Fulda on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only. PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Map No. 461, Fulda
- Hessiches Kegelspiel
- Milseburg, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage

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Falk, one of Germany's leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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Topographic survey of Faroe Islands at 1:20, 000 prepared by the Danish national mapping agency Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen. The islands’ topography is vividly presented by contours at 5 metre intervals, enhanced by relief shading plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of terrain or vegetation (scree, boulders, etc). The maps show all the detail expected of the topographic mapping at this scale & have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1’ & 2` respectively. Map legend is in Danish only. The maps are available either separately or as sets of five of more sheets, each covering the main island group: Vagar, Sandoy, Suduroy, Nordoyar, Streymoy & Eysturoy. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Fulham has changed enormously in the last twenty-five years; smart shops & restaurants have moved inexorably west along the Fulham Road, terraces of pleasant houses were spruced up & the former industrial areas, having lain derelict for years, have been redeveloped. The author begins with Fulham`s rural past, the nursery gardens & mansions, when the area was closely associated with the Thames & dominated by the Bishop of London`s palace. ...

Dame Ellen Mac Arthur’s latest book is not just about sailing, nor is it even predominantly about her well known & admired solo exploits at sea. Full Circle looks at Dame Ellen’s broader, more human life & story, particularly focussing on her reasons behind the decision to turn her back on competitive sailing & her subsequent actions & life choices. Now dedicating herself to the cause of sustainability, the book tackles the question of how & why one the world’s most lauded sportswomen turned her back on the world that adored her to focus her drive & ambition towards a seemingly impossible to solve global issue. Full Circle is about hope & determination, about family & the ties that bond & drive us, & about how one person can make a difference, no matter how small. ...

Michael Palin travels Full Circle through 18 countries encircling the Pacific
- the world’s largest ocean
- in a journey he

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The third of Michael Palin's travel adventures for BBC Television covered 50, 000 miles & all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean. Basil Rao's photographs bear witness to the wide diversity of landscape, culture & people encountered on the journey. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anywhere else on earth
- & here the earth itself is in a constant state of flux. Not for nothing is the Pacific coastline known as the Ring of Fire
- volcanoes mark Palin's journey like stepping stones, & he climbs one which has recently erupted & is still smoking. He negotiates mountains & plunging gorges, crosses glaciers, dodges icebergs, follows great rivers such as the Yangtse & the Amazon, & confronts the notorious Cape Horn & the wild & windswept beaches of western Alaska. The people Palin meets include one of the few remaining survivors of a Siberian Gulag camp, head-hunters in Borneo, & Japanese monks. He eats maggots in Mexico, rustles camels in the Australian desert, lands a plane in Seattle, & sings with the Pacific Fleet choir in Vladivostock.

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So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world
- its institutions, its priorities, its entertainment, its physics, its sexual morality, its food, its politics, even its religion. The ways in which we live our rich & varied lives correspond
- almost eerily so
- to the ways in which the Greeks & Romans lived theirs. Whether we are eating & drinking, bathing or exercising or making love, pondering, admiring or enquiring, our habits of thought & action, our diversions & concentrations recreate theirs. It is as though the 1500 years after the fall of Rome had been time out from traditional ways of being human. This eye-opening book makes us look afresh at who we are & how we got here. Full Circle is not only wonderfully witty & brilliantly astute, but also profound & often disquieting. Ferdinand Mount effortlessly peels back 2000 years of history to show how much we are like the ancients, how in ways both trivial & crucial we are them & they are us.


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The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander Mc Call Smith follows Precious Ramotswe, whose engagement to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni is of some long standing, but still remains open ended. However her fiancé has things on his mind other than setting a wedding date, notably a frightening demand from Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has serious issues to consider
- a wealthy lady has asked her to check up on several suitors. Are these men interested only in her money? This may be difficult to ascertain, but Mma Ramotswe is, of course, an exceptionally intuitive lady.
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