Hanoi is a picturesque mix of the old & the new, with the fading grandeur of its French colonial history juxtaposed against modern architecture. It’s a city where the peaceful music of early-morning tai chi is quickly drowned out by the rush of noisy mopeds; where old-style food vendors sit alongside high-end boutiques & shopping malls; & where a growing restaurant & bar scene mixes traditional Vietnamese cooking with influences from around the world. Hanoi Pocket Precincts is your curated guide to the city’s best cultural, shopping, eating & drinking experiences. As well as detailed reviews & maps for major attractions through to hidden gems, this guide

Includes:: a selection of ‘field trips’ encouraging you to venture outside the city to Halong Bay, Sapa & Bat Trang. Slip this guide into your pocket & head off on an adventure, experiencing the coolest places in Hanoi & surrounds like a local.

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Hanoi in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Map No. 848, Hannover & Environs 2-Map Set, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website. * Cartography:* all the maps are contoured with additional shading & graphic relief to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10 metres in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous parts of the two countries. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. New editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.* Geographical coordinates:* unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. * Map legend:* most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.* Other
Features:* some titles now include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have booklets with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names.*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!* * Booklets:* many titles come with booklets describing the area and/or various hiking routes. These booklets are in * German only*, apart from a handful of titles where an English language booklet is specifically indicated in the individual description. So, unless English language booklet is actually mentioned, the map can only be supplied with a German booklet. These booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, most titles now include * full English language map legend.*
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Hanover
- Steinhuder Meer
- Deister area in Germany at 1:50, 000 from Kümmerly+ Frey in a series GPS compatible, double-sided

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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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Unusual, very attractive street plan of Hannover from Bollmann, offering a bird’s-eye view of the city with every building drawn to scale with full architectural detail, from street arcades to rooftops & inner courtyards. The plan, drawn in 2010, covers central Hannover from the AWD Arena & Waterlooplatz in the west to the Stadthalle in the east & is annotated with small icons of various businesses which sponsored its production. On the reverse is a conventional street plan of the city with its outer suburbs. Street index, in a separate booklet, covers both plans &

Includes:: brief descriptions of the main monuments & places of interest, plus lists of local facilities & various shops & other businesses. All the text is in German only.

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Hanover region on a road map based on the country’s topographic survey at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. On the reverse is a road map of northern Germany at 1:1, 000, 000. Maps in this series cover selected regions of Germany
- the environs on main cities & parts of the Rhine Valley. Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie is 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 25m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, vineyards & hop plantations. 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.IMPORTANT
- 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.

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Matilda is a very good girl. She likes to sit quietly & read. Hans is very naughty
- he makes too much noise & squirts people
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Hansel & Gretel is a timeless tale that has been told to children the world over for two hundred years, & yet Louise Rowe has managed to breathe even more wonder into this fantastic tale. Illustrated in shades of green with touches of other colours, & with stunning pop-ups, it ...

Topographic survey of Denmark at 1:100, 000 from Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, the country’s national survey organization. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, with colouring and/or graphics showing various types of terrain & land use: woodlands, orchards, heath, sand & dunes, tidal flats, meadows & marshl&, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of the road & rail networks & other information expected of topographic mapping at this scale. No specifically tourist information such as waymarked cycling or hiking routes is shown. Standard size sheets cover an area of 56 x 45km / 35x 28 miles approx. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING:AVAILABILITY: all the maps are now printed on dem&. Delivery from Denmark can take over 4 weeks. Once an order has been placed we cannot accept any returns for credit.COORDINATES: although the maps are meant to have UTM coordinates for EUREF 89 (WGS 84) datum, sheets are sometimes delivered printed without any grid or margin ticks for UTM or latitude & longitude.

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