Geocaching is high-tech treasure hunting using a GPS, & this is the first UK-oriented guide to this most addictive of outdoor pursuits. For first-timers & for experienced geocachers, this step-by-step guide tells you everything you need to know to enjoy this accessible, family-friendly activity to the full. Everyone dreams of finding treasure, a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow. For those bitten by the geocaching bug, a different kind of treasure is all around, just waiting to be found. & there are accurate & detailed clues out there to help you find it. The fun lies in the challenge: deciphering clues, downloading co-ordinates, mastering your GPS device, & then setting off into the countryside in search of artfully-concealed caches. Since it began in the year 2000, geocaching has become an international craze, adding a whole new dimension to exploring the outdoors, on your own, with friends & family or at the big events. This guide tells you all you need to know to get started
- from understanding GPS devices, to finding caches, recording your discoveries & setting up your own caches. Every walk in the park & every day in the countryside leads past a geocache.
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Geocaching is high-tech treasure hunting activity using a GPS, & this is the first UK-oriented guide to this most addictive of outdoor pursuits. For first-timers & for experienced geocachers, this step-by-step guide tells you everything you need to know to enjoy this accessible, family-friendly activity to the full. Everyone dreams of finding treasure, a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow. For those bitten by the geocaching bug, a different kind of treasure is all around, just waiting to be found. & there are accurate & detailed clues out there to help you find it. The fun lies in the challenge: deciphering clues, downloading co-ordinates, mastering your GPS device, & then setting off into the countryside in search of artfully-concealed caches. Since it began in the year 2000, geocaching has become an international craze, adding a whole new dimension to exploring the outdoors, on your own, with friends & family or at the big events. This guide tells you all you need to know to get started
- from understanding GPS devices, to finding caches, recording your discoveries & setting up your own caches. Every walk in the park & every day in the countryside leads past a geocache.
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Perfect follow-ups to the universally acclaimed I Used to Know That, these five titles go that little bit further by filling in the gaps with some more in-depth knowledge on each individual subject. Written in a highly accessible & lighthearted way you can brush up on your maths, science, history, geography & English language while enjoying a walk down memory lane
- & remembering the stuff you really shouldn't have forgotten...
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Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining & representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images
- including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, & photographs
- to explore & elaborate upon the many & varied ways in which the vast & varied earth, & at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined & represented as a place of human habitation. The essays include reflections upon geographical discovery; urban cartography & utopian visions; ideas of landscape & the shaping of America; wilderness & masculinity; conceptions of the Pacific; & the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries.

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Why do volcanoes erupt? What makes lightning? Who lives in rainforest? Where is the world's longest bridge? The Usborne geography encyclopedia provides information about the world we live in, explaining how the earth develops & why it looks as it does today. With simple explanations it explores all the major topics of geography such as rocks & minerals, weather & climate, industry & the environment. There is advice on reading maps & using a compass, & a detailed map & reference section. ...

Travel the world with Eric Weiner, the New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss, as he journeys from Athens to Silicon Valley-and throughout history, too-to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In The Geography of Genius, acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings & our most innovative ideas. He explores the history of places, like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, & Silicon Valley, to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. &, with his trademark insightful humour, he walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these settings to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, & Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, ” What was in the air, & can we bottle it?” This link can be traced back through history: Darwin`s theory of evolution gelled while he was riding in a carriage. Freud did his best thinking at this favourite coffee house. Beethoven, like many geniuses, preferred long walks in the woods. Sharp & provocative, The Geography of Genius redefines the argument about how genius came to be. His evaluation of the importance of culture in nurturing creativity is an informed romp through history. ...

Are you ready for an amazing adventure that will test your brain power to the limit, full of mind-bending puzzles, twists & turns? You have been summoned to Professor Fustigate`s dusty study at the Ocean Explorers Museum. 300 years ago the pirate ship Shiver Me Timbers sank & the captain`s logbook was found ashore. Ever since, explorers have tried to find the wreck. Just yesterday, Professor Fustigate discovered that if you can follow the coded clues found in the logbook, you will be lead to the wreck & its treasure. Only with your help can the wreck be found, you`re being depended on to locate the treasure! Geography Quest follows the popular Maths Quest, Rubik Quest, Science Quest & History Quest series. Questions are carefully chosen to address important geographical subjects for the age group. Finding the answers enables readers to advance through the story, learning more about geography with every step taken. A glossary explains geographical words & provides added reference material. The four titles in the Geography Quest series are: Journey into the Earth
- 978-1-78493-009-7 Rapid River Rescue
- 978-1-78493-010-3 Mountain Peak Peril
- 978-1-78493-029-5 Deep Sea Danger
- 978-1-78493-030-1



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Are you ready for an amazing adventure that will test your brain power to the limit, full of mind-bending puzzles, twists & turns? You`ve been called urgently to the Television Wildlife Centre where Lucinda Lavender, the TV Director General, is waiting for you. Reports of a terrifying yeti in the Towering Mountains have been made. Sir Digby Tweedhop, the top wildlife presenter, was sent up the mountain to capture the yeti on film
- but he has disappeared without a trace! Only you, with your fantastic geography skills, will be able to find him. This is a life or death mission, create your own adventure & rescue Sir Digby Tweedhop from the mountain! Geography Quest follows the popular Maths Quest, Rubik Quest, Science Quest & History Quest series. Questions are carefully chosen to address important geographical subjects for the age group. Finding the answers enables readers to advance through the story, learning more about geography with every step taken. A glossary explains geographical words & provides added reference material. The four titles in the Geography Quest series are: Journey into the Earth
- 978-1-78493-009-7 Rapid River Rescue
- 978-1-78493-010-3 Mountain Peak Peril
- 978-1-78493-029-5 Deep Sea Danger
- 978-1-78493-030-1




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Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Geography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore & underst&, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities to the decision-makers who fly overhead in executive jets, from natural disasters to over-use of fossil fuels. In this incisive introduction to the subject, Danny Dorling & Carl Lee reveal geography as a science which tackles all of the biggest issues that face us today, from globalisation to equality, from sustainability to population growth, from climate change to changing technology
- & the complex interactions between them all. Illustrated by a series of award-winning maps created by Benjamin D. Hennig, this is a book for anyone who wants to know more about why our world is the way it is today, & where it might be heading next.
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! Now at Stanfords’ special discounted price of £19.99
- £20.01 off the RRPMillennium House’s “ Geologica” is an encyclopedic look
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