Madhya Pradesh in a series of locally produced administrative maps of Indian states, each with a booklet providing a guide to the area. The maps show the division of each state into districts & have more small towns & villages than on more general maps of India available from other publishers. Presentation is now considerably enhanced with the districts shown in different colours. The maps indicate each district ...

Madhya Pradesh in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant maps from Bharat Graphics, showing local districts in different colours & indicating both administrative headquarters of each district & of its subdivisions, the tehsils (or tahsils, tahasils, talukas, taluks, taluqs). Roads are classified as national or state highways & other roads, some with driving distances. Railway lines are also marked & some titles have symbols indicating places of interest or rest houses. Maps of states in mountainous areas show names of main valleys, on other titles there is no topographic information. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Some titles include insets with enlargements of popular areas or street plans, & distance tables. All the maps are indexed & have a small booklet providing a basic guide to the state district by district. The maps are printed on a waterproof & tear-resistant paper. Please note: the various series of state maps of India often show different small villages, supplementing each other to provide a more detail picture of each state. ...

Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on road map from the Delhi-based International Publications, showing many small towns & villages, with a 40-page booklet describing the state & its sights. Additional features include an overview tourist map of the state highlighting numerous places of interest; street plans of Bhopal, Khajuraho, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Orchha, Pachmarhi, Ratlam & Ujjain, all annotated with facilities & sights; a distance chart; plus a facts & figures table. The booklet

Includes:: notes on arts & craft, fairs & festivals, etc. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, maps in this series present the state with its constituent districts in different colours & also show the division of districts into talukas. Town symbols indicate both district & taluka headquarters. Road network

Includes:: many local roads, some with driving distances, although sometimes locations are marked without road access to them shown on the map. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various locations of interest, including historical sites, wildlife sanctuaries, beaches, etc. In many titles additional panels around the main map and/or in the accompanying booklet provide more information: enlargements with more detailed presentation of the road network, street plans of main cities, etc. The booklets, which also include a general introduction to the state & district-by-district descriptions, are published on high quality paper & are illustrated with numerous colour photos. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.



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This is a well-presented 30cm (12) globe from the George F Cram company & comes with politcal cartography & striking colour throughout. Cram uses bright colours, clear type & internationally recognized symbols making their world globes easy to read & locate places. All map & globe mountings are made from steel & are powder coated to resist chipping & scratching. Here, the Madison is mounted on a champagne-tone base with matching semi-meridian. ...

This is a well-presented 30cm (12) globe from the George F Cram company & comes with physical mapping that features raised relief & striking colour throughout. Not only this, but the ocean cartography displays bathymetric information too. Cram uses bright colours, clear type & internationally recognized symbols making their world globes easy to read & locate places. All map & globe mountings are made from steel & are powder coated to resist chipping & scratching. Here, the Madison is mounted on a champagne-tone base with matching semi-meridian. ...

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it & ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, & twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed. ...

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it & ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, & twenty years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn. But the mission hurtles towards disaster when he discovers that the temple is the locus of grander conspiracies than anyone could have guessed. ...

Stanfords Bristol Book of the Month February 2017 The best-selling Turkish classic of love & longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. ` It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. & what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.`A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city`s crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics & seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric & touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings & the unfathomable nature of the human soul. ...

One of the titles in a series of maps of the administrative departments of Peru, with topography shown by altitude colouring & spot heights. Most maps also indicate cultivated areas. Scales vary considerably, given different sizes of the departments. Railways & four different types of roads & dirt tracks are shown, as well as local airports & aerodromes. The maps also show the subdivisions of the departments into provinces & districts, indicating administrative capital of each unit. Most sheets also include a panel with general information about the state (e.g. population distribution, climate, etc.). Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 1º intervals, making this series very useful for identifying the locations of small places on the 1:100, 000 topographic survey of the country. Map legend is in Spanish only. Publication dates vary from mid-1980s to mid-1990s, with a handful of titles revised later. Each map shows one department only & no detail of any kind is given for the adjacent departments, beyond their names. ...

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned & lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, &, unusually, remains in the family`s hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house & the family were the real inspiration for ” Brideshead Revisited”: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, & based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons. Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures & secrets. & so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens` ” Bleak House”; to the secret love behind Elgar`s ” Enigma Variations”; & the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl. ...