Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

` Without quite realising that I would do it until it happened, I raised myself on my toes & kissed his frozen cheek. In Paris, it would have been an unremarkable gesture. In Alexandria, an invitation. I still had no idea about London.` The London winter of 1947. As cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. The Karenins keep their vodka under the layers of snow in their suburban garden, in bottles entombed like their Russian past. But when a young Frenchwoman arrives to work as a companion to the aged ` Monsieur Ka` he begins to tell his story... Albertine is the wife of a British army officer who is often abroad on covert government business. Lonely, yet eager to work, she begins to write Monsieur Ka`s life story a as a secret gift to him, & even learns his mother tongue. To her ear it is like `the sound of falling snow`. As she is drawn into Ka`s dramatic past, her own life is shaken to its foundations. For in this family of former princes, there are present temptations which could profoundly affect her future. ...

French Academician & Nazi sympathiser, Paul-Jean Husson, writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has taken a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own. The letter is intended to explain his actions. It is a dramatic, sometimes harrowing, story that begins in the years leading up to the war, when following the accidental drowning of his daughter, Husson`s previously gilded life begins to unravel. & through Husson`s confession, Romain Slocombe gives the reader a startling picture of a man`s journey: from pillar of the French Establishment & World War One hero, to outspoken supporter of Nazi ideology & the Vichy government. ...

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, & with his son & daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention centre are unsure how to help the old man; his caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, & becomes increasingly bewildered & isolated in this strange, fast-moving town. & then he encounters Monsieur Bark. Neither speaks the other`s language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the foreigner`s need to care for the child. Recently widowed & equally alone, he is eager to talk, & Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. The two men share their solitude, & find friendship in an unlikely dialogue between two very different cultures. Delicate & restrained, but with an extraordinary twist, Monsieur Linh & His Child is another limpid, immensely moving novel of perfect simplicity, by the author of Brodeck`s Report. ...

The Marquis de Montespan & his new wife, Athenais, are a true love-match
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' Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital -- he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist & reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. But after the appearance of two mysterious Spaniards, Monsieur Pain finds his access to the hospital barred & things soon go awry.. . Set in the rainy, crepuscular streets of an unsettled 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pain merges the best of Borges with Edgar Allan Poe, & its dark blend of unrequited desire, guilt, grief & betrayal makes this a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange. ' Bolano writes with such elegance, verve & style & is immensely readable' Guardian ' His fiction was hallucinatory, haunting & experimental' Times Literary Supplement ...

With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes` classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life & times. ...

For more than half the world`s people, the weather can be a matter of survival. Good monsoons mean prosperity & life, & poor ones are attended by famine & death. The monsoon is immune to control by government & technology alike. Photojournalist Steve Mc Curry had just completed a working tour of India when he was commissioned by the ” National Geographic” to cover the monsoon season. For a further six months he followed the path of the monsoon from the tropics to the eastern hemisphere, through Southeast Asia to Northern Australia. The resulting photographs are presented in this volume, with Mc Curry`s personal account of the assignment. ...

A compelling story of love, adventure, & the secrets that follow us, wherever we go...I adored this wonderful story... Astonishingly good` Dinah Jefferies, bestselling author of The Tea Planter`s Wife & Before the Rains Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war & nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood throws herself into helping her godmother Daisy set up a charity sending midwives to India, a plan fraught with danger. Then Kit meets Anto, a trainee doctor from India nearing the end of his English education, & falls utterly in love. Marriage should be the easiest thing in the world, but when Anto informs his family that he is shortly to return home with an English bride, his parents are appalled. Despite being Anglo-Indian herself, Kit`s own mother is equally horrified. She has spent most of her life trying to erase a painful past & losing her daughter to an Indian man is her worst fear realized. As they journey to a new life in India, Kit begins to understand the seriousness of what she has undertaken & just how much she has to learn about the nature of home & the depth of her love. ...