Map No. 10047, Aurl&, 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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Aurlandsdalen
- Østerbø area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:25, 000 with cartography based on
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Aurlandsdalen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000 with cartography from Norway’s topographic survey & additional tourist information. Contours lines are drawn at 20m intervals. The overprint varies from title to title, but

Includes:: local footpaths, in some cases distinguishing between easy & more difficult trails, as well as mountain huts & campsites. Many titles also indicate cycle or ski routes, other accommodation possibilities, sport & recreational facilities, including alpine skiing slopes, places of interest, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks giving latitude & longitude. Map legend

Includes:: English. Several titles have on the reverse additional tourist information, although in most cases in Norwegian only. To see the list of Turkart maps at 1:50, 000 & links to Turkart series at 25K, 100K & Hiking Sets please click on the series link above.



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This Aurlandsfjellet National Tourist Route Map belongs to a series of 18 map & postcards sets describing popular tourist routes all over Norway. The map set

Includes:: a map in 1: 50, 000 presenting an accurate topography (based on the Norwegian topographic survey) which describes local footpaths, cycle or ski routes, sport & recreational facilities, places of interest, places to stay & eat, viewpoints. Aurlandsfjellet National Tourist Route is a 47-kilometre-long stretch of road between Aurlandsvangen by the Aurlandsfjord & Lærdal by the Sognefjord in the county of Sogn og Fjordane in Fjord Norway. The route between Aurland & Lærdal has its highest point at 1, 306 metres above seal level. There is snow along the roads most of the summer. Because of this, the road is also called the ” Snow road”. Travelling from Lærdal, the view that opens up on the descent towards the dramatic fjord landscape in & around Aurland is astounding, with the award-winning Stegastein viewpoint as the pièce de résistance. made from laminated timber & steel, this platform sticking 30 metres out into thin air, 650 metres above the fjord gives the landscape a whole new dimension. The old buildings at Lærdalsøyri, the Flåm Railway, the Aurlandsdalen Valley & the Nærøyfjord, which like Geirangerfjord is on UNESCO`s World Heritage List, are all attractions in the area that are well worth a visit. So is the Norwegian Wild Salmon Centre in Lærdal. The set
Features: One map: scale 1:50, 000 Text in three languages (Norwegian, English & German)5 Postcards (13.5x 25cm) To see the list of other titles in this series, please click on the series link.


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The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, & their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts & imagination of people across the globe. Aurora is a narrative of discovery exploring the visual beauty, legends & science of the northern lights
- including the developing threat of space weather
- & challenging the popular paradigm of how the lights are formed. Well-known plasma physicist Dr Melanie Windridge offers new insights into this extraordinary & evocative phenomenon, a scientific marvel unlike any other in which the powers of astronomy, geology, magnetism & atomic physics combine to create one of the wonders of the natural world. As products of solar `events` with the power to disrupt & even knock out power & communications, the aurorae represent plasmic phenomena full of latent power & danger, & as we rely increasingly on technology the prospect of a huge solar storm becomes more & more threatening. This book grapples with both the beauty & the danger of the aurora, & it explores the essential questions of its origins. Do we really even know what causes this sublime phenomenon? The author suggests that we don`t, & in this illuminating book she uncovers the scientific realities which have thus far remained so elusive. She takes us on an Arctic journey to discover the northern lights, in which complex science is delicately interwoven with a background of their history, folklore & changing landscape. From the legends of indigenous peoples in the Arctic to the science of the aurora & the implications this has for the vital relationship between the Earth & the Sun, Windridge combines a lucid & fascinating exposition of the science (s) behind the lights with an elegant travelogue following her as she pursues the aurorae in their different forms across the globe, observing them in their own natural landscapes.

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In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin... Imprisoned at Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp, Daniel feels his humanity slipping away. Treasured memories of the young woman he loved & the prayers that once lingered on his lips become hazier with each passing day. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger changes everything, as Daniel`s former identity as a crafter of fine violins is revealed to all. The camp`s two most dangerous men use this information to make a cruel wager: If Daniel can build a successful violin within a certain number of days, the Kommandant wins a case of the finest burgundy. If not, the camp doctor, a torturer, gets hold of Daniel. & so, battling exhaustion, Daniel tries to recapture his lost art, knowing all too well the likely cost of failure. Written with lyrical simplicity & haunting beauty-and interspersed with chilling, actual Nazi documentation
- ” The Auschwitz Violin” is more than just a novel: it is a testament to the strength of the human spirit & the power of beauty, art, & hope to triumph over the darkest adversity.
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At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science & technology to improve, extend & protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher`s terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew & mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it & those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, & how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to underst&. ...

Map No. 68, Ausseerland
- Ennstal, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany
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For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices
- vivid, unselfconscious, & unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone`s troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their `betters`. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) & Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic & social landscape for the next three decades. Deeply researched, often amusing & always intensely entertaining & readable, the first volume of David Kynaston`s ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.
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David Kynaston`s ” Austerity Britain 1945-51”, the first book in his series ” Tales of a New Jerusalem”, was a major ” Sunday Times” bestseller in 2007. Here is the first volume from this landmark book covering 1945-48. Beginning his groundbreaking series about post-war Britain, Kynaston presents our nation through the eyes of those who lived there. Meet Judy Haines, a Chingford housewife, struggling daily with food rationing; Henry St. John, a self-serving civil servant in Bristol; &, the young Glenda Jackson, taking her 11-plus. Using mass observation, diaries, letters, newspapers & magazines from the time, ”A World to Build” is an unsurpassed social history: intensely evocative to those who were there & eye-opening for their children & grandchildren. ...