Walking is one of Britain`s favourite leisure activities, & this fantastic walking guide to Cornwall features a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities. The book features all the practical detail you need, accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history & wildlife of the area, as well as other local points of interest. All walks are annotated with local points of interest & places to stop for refreshments & every walk is given a summary of distance, time, gradient, level of difficulty, type of surface & access, landscape, dog friendliness, parking & public toilets. ...

Double-sided, waterproof, leisure & cycle map of Cornwall at 1:100, 000 from Croyde Cycle, with enlargements of town & city centres at 1:7, 500. Regional & national cycle paths, bridleways, footpaths, & permissive paths are prominently indicated. Road networks are shown, with busy, main, & minor roads differentiated, as well as private roads allowing access on foot/bike. Topography is indicated through spot heights, contour lines (at 30m intervals), & steep hill symbols, with colour used for different terrain types. Points of interest & local facilities such as information points, pubs, camp sites, accommodation & toilets are highlighted. Limited access, geological, & historical information is marked on some parts of the map. Enlargements at 1:7, 500 are included of: Plymouth city centre; Newquay; Truro; St Austell; Falmouth; Penzance; St Ives; Falmouth; Helston; Bude; Bodmin; Tavistock; Lostwithiel; Fowey; Liskeard; & Looe. These show one-way streets & local facilities, including parking & cycle hire. The National Grid is indicated by margin ticks, making the map GPS compatible. ...

A new, inspirational, travel book for design-conscious travellers, featuring a curated selection of places across the county. Cornwall by Weekend Journals is the definitive new guide to exploring the fairest English county. Following extensive research & time spent travelling round Cornwall, the Weekend Journals team have uncovered unique & special venues, from verdant gardens to visionary galleries, independent shops & exceptional restaurants. The book is written by Milly Kenny-Ryder & produced by Simon Lovell. They both have strong family links to Cornwall & have been visiting with their families since they were young. Using these connections they have gone off the beaten track to discover the venues that the locals love, while also showcasing some of Cornwall`s most iconic sites & stories. The book features over 35 venues including: Barbara Hepworth Museum & Sculpture Gardens, Chapel House, Leach Pottery, Coombeshead Farm, Plumbline, Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, Hotel Tresanton & Jubilee Pool, as well as many other hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, galleries & places to visit all over Cornwall. It also

Includes:: interviews with 2-michelin starred chef, Nathan Outlaw, prestigious hotelier, Olga Polizzi, up-&-coming designer, Tom Raffield, & Cornwall`s only hotel concierge, Sid Williams of The Idle Rocks. Photography by Gabriel Kenny-Ryder, exclusive to Weekend Journals. All venues have been visited personally.

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Welcome to the weird & wonderful world of Cornwall, or as it is sometimes obscurely referred to, Merry Jack. Though this isn`t the usual side of the county the tourists, travellers & residents see. This is the real Cornwall, the strange & twisted nooks & crannies of the county`s bizarre history
- past, present & future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to England`s gloriously coastal, yet most haunted, region. Located in the toes of the outstretched legs of Britain`s old man, Cornwall is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a Cornish pasty at. Cornwall is an area of outstanding natural beauty, as well as outstanding strangness
- from ye olde tales of plundering pirates to foulish ghosts drinking in local pubs right through to the most famous of all myths
- the bizarre beast that forever stalks Bodmin Moor. Spooky. Cornwall`s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd & the baffling
- an alternative travel guide to some of the county`s best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned. Word count: 35, 000



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Coromandel Peninsula at 1:75, 000 in a series of contoured & GPS compatible maps from New Topo NZ Ltd, with exceptionally vivid presentation of the terrain, routes clearly highlighted, & symbols to show locations of various facilities. The map is double-sided & highlights the area’s walking & tramping tracks, tramping routes, as well as cycle or mountain bike & horse riding routes. Symbols show locations of huts, campsites, toilets, viewpoints, & points of interest. Contours are at 20m intervals. Maps in the series from New Topo NZ Ltd cover the country’s popular hiking & tramping areas. The maps have contours (20m in most titles
- please confirm in the individual description) enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to indicate various types of the terrain & vegetation: glaciers, scree, lava flows, shingle, s&, swamps, exotic forest, scrub, native bush, etc. The overprint for the routes distinguishes, as appropriate, between tramping tracks & routes, walking tracks, & waymarked or unmarked trails. Symbols show facilities such huts, campsites, public toilets, viewpoints, car parks, etc. Where useful, the maps also have brief notes about hut reservations. All the titles are GPS compatible, most with a 1-km NZ national grid (GPS users can uses WGS84). To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Coromandel & Auckland region in a series of maps covering various districts of New Zeal&, with each title combining a detailed road map with street plans of local towns, all with road & street indexes. The maps are published in two formats: handy Pocket Maps or Pathfinders with, as the publishers put it “ Larger print so you don’t squint”. The road maps, typically around 1:175, 000
- 1:275, 000, show local roads & 4WD tracks. Main sightseeing routes across the country, such as the Pacific Road Highway or Thermal Explorer Highway, are identified by small icons. Railways, local airports & where appropriate, ferry routes are shown. The maps also include selected local hiking tracks. A range of symbols highlight various places of interest & sport or recreational facilities. Topography is indicated by names of mountain ranges & selected peaks. Colouring shows forested areas, with national parks & reserves highlighted. The maps have no geographical coordinates but each one has an index listing names of local roads. Each title also

Includes:: numerous street plans of the main centres of population in the area covered by the road map. The plans are usually at 1:25, 000 to 1:35, 000, & for larger towns an enlargement of the town centre is also provided. The plans shows one way streets, public buildings & various facilities, including sport & recreational centres &, almost invariably, public toilets. Each plan has a separate street index.* In this title:* road map at 1:250, 000 of the Coromandel Peninsula & the coast of the Bay of Plenty to Tauranga, extending to the east & the north to include the area from Hamilton to the beyond Auckland as far as Kawau Isl&. On the reverse are 51 street plans of local towns. Both the map & the plans are indexed.


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Coromandel was the name given by European traders to India`s south-eastern seaboard, a corruption of the Tamil Cholamandalam, after the temple-building Chola kings who ruled the southern peninsula for centuries prior to the Islamic invasions. Indian history tends to focus on Northern India, but Coromandel will journey south, exploring the less well-known, often neglected & very different history & identity of the oldest India in the pre-Aryan Dravidian south. Highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen explores the astonishing Buddhist & Jain civilisations that flourished all along India`s eastern seaboard before Hinduism became the established religion. In Coromandel, Allen continues his investigation into early Indian history, begun in Ashoka. At each point in his journey through the Indian south he meets local historians, gurus, politicians & other colourful personalities, & with their help uncovers some extraordinary stories about the past. This is a traveller`s tale, & as Allen moves through contemporary India, he discovers as much about the present as he does about the past. ...

Coronation Everest by Jan Morris is the passionate account of The Times’ young reporter attached to the successful 1953 expedition to Mount Everest, & her efforts to deliver the news to England the day before the Coronation of Queen Elisabeth II. Having gained the exclusive rights to the cover story, Morris writes of the challenges & concerns about keeping the scoop from rival newspapers & how, with the help from a crew of Sherpas delivered the news home. The achievements of the ascent become an exciting backdrop for her personal observations about details & people behind the celebrated heroes, & the world of journalism of a time when Fleet Street was the newspapers district. The book was originally written in 1958, & the style might be outdated in places, however, this edition benefits from a preface by the writer reflecting on her own writing & young self. Coronation Everest is an intriguing insight into the expedition but also into the historical climate & the world of journalism of the time. ...

It is early summer in 1953, & the friends & neighbours of Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has become a memory; the future seems rosy. Kate Emmerson looks on with pride at her growing family, including Matthew, whose father was killed during the war. But Matthew`s wealthy relations have never really forgiven Kate for marrying Leon, a West Indian who works as a Thames lighterman, & when Matthew runs away from his smart boarding school in Somerset the tensions which exist between the two families come to a head. Meanwhile Zac, the wonderfully talented & handsome new signing at the local boxing club, is being eyed hopefully by all the young women of Magnolia Square. But he has eyes for only one woman
- Carrie Collins, who has teenage children of her own & whose husb&, Danny, seems more interested in the boxing club & his market stall than in her. In the weeks leading up to the Coronation festivities, drama & tragedy threaten to haunt Magnolia Square, but by the time the great day dawns, the bells ring out in celebration as the Londoners enjoy themselves as only they know how.
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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...