Map No. 10131, Akkajaure, 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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One night, Akram Khan walks out of his house towards an appointed time & place where he is supposed to detonate a bomb that will end his life & that of many innocent bystanders. As he wanders through the town he encounters Grace, whose life has been marred just as his has, forming an unlikely closeness borne of need & necessity. Akram tells Grace about his seemingly inexorable journey towards radicalization: a childhood within the tight-knit Pakistani community, his complex friendships among outcasts, his disastrous years in the army, & his empty arranged marriage to a woman who remains a stranger. Delicately drawn, Akram`s War is an honest & shocking kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary Britain, & of the ways in which the twists & turns of fate can scar & mark a life. ...

Aksu region at 1:500, 000 in a series of detailed, contoured maps of the mountains of Central Asia derived from the Soviet era topographic survey but with transliterated place names & an English language map legend. Maps in this series provide coverage of the Tien Shan & Pamir Mountains, with the whole of Kyrgyzstan, northern Tajikistan, plus the adjoining regions of Uzbekistan (including Tashkent & Samarkand), southern Kazakhstan (with Almaty) & the Sinkiang Province of China. The maps have contours at 100m intervals, enhanced by altitude colouring & relief shading, with plenty of spot heights & names of various mountain chains, peaks, valleys, etc. Additional colouring and/or graphics indicate glaciers, cliffs, rock boulders, sands, ridges & dunes, mud & salt flats, different types of vegetation, etc. The maps show all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale, including detailed presentation of local roads & tracks, railways, aerodromes, isolated settlements, national & internal administrative borders, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 20’ & 30’ respectively. Map legend is in English. The series was prepared in mid-2000s when all the place names have been transliterated from the original Russian mapping & given, where possible, modern local names for larger towns. Each map provides a guide to the transliteration, as well as English & German glossary for the abbreviations. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000. The series was last revised in the early eighties. Contour interval is 20 meters. In addition to the usual features shown on survey mapping, the maps also include a large amount of information indicating the type of the terrain & land use (block or smooth surfaced lava, clay, boulders, sand & dunes, cultivated area, meadows, pastures, bogs, wetlands, etc.) & details not often found on maps: physicians` residences, parsonages, etc. Each map covers an area of 44 x 40 km / 27 x 25 miles. Margin ticks give latitude & longitude in steps of 6`. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Akureyri
- Mývatn
- Dettifoss area of Iceland at 1:120, 000 in a series of detailed hiking & recreational topographic maps

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Al Ain on a double-sided map from the Dubai-based Explorer Publishing combining a street plan of the city with coverage of a wider area around it. On one side is a plan of the city itself at 1:20, 000 highlighting main governmental or municipal buildings & facilities, plus other places of interest. Border crossing points to Oman are marked. On the reverse is a map of a wider area around the city, including its international airport. The index lists road names, areas & developments, governmental buildings, landmarks, hotels, shopping destinations, useful numbers, etc. All information is in English & all place names are in the Latin alphabet only. ...

Jordan
- Walks, treks, Caves, Climbs & Canyons is Di Taylor & Tony Howard’s Cicerone guide to the outdoor possibilities in one
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”A SERIOUSLY NECESSARY BOOK”. (ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY). ”A MUST READ”. (MIQDAAD VERSI, MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN). ”A TIMELY BOOK”. (BARONESS WARSI). ”HUGELY IMPORTANT”. (PETER OBORNE). ”HEARTENING”. (DAVID ANDERSON QC). 0 In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to explore our often misunderstood Muslim communities, & to experience life on both sides of our increasingly segregated society. The face of Britain is changing. The Muslim population has more than doubled over the last twenty years, & is projected to do so again over the next twenty. A societal shift of this size & speed has inevitably brought growing pains, with the impact on our communities becoming ever more profound
- as well as painful, because in the eyes of many, Islam has a problem: the extremist views of a tiny minority, which, when translated into action, can result in catastrophic violence. The danger of this extremist threat
- or our response to it
- is that we are collectively starting to lose faith in the cultural diversity that has glued our nation together for so long. Our tolerance of others, so often celebrated as a `fundamental British value, ` is at risk. In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to evaluate the impact these seismic shifts have had on our communities. With the rise of nationalist movements, growing racial tensions & an increasingly out of touch political elite, what does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain[unk] What is life like on both sides of this growing religious divide[unk] & what can we do to heal the fractures appearing in our national fabric[unk] Al-Britannia, My Country is a timely & urgent account of life in Britain today, a call to action filled with real-life experience, hard truths & important suggestions for our future.


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In ” Al Dente”, William Black travels the length & breadth of Italy in order to get to the roots of Italian food. Our intrepid gastronome eats whatever gets in his way which often isn`t quite what it seems. If it`s cheese then it may be considered ripe only when it has been predigested by maggots or perhaps made solely from the milk of tired cows. A bowl of pasta might come with donkey sauce. A dish of wind dried tuna apparently

Includes:: its testicles. A lovely risotto has been made with seagull broth... William`s dedication to his task knows alarmingly few bounds. His quest for the most delicious & authentic cooking & the very finest ingredients takes him to some wonderfully familiar places as well as others far off the beaten track: he drinks great coffee in Turin, chases rabbits in Ischia & views the mattanza, the annual tuna catch, off the coast of Sardinia. One minute he`s scoffing eel brodetto, the next waxing lyrical about the joys of frog risotto. & as he eats his way to the country`s culinary heart, he unearths the fascinating story of his own family`s role in Italian history.A joy from cover to cover & 100 per cent mierda di bufala-free, ” Al Dente” is a must for anyone with an interest in Italy or its food. It will probably make you want to book a holiday & it will certainly make you laugh.

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Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation & a tiramisu cafe where magic is surely on the menu... This highly original interpretation of Rome's history, culture, art & religion takes the form of a book about food that's not really about food at all. During his first two years in Rome, David Winner found himself in turn amazed & overwhelmed by its physical, historical & cultural vastness. Then a chance encounter with an extraordinary pudding provided him with the means to start digesting his surroundings. That evening he was struck by the significance of the Roman attitude to food: a unique & unequivocal relationship between sustenance & existence, where every last aspect of life is (and always has been) 'pickled in alimentation'. In Al Dente, Winner takes us on a stroll through the city as he muses idiosyncratically on all things comestible & much else besides. Here we learn about Rome as metropolis & necropolis, about tasty vineyard snails & the food-&-sex scandal that sent Saint Jerome packing. The cinematic greats such as Argento, Fellini & Ferreri are discussed alongside historical political satire where grocery orgies were art & the penis was the subject of hagiographies. There are the bloodthirsty antics of an eighteenth-century executioner who worked for the pope, stories of immolation, architecture & artichokes, & a telephone interview with a nun who makes Eucharistic wafers. There's also a nice 1891 recipe for stewed lamb's head. Winner is a master of wit & diversity with a seemingly insatiable appetite for peculiar detail & disturbances on the cultural landscape. In Al Dente, his ability to explore the world around him as a series of interconnections provides an intriguing new portrait of a remarkable city
- a veritable trifle of Roman bedrock & apogee, cosmos & counterculture to be devoured with gusto. Buon appetito...
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