Thirty years ago, the celebrated American writer Edward Hoagl&, in his early fifties & already with a dozen acclaimed books under his belt, decided to have, instead of a mid-life crisis, a mid-life adventure. Pencil & notebook at the ready, Hoagland lit out to explore & write about one of the last truly wild territories remaining on the face of the earth: Alaska. From the Arctic Ocean to the Kenai Peninsula, & the backstreet bars of Anchorage to the Yukon River, Hoagland traveled the real Alaska from top to bottom. En route, he chronicled the lives of an astonishing & unforgettable array of prospectors, trappers, millionaire freebooters, drifters, oilmen, Inuits, & a remarkably kind & capable frontier nurse named Linda. In his foreword, novelist Howard Frank Mosher describes Edward Hoagland's Alaska travel memoir as the best book ever written about America's last best place. In the tradition of Twain's Life on the Mississippi & Jonathon Rabin's Old Glory, with a beautiful love story at its heart, this is an American masterwork by a writer hailed by the Washington Post as the Thoreau of our times. Praise for Edward Hoagland: America's most intelligent & wide-ranging essayist-naturalist. (Philip Roth). Edward Hoagland is excitingly smart. (Annie Dillard). Hoagland's writing is second to no one's. (Robert Stone). Hoagland is our wild world's literary virtuoso. (Annie Proulx). ...

Alaska`s Inside Passage on a double-sided map from ITMB presenting the coastline of British Columbia & the panhandle at 1:900, 000, with the rest of the route at 1:1, 875, 000; plus large, clear street plans of central Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria & Anchorage. On one side is the area from Seattle to Prince Rupert BC, accompanied by street plans of central Seattle, Vancouver & Victoria. On the reverse mapping at 1:900, 000 continues along the panhandle to the Yukon Bay & the Malaspina Glacier, with an inset at 1:1, 875, 000 covering the coast further west to include the Kenai Peninsula & northwards beyond Anchorage to the Denali National Park. A second inset provides a street plan of central Anchorage. On both sides mapping at 1:900, 000 covers not just the immediate coastal area but extends further inl&, particularly in British Columbia where Whistler is included. Symbols indicate various places of interest including campsites. Maps at both scales have altitude colouring & spot heights (elevation shown in feet) with plenty of names of geographical

Features: islands, straights, sounds, bays & inlets, also mountain ranges, peaks, glaciers, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. Cruise & ferry route are marked & the maps also indicate local airports & airfields. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° & on the inset at 2° intervals. Each side has a separate index. Street plans are annotated with various facilities, including selected hotels, & places of interest. To see other regional titles from ITMB covering USA please click on the series link.

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Alaska’s Inside Passage on a waterproof & tear-resistant map at 1:880, 000 from the National Geographic Society, with extensive notes about places of interest, plus on the reverse a map of Alaska & more information about its protected areas, etc. On one side is the map the Inside Passage along the straights of the state’s panhandle, showing shipping routes, towns & settlements, roads & airports for scheduled air or seaplane services, & highlighting the region`s numerous national parks & other protected nature areas. The map is accompanied by notes about the islands, wildlife, water features & tides, weather, etc. On the reverse is a map showing the whole of Alaska with the Aleutian Islands at 1:4, 000, 000 with towns, the road network, main ferry connections, airports & the national parks or reserves. Also provided are extensive notes about various aspects of Alaska, including the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, plus a table showing various facilities in Alaska’s national parks. ...

Map No. 641, Alassio
- Imperia, from Kompass in a series of walking maps of selected areas of Italy at 1:50, 000, with hiking
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H&-selected by Alastair Humphreys, read about the incredible journeys undertaken by twenty of the most heroic & impressive explorers who ever lived, including Ibn Battuta (14th-century explorer); Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of Scott`s Antarctic expedition); Michael Collins (Apollo Moon mission astronaut) & Nellie Bly (who travelled round the world in less than 80 days). A wide-spread selection of explorers from young to old, male to female & with a range of abilities, these explorers crossed l&, sea & sky in the name of adventure & may just inspire readers aged 7+ to do the same. Alastair Humphreys was named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012 for his work on the concept of microadventures. ...

The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

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. ...

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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