OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Street by Street Edinburgh Midi" has been fully updated for 2008 with a stylish new cover design in a handy glovebox size. The maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants pubs hotels one-way streets 24-hour petrol stations & car parks. Quick to navigate & featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting these maps are all you need to keep you on the move." ...

Walking Edinburgh contains 24 themed walking tours of 1-6 miles which offer the walker an opportunity to discover the history architecture skulduggery & the ghost stories of the city while not missing those all-important places to stop & admire the view or to have a cup of coffee. First-time & regular visitors will relish the carefully designed tours which explore Edinburghs best-known landmarks as well as the secret places known only by locals. ...

It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it's alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Plot your path to the past with a frightful full-colour map of the city's horrible highlights
- climb up the cursed castle for tales of reckless raids & hit the High Street for a whole host of historical horrors.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Experience all of Edinburghs attractions with this up-to-date authoritative guide packed with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun & feel relaxed from the moment they arrive at their holiday destination
- thats what Marco Polo Guides are all about. Discover boutique hotels authentic restaurants the citys trendiest places & night spots get tips on shopping & what to do on a tight budget as well as plenty of ideas for travel with kids. Also contains: the Perfect Day Festivals & Events Travel Tips Links Blogs Apps & more & a comprehensive index. The Scottish capital has always been vibrant & cosmopolitan without compromising its traditional Scottish heritage of kilts bagpipes folk music & whisky. It is divided into two distinct parts the Old Town & New Town which are both listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A practical pocket-sized guide MARCO POLO Edinburgh takes you on a journey through time. Take a stroll through this city of international festivals churches & cemeteries monuments & museums creepy stories & strange happenings. The Insider Tips reveal where you can drink beer made from seaweed where Edinburghs closest beach resort is situated & why the station clock is always two minutes ahead. The Best Of pages show you things you can find only in Edinburgh recommend places to go for free things to do on a rainy day & how best to relax & unwind. Find out Whats Hot in Edinburgh
- whether art cafes vintage second-hand shops or places to watch football in 3D. The City Walks chapter leads you through the citys literary past as well as to the oldest pub in Scotland
- dating from 1360. Finally the Dos & Donts point out some of the things you need to be aware of & watch out for when visiting the city. MARCO POLO Edinburgh provides comprehensive coverage of the city. To help you find your way around theres a detailed street atlas inside a useful public transport map in the backcover plus a handy pull-out map. A must-have for all travellers including those who havent bought a travel guide in the past
- all this for only GBP5.99!



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The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture & man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock
- a volcanic plug
- which constantly draws the eye from all parts of the city. Sloping down from it is a jagged outline of impossibly high medieval tenements lining the Royal Mile which is punctuated at the foot of the tail of glacial debris by Holyrood Palace. That Edinburgh is beautiful is not in doubt. It is a city blended in to the countryside with the Firth of Forth as the northern backdrop a necklace of hills in all other directions. The history however has been less harmonious largely due to warring with the English but also because of religious turmoil & social unrest. The vibrant capital today draws thousands of visitors not only for the historical sights but also for the annual International Festivals of the arts music & literature.

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Edith Cavell was born in 1865 daughter of a Norfolk vicar & shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British & French soldiers & helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England Edith worked as a governess in the UK & abroad before training as a nurse in London in 1895. To Edith nursing was a duty a vocation but above all a service. By 1907 she had travelled most of Europe & become matron of her own hospital in Belgium where under her leadership a ramshackle hospital with few staff & little organization became a model nursing school. When war broke out Edith helped soldiers to escape the war by giving them jobs in her hospital finding clothing & organizing safe passage into Holl&. In all she assisted over two hundred men. When her secret work was discovered Edith was put on trial & sentenced to death by firing squad. She uttered only 130 words in her defence. A devout Christian the evening before her death she asked to be remembered as a nurse not a hero or a martyr & prayed to be fit for heaven. When news of Ediths death reached Britain army recruitment doubled. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great Wars finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking courageous & independent woman. ...

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In 1903 Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas & gardens. She gathered her household together & set off with her husband her housekeeper & her small dogs on a four-month tour of Italy. Her articles were published in 1904 as Italian Villas & their Gardens. One of the first books to treat the subject of Italian garden architecture seriously it influenced a generation of garden writers & landscape architects. Nearly 100 years later photographer & writer Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey following Edith Wharton's footsteps around Italy to photograph the best surviving gardens from her book & to tell the story of how each one was made. her lively text describes the patrons & architects who created the gardens & explores their hidden symbolic meaning. ...