For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face & gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for six-figure sums & hangs on celebrities` walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated & people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy & how did he become what he is today? In the first attempt to tell the full story of Banksy`s life & career, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a picture of his world & unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy & his work have become a cultural phenomenon & the question ` Who is Banksy?` is as much about his career as it is `the man behind the wall`. ` Britain`s unlikeliest national treasure` Independent `A fascinating portrait that elicits admiration for a man who, despite his increasingly unconvincing efforts to retain some shred of his vandal status, has had an undeniable impact on art` The Times ...

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face & gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for six-figure sums & hangs on celebrities' walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated & people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy & how did he become what he is today? In the first attempt to tell the full story of Banksy's life & career, Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a picture of his world & unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy & his work have become a cultural phenomenon & the question ' Who is Banksy?' is as much about his career as it is 'the man behind the wall'. ' Britain's unlikeliest national treasure' Independent 'A fascinating portrait that elicits admiration for a man who, despite his increasingly unconvincing efforts to retain some shred of his vandal status, has had an undeniable impact on art' The Times ...

Bannockburn in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Bannockburn, south-east of Stirling, extending westward to Milton & southward to Muir of Bannockburn. Features include Muiralehouse, Cat Craig, Newmarket, Stein's Square, Caledonian Railway with Bannockburn station, Lower Greenyards, infectious diseases hospital, Town Hall, Greenyards Colliery, Skeochmill, Woollen Factory, Royal George Carpet Factory, Balquhidderock, etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Street Plan of Bansko at 1:5, 000 with on the reverse a panorama map of the local mountains showing ski runs & related facilities. The plan is annotated with symbols highlighting locations of numerous hotels & various facilities including information centre, cash dispensers, petrol stations & car repairs, etc. Streets show selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Names of larger streets & most hotels are given in both Cyrillic & Latin alphabet. Map legend

Includes:: English. Street index is in Cyrillic only. The map is accompanied by a very extensive bilingual list of hotels & other accommodation with phone numbers & web addresses, plus numerous advertisements illustrating many entries. Approximately a third of the reverse side is taken by a contoured hiking map of the Pirin National Park at 1:60, 000, overprinted with 13 waymarked hiking routes, each accompanied by brief notes. Also shown are cable car lines & lifts, huts & shelters, interesting trees or rock formations, caves & other places of interest. The map has no geographical coordinates. All place names are given in both Cyrillic & Latin alphabet. Also provided is an extensive gazetteer of various facilities & services within Bansko & notes about the city & its region. All the information is tri-lingual: Bulgarian, English & German.

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Street Plan of Bansko at 1:5, 000 with on the reverse a panorama map of the local mountains showing ski runs & related facilities. The plan is annotated with symbols highlighting locations of numerous hotels & various facilities including information centre, cash dispensers, petrol stations & car repairs, etc. Streets show selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Names of larger streets & most hotels are given in both Cyrillic & Latin alphabet. Map legend

Includes:: English. Street index is in Cyrillic only. The map is accompanied by a very extensive bilingual list of hotels & other accommodation with phone numbers & web addresses, plus numerous advertisements illustrating many entries. On the reverse is a panorama map showing ski runs on the Pirin Mountains, graded according to the degree of difficulty, plus cable car lines, ski & chair lifts, equipment hire points, restaurants, etc. Also provided is an extensive gazetteer of various facilities & services within Bansko & notes about the city & its region. All the information is tri-lingual: Bulgarian, English & German.

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Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:25, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, an attractive alternative to Spain’s national topographic survey at this scale, offering a much larger area per sheet with extensive tourist information & vivid presentation of vegetation & land use. These large, detailed maps have contours at 10m intervals enhanced by hill shading & fine colouring and/or graphics to portray of vegetation or land use (different types of woodlands, marshl&, vineyards, crops, etc). An overprint highlights waymarked local & long-distance GR footpaths plus CT cycling routes. Also highlighted are picturesque locations such as villages, isolated buildings or natural features. A very wide range of symbols indicate various facilities, places of interest & recreational sites: tourist information centres, campsites & other rural accommodation, cultural heritage, vineries, wildlife observation areas, viewpoints & beauty spots, sites for recreational pursuits including horse riding, water sports, paragliding, etc The maps are divided by the publishers into three types: Administrative Units, Natural Protected Areas, & Geographical Areas, as shown on our grid for this series. Coverage by each sheet varies; most maps present an area of 30 x 23km (19 x 14km approx). The maps have a 1km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Excellently presented topographic map legend is in Catalan only but the legend for the tourist information & the road network

Includes:: English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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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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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. ...

Map No. 2407E, Bapaume, in IGN’s excellent, detailed topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000. With the town of Bapaume towards its eastern edge, the map covers the area to the east & north of the main front lines of July 1916. The central part of front line itself, with Thiepval, Beaumont-Hamel, Hébuterne, etc, is on the adjoining map No. 2407O; the southern part of front line & the ground taken on 1st July 1916 is on map No. 2408E. Although not specifically designed to show WWI memorial sites & best used in conjunctions with one of the specialist maps of the Western Front or the Battle of the Somme, maps in the IGN 1:25, 000 series are ideal for locating access to the numerous small British war cemeteries & memorials scattered across this area. The map is contoured, GPS compatible & shows all the features expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Map legend is in French only. To see the full description of IGN’s 1:25, 000 topographic survey of France & the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Joel, aka ` The Rink` (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. There are so many suspects, it`s not so much a question of who did kill him as who didn`t. There`s Magalie, the temperamental teenager obsessed with Paris Hilton; her troublemaker boyfriend, Tani; Tani`s mother, Madame Levi; her unemployed, daytime-TV addicted husband; Yeznig, their younger son, who has learning difficulties but perfect memory recall; & newcomers Ali & Nadia, the Muslim twins struggling to fit in. As the tension mounts & we`re still none the wiser, the ending is as tragic as it is unexpected. ...