Southern Ladakh & Zanskar: Upper Zanskar
- Rupshu area in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from the Geneva based
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Southern Ladakh & Zanskar: Upper Zanskar
- Rupshu area at 1:150, 000 in a series of excellent topographic trekking maps from the
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Ladakh & Zanskar on a double-sided map at 1:175, 000 from the Kolkata/ Calcutta based Milestone Books, highlighting 20 trekking routes & showing the region’s road network. Coverage

Includes:: Nubra, the Indus valley, the Zanskar mountains, Tsomoriri Lake & Rupshu. Satellite-derived base provides a clear picture of the valleys & ridges of this mountainous region & gives spot-heights for peaks & passes in both metres & feet, but has no contour lines. Treks are graded into “popular” or “other”, indicating routes along roads; roads are classified as highways or secondary/jeep tracks. The map shows towns & villages, as well as campsites/herdsmen’s huts/seasonal settlements. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals.

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Ladakh & Zanskar region on a double-sided map at 1:300, 000 from Editions Olizane, printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper & illustrated with drawings of local landscape & cultural heritage. The map covers roughly the same area as the publishers’ highly acclaimed series of three maps covering the region at 1:150, 000. The base map, derived from satellite imagery, presents a vivid picture of the terrain, with numerous peaks named on it. The map shows local roads & mountain trails, & highlights 68 various places of interest, cross-referenced to a list which conveniently groups them into villages, palaces & forts, monasteries, sacred sites, low relief & steles, rock art sites, etc. The map has latitude & longitude cross-hairs at 12’. Fine drawings provide illustrations of local Buddhist structures & figures, steles, rock art & artefacts. Map legend & all the text are in English & French. ...

* From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins` most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty & illegitimacy, & there are the hazards of sectarianism in an island divided between Catholic & Protestant, the rigidity of a class & racial system where, if you are black, your white employer is always right-and only the ladies live upstairs. Doux confronts all such challenges with style & hidden steel. We leave Doux as an old lady moving between the homes of her children in Boston & New York, wondering whether they & her grandchildren really appreciate what her engagement with life has taught her. In these tender & moving stories, Merle Collins demands that we do not forget such lives. If ghosts appear in several of the later stories, they are surely there to warn that amnesia about the past can leave disturbed & restless spirits behind. In addition to the Doux stories, this collection restores to print an earlier ` Paz` story, Rain Darling, & their juxtaposition contrasts two very different responses to the hazards of life. ...

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Map No. 3320, Ladismith, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Peter Popham`s major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony & fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery & determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world`s greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but, within six months, found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in the history of Burma. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma`s first free elections for thirty years, she was already under house arrest & barred from taking office by the military junta. Since then, ` The Lady` has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically, displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years, she has come close to being killed by her political enemies & her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost. In November 2010, after fraudulent elections in which she played no part, Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country. ...

Peter Popham`s major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony & fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery & determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the world`s greatest exponents of non-violent political defiance since Mahatma Gandhi, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only four years after her first experience of politics. In April 1988, Suu Kyi returned from Britain to Burma to nurse her sick mother but, within six months, found herself the unchallenged leader of the largest popular revolt in the history of Burma. When the party she co-founded won a landslide victory in Burma`s first free elections for thirty years, she was already under house arrest & barred from taking office by the military junta. Since then, ` The Lady` has set about transforming her country ethically as well as politically, displaying dazzling courage in the process. Under house arrest for 15 of the previous 20 years, she has come close to being killed by her political enemies & her commitment to peaceful revolution has come at extreme personal cost. In November 2010, after fraudulent elections in which she played no part, Suu Kyi was again freed. She was greeted by ecstatic crowds but only time will tell what role this remarkable woman will have in the future of her country. ...

This title features an introduction by Blake Motrrision. Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him & tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless & listless she feels oppressed by their marriage & their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Through their liaison Lawrence explores the complications of sex, love & class. Written in 1928 & subsequently banned, ” Lady Chatterley`s Lover” is one of the most subversive novels in English Literature. ...