voltaire vividly to life. ...

Volterra & its environs at 1:25, 000 in a series of hiking maps from Edizioni Multigraphic covering Tuscany, parts of Umbria, & the adjoining areas. The cartography is rather old fashioned & sometimes not as clear as in the other map series but for many areas, especially for parts of Tuscany, these are the only hiking maps available. Most maps have contours at 25-metre intervals, with some relief shading & colouring for forests. An overprint highlights hiking paths, including all the popular hiking routes such as the Grandi Sentieri della Provincia di Siena, etc. The overprint also shows campsites &, where appropriate, mountain refuges & other types of alpine accommodation. Some of the maps indicate latitude & longitude at the map corners, but with longitude sometimes based on Rome rather than Greenwich. Map legends vary, most maps include English. Some maps include street plans & additional notes on the region. IN THIS TITLE: the map has contours at 25m intervals & spot heights. Waymarked footpaths are highlighted. No geographical coordinates are provided. On the reverse is an indexed street plan of Volterra with a list of 18 places of interest highlighted on it. Also provided are notes about the town & its sights. Map legend & the notes include English. ...

Lonely Planet`s ” Volunteer
- A Traveller`s Guide to Making a Difference Around the World” is a comprehensive handbook on volunteering
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Administrative provinces of the Ukraine on indexed road maps at 1:250, 000, each with a town centre street plan of its capital city. All place names are in Cyrillic only, but the map legend

Includes:: English. Coverage of the larger provinces is divided between the two sides of the map. Road network is presented in great detail, from international roads, shown with their E numbers, to dirt roads & country paths. Driving distances are marked on main, secondary & selected local roads; the maps also show border crossings, fuel stations, car service stations, & traffic patrol service points. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. The maps also show boundaries of districts into which each region (oblast) is subdivided, & indicate their administrative headquarters. Topography is indicated by spot height, plus boundaries of national parks & other protected areas, & colouring and/or graphics for forests, orchards, vineyards, swamps & salt marshes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ & 15’ respectively, & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a local table of driving distances & a street plan of the region’s administrative capital annotated with locations of selected hotels, car parks & petrol stations, museums & monuments, etc. In some titles more street plans are included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: supplies of all maps published by the Kartografija in Kiev are irregular & we cannot guarantee a definite delivery time for titles currently not in stock. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.






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The Maverick`s surf point near Half Moon Bay, California, is one of the most dangerous places in the world to catch a ride on a wave. It is also the site of the ultimate challenge of big wave surfing: the Maverick`s Surf Contest. Mark Kreidler takes the reader inside the fifty-foot waves of Maverick`s & inside the lives of the competitors who challenge them. He introduces the reader to the man who first dared to ride a wave at Maverick`s, Jeff Clark. Kreidler`s riveting account of the 2010 season captures the jaw-dropping performance of South Africa`s Chris Bertish
- who was the best of twenty-four surfers amid the biggest waves many had ever seen
- as well as Clark`s clashes with the contest`s management. A thrilling account of the culture of high-risk, high-adrenaline athletes, The Voodoo Wave is also a story of what happens when love of the endeavour collides with the realities of business in the twenty-first century.

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One of the titles in a series of provincial topographic maps derived from generalising the cartography of the 1:50, 000 survey. Topography is shown by contours at 100m intervals, spot heights, hill-shading & graphic relief. Colours & graphics distinguish landscape types e.g. forests, vineyards, swamps. The attractive, finely-drawn detail

Includes:: minor roads, tracks, railways, chairlifts, water features, national parks, & administrative boundaries. Small symbols show many landmarks e.g. towers, castles, refuges, isolated buildings. Some of the place names are in very small print. The maps have a UTM grid, with latitude lines at intervals of 12` & logintude at 20`. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a small map with administrative sub-divisions of the province.





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Map No. 292, Vorarlberg (2-map set), including a nature guide to local wild flowers, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe ...

Tyrol & Vorarlberg provinces of Austria on an indexed, double-sided touring map at 1:175, 000 from Hallwag Kümmerly + Frey, printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Coverage, with a generous overlap between the sides, extends from Lake Constance eastwards across the Austrian Alps to popular holiday resorts of Zell am See & Kaprun, the peaks of the Glockner massif & Lienz. North/south the map extends from the German Alps to Bressanone/ Brixen in the Italian South Tyrol. Clear & easy to read road network highlights scenic roads & indicates motorway junction numbers & services, steep gradients & winter closures, roads not recommended to or closed to caravans, etc. Driving distances are marked on main & on most connecting local routes. Railway lines are shown with stations & include heritage tourist routes. Various places of interest are highlighted. The map also indicates campsites & youth hostels. Topography is presented by light, unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, etc, plus colouring for woodlands & boundaries of national/natural parks. The map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other maps in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 292, Vorarlberg (2-map set), including a nature guide to local wild flowers, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website. * Cartography:* all the maps are contoured with additional shading & graphic relief to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10 metres in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous parts of the two countries. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. New editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.* Geographical coordinates:* unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. * Map legend:* most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.* Other
Features:* some titles now include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have booklets with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names.*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!* * Booklets:* many titles come with booklets describing the area and/or various hiking routes. These booklets are in * German only*, apart from a handful of titles where an English language booklet is specifically indicated in the individual description. So, unless English language booklet is actually mentioned, the map can only be supplied with a German booklet. These booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, most titles now include * full English language map legend.*
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Vorarlberg on a detailed road map at 1:100, 000 from Freytag & Berndt with numerous cycling routes, indicating unpaved paths, routes with heavy motorized traffic & gradient marking. Symbols mark various types of accommodation, including campsites & youth hostels, bike retail & repair facilities, viewpoints, places of interest, etc. Topography is shown by relief shading & spot heights. The map has a 10km UTM grid. On the reverse is an index of localities with their UTM coordinates, plus street plans of main towns & profiles of selected routes. Map legend & all the text include English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...