`A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolano fan`s bookshelf.. .the sentences whizz over your head like bullets` Daily Telegraph Antwerp was Roberto Bolano`s first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he`d written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels & deserted campsites on the Costa Brava, & filled with hapless girls, failed poets, & shifty policemen, Antwerp is a short & cinematic experimental crime novel spliced together with voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers-by, from an omniscient narrator, from ` Roberto Bolano`. Intense & irrepressible, the novel is a personal declaration of the power of literature; reading it is to be present at the birth of Bolano`s enterprise in prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes. ` It`s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolano` Nicole Krauss, Guardian ...

Central Antwerp, Bruges & Ghent in a series of handy pocket street plans from Freytag & Berndt. Town centre of each city is presented at 1:12, 500 on a separate 26x 27cm panel accompanied by an index. On the reverse, publisher’s recommendations are also listed separately for each city. Unlike other titles in this series, this title does not panels with a road map or the Fact File. Each map in Freytag & Berndt’s City Pocket series is laminated, so waterproof & tear-resistant, & highlights the publishers’ recommendations of five best choices in five categories: shopping, restaurants & cafes, culture, nightlife & sights. On one side is an indexed street plan annotated with colour-coded markers highlighting the publishers’ recommendations, all listed on the reverse of the map with brief notes in several languages. In larger cities the plans cover only the central districts. Also provided are a small road map of the city’s environs, if appropriate a diagram of the metro network, & a Fact Box with phone numbers for tourist offices, car hire & emergency services. Map legend & notes on the recommendations include English. To see other titles is this series please click on the series link. ...

Antwerp
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Antwerp, an original antique map by S.D.U.K., published in London, 1844. Steel plate, coloured. Map size 29 x 30 cm, overall mounted size 54 x 46 cm.A detailed map of Antwerp published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was founded by John, Earl Russell, & Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England in 1827. The Society's main purpose was to encourage universal literacy by publishing numbers of books of good quality that would be affordable to all. These town plans were published in perhaps the grandest of the Society's publications
- their atlas entitled Maps Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge, first issued by Baldwin & Cradock, & then re-issued by other publishers, including Chapman & Hall & latterly Edward Stanford. The map

Includes:: a vignette view of Antwerp from the road to Mechlin, Brussels & Louvin. Along the bottom of the map the city's principal buildings are depicted. The map was engraved by B.R. Davies after W.B. Clarke. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford


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Antwerp & its conurbation on 155 pages of detailed street mapping, covering 49 communes in a paperback pocket atlas from De Rouck Geocart. The atlas provides continuous mapping for the whole area at 1:15, 000, with central Antwerp also shown at 1:12, 500. Streets which are part of the national road network are annotated with their road numbers & motorway junctions are shown with names. One way streets & tram lines are marked. Within the Antwerp port area dock names & quay numbers are shown together with names of main companies & businesses trading there.A wide range of symbols highlight various institutions, facilities & services. The maps have no geographical coordinates (i.e. no UTM or latitude & longitude, but they do show 500m lines of the Lambert projection of Belgium ...

Alta Via`s topographical cycling maps emphasize car-free cycling routes or the so-called Voies Vertes (Green Routes), a cycling network that runs through Belgium & Luxembourg. All LF & Ravel cycle routes are included, supplemented with old railways & towpaths that have been transformed into bike paths. The map also lists all youth hostels, bivouac areas, trekking huts, etc. The scale is 1:75, 000 Printed on Stone-paper. ...

A street map of Antwerp in a jigsaw format: Extra Goods introduces the pleasure of learning a city by play with a new series of magnetic puzzles reproducing the worlds major cites. This 100 pieces puzzle is presented in a beautiful tin box, decorated with a section of the street plan. The perfect gift for inhabitants, tourists & fans. The tin

Features:- 100 pieces magnetic puzzle- dimensions: a puzzle surface of 26cm x 35 cm-

Dimensions of the box: height 9 cm; diameter 7 cm- up-to-date cartography supplied by by Falk Verlag- Made in Germany To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Antwerp in a series of handy size, detailed & indexed city centre street plans of main towns in the Netherlands & Flanders including Brussels from Falk, highlighting recommended walks & places of interest, with six best sights prominently marked & cross-referenced to brief descriptions. The plan of Antwerp highlight two walks (the historic centre plus new Antwerp, 22 museums & 9 recommendations for shopping areas or centres. The network of streets & small connecting passages is very clearly presented. Metro stations are marked & tram routes are shown with line numbers & stops. The plans show cycle paths & for drivers indicate main traffic arteries & car parks. Symbols show various facilities such as tourist information centres, markets, canal cruise offices, etc. On the reverse, the street index is accompanied by a calendar of main events, a list of museums, plus contact details for publishers’ recommendations. Map legend & all the text about recommended sights, etc, include English. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:50, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National. Contour interval varies according to the terrain, from 2.5 metres in the coastal areas to 10 metres in the Ardennes. The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). Each standard sheet covers Approx. 32 x 20 km / 20 x 12 miles, with larger maps published for the border or coastal areas. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 is overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 topographic survey, showing the exact coverage of each sheet. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 50K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. Maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders – to see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Antwerp Province at 1:100, 000 in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps from the Nationaal Geografisch Instituut/ Institut Géographique National, Belgium`s national survey organization, each with a separate index booklet covering the whole country. Described by the publishers as a topographic series, the maps do carry all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale, but are not contoured & show altitude only by spot heights. Colours & graphics present the terrain & land cover: rocks, dunes, moors & heathl&, orchards, woodlands, swamps & marshl&, etc. Road network is finely graded according to width & the number of lanes. Footpaths are marked, but the maps do not distinguish between waymarked hiking paths or long-distance GR routes & other local paths. The maps also indicate administrative subdivisions of the provinces into districts & communes. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Titles covering larger provinces are double-sided. The index booklet supplied with each map covers the whole country &, where appropriate, list alternative versions of place names. Map legend & explanatory text in the booklet include English. ...