Bill Bryson`s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backback, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, & journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe & eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture & illuminates each place & person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein. ...

I`m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I`m going to start here, in this village, & radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don`t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn`t. I`m going to confirm or deny the cliches, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t` before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian Mc Millan would be it. He`s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, & southerners comment archly on his `fruity Yorkshire brogue`. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotl&, making him, as he puts it, only `half tyke`. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber & four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain`s most distinct county & its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire &, of course, who knocks up the knocker up? ...

I`m going to define the essence of this sprawling place as best I can. I`m going to start here, in this village, & radiate out like a ripple in a pond. I don`t want to go to the obvious places, either; I want to be like a bus driver on my first morning on the job, getting gloriously lost, turning up where I shouldn`t. I`m going to confirm or deny the cliches, holding them up to see where the light gets in. Yorkshire people are tight. Yorkshire people are arrogant. Yorkshire people eat a Yorkshire pudding before every meal. Yorkshire people solder a t` before every word they use... If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian Mc Millan would be it. He`s regularly consulted as a home-grown expert, & southerners comment archly on his `fruity Yorkshire brogue`. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotl&, making him, as he puts it, only `half tyke`. So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks on a journey around the county, starting in the village has lived in his entire life. With contributions from the Cudworth Probus Club, a kazoo playing train guard, Mad Geoff the barber & four Saddleworth council workers looking for a mattress, Ian tries to discover what lies at the heart of Britain`s most distinct county & its people, as well as finding out whether the Yorkshire Pudding is worthy of becoming a UNESCO Intangible Heritage Site, if Harrogate is really, really, in Yorkshire &, of course, who knocks up the knocker up? ...

With an introduction by Robert Plant Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white & one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns & down forgotten roads where the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices, these two men will travel beyond myth & stereotype, revealing an America few people ever get to see. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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A gripping & heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws` loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley`s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly must follow in her mother`s footsteps, be called servant & give herself to the family completely. But Nelly is not the only one who must serve. When a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test Nelly`s spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice. Nelly Dean is a wonderment of storytelling, a heartbreaking accompaniment to Emily Bronte`s adored work. It is the story of a woman who is fated to bear the pain of a family she is unable to leave, & unable to save. ...

Nelson – Marlborough region of New Zealand`s South Isl&, including Motueka, Picton & Blenheim, on a detailed, indexed road map at 1:250, 000 from Kiwimaps, with extensive tourist information including a table of facilities in local campsites, a comprehensive index, etc. Maps in a series indicate unsurfaced roads & 4WD tracks, & show names of both major highways (Pacific Coast, Highway, Great Alpine Highway, Southern Scenic Route, etc.) & of minor rural roads. Main hiking tracks, railways & ferry routes are also marked. National parks & nature reserves are highlighted, & an extensive range of symbols indicates places of interest, Lord of the Rings locations, numerous sport facilities, motor home/caravan parks & dump stations, interesting geographical features, etc. Topography is shown by subtle but effective relief shading. The maps have no geographical coordinates. On the reverse each title has an index of both localities & names of rural roads, & lists geographical features such as mountains & passes, motor home & caravan sites, parks & reserves, etc. Also provided is a table showing what facilities are available in the local Department of Conservation campsites. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

I will be a hero, & confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger! Nelson was 18 in 1776 when he made this declaration. By the time of his death in 1805 he had established himself as a brilliant fighting commander & naval tactician. His reputation as one of the greatest heroes of British history has lasted nearly two centuries. This book, illustrated with images from the vast photographic archive of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, describes Nelson's career, personality & relationships
- including his notorious affair with Lady Emma Hamilton
- & places his life in the social, political & naval context of the times. Artefacts from the museum's major new Nelson gallery bring history to life in this biography, from portraits & battle scenes to everyday items such as the combined knife & fork used by Nelson after the loss of his arm; & the uniform coat & pigtail taken to Emma Hamilton by Hardy after Nelson's death.

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Nelson in 1910 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the Lancashire weaving town of Nelson & stretches from Charles Street & Rook Street southward to Little Marsden, & from Lomeshaye Mills eastward to Glenfield Road. Features include the railway with station & goods station, skating rink, Lomeshaye, Bradley, Whitefield, Little Marsden, tramways, Walverden Park, Victoria Park, Carr Hall. The many mills include Lomeshaye, Spring Bank, Whitefield, Albert, Laurel Bank, Seedhill, Pendle Street, Parkfield, Vale Street Shed, Walverden Shed, Netherfield Shed, Victoria, Walverden, Bradley Shed, Throstle Nest, Bankfield, Bowling, Valley, Oak Bank, Hendon, Glenfield & Scholefield Mills. Extracts from an early directory are also provided. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Nelson in 1910 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the Lancashire weaving town of Nelson & stretches from Charles Street & Rook Street southward to Little Marsden, & from Lomeshaye Mills eastward to Glenfield Road. Features include the railway with station & goods station, skating rink, Lomeshaye, Bradley, Whitefield, Little Marsden, tramways, Walverden Park, Victoria Park, Carr Hall. The many mills include Lomeshaye, Spring Bank, Whitefield, Albert, Laurel Bank, Seedhill, Pendle Street, Parkfield, Vale Street Shed, Walverden Shed, Netherfield Shed, Victoria, Walverden, Bradley Shed, Throstle Nest, Bankfield, Bowling, Valley, Oak Bank, Hendon, Glenfield & Scholefield Mills. Extracts from an early directory are also provided. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...