Since Carol Drinkwater moved to an olive farm in France she has developed a passion for the olive tree & the culture that has grown up around it. From the eastern shores of the shimmering Mediterranean to its western coast this fruit is farmed. Its silvery-green branches have inspired painters & poets, but who first pressed its `bitter berry` & transformed it into liquid gold? In quest of its secrets & traditions, Carol embarked on a solo adventure round the Mediterranean basin. Transporting readers across the olive`s ancient paths, celebrating its venerable past, tracking trade routes, unearthing unlikely stories, encountering peoples of today & bygone times, Carol comes full circle, back to her farm in the sun-baked Provencal hills. ...

In this lovely children`s picture-book, Olive is no ordinary reindeer
- in fact, she’s not a reindeer at all! She’s a small dog
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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 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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When Noah goes Christmas shopping with his mum & baby sister, he has a brilliant time with his toy elephant, Oliver, playing peekaboo, hiding in a doll`s house & dancing Oliver on tables. But suddenly disaster strikes
- Oliver goes missing! &
- oh dear
- the department store is VERY big. Will Noah ever find his favourite toy again?


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The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens` tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid & memorable characters
- the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes & the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel & popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, & pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat & mystery.
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Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty & hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. In ” Oliver Twist”, Dickens graphically conjures up the capital`s underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves & lost & homeless children, & gives a voice to the disadvantaged & abused. ...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced & strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes
- grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation & the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy & 'the Artful Dodger'. For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.
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` Look here! Here`s a jolly life! What`s the odds where it comes from?` Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering & swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you`ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman & his brood of thieves & pickpockets. Fagin will bring you to `the trade`, & make something of you, something profitable. But there`s something about the young orphan Oliver that`s too good for this dark & dangerous world
- can he ever escape its clutches?

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Material: In ` The Backstory` you can learn more about Oliver Twist`s London! Vintage Children`s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.




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