Oostvaardersplassen area of the Netherlands in a series of walking & cycling maps at 1:25, 000 – 1:35, 000, published by Falk BV in cooperation with Staatsbosbeheer – Dutch government’s organization for forestry & the management of nature reserves. Colouring indicates different types of vegetation or terrain: woodl&, pastures, heath or sand dunes. Given the topography of most of the country, the maps have no contour lines. The maps show local hiking trails, indicating their waymarking & include cycle paths & horse riding. Many local crossroads are annotated with the numbers of ANWB signposts & ‘mushrooms’ – a useful aid when navigating in Dutch countryside. Symbols indicate various tourist facilities & places of interest, including different types of accommodation, cafes, windmills, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in Dutch only. On the reverse each title has supplementary information, in Dutch only, about the region`s attractions. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Ooty in Tamil Nadu & Mysore in Karnataka combined together as two panels of one map from the Indian publishers TTK, supplied with a 48-page booklet which provides a guide to the two towns, with descriptions of places of interest, lists of hotels, etc. The map itself is in two panels, covering Ooty (now officially Udagamandalam although, apparently, the locals do not call it by this name and ...

Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship & dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, & fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby & stuck-up. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory`s beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst & her fellow Suffragettes. & when Opal meets Morgan
- Mrs Roberts` handsome son, & the heir to Fairy Glen
- she believes she has found her soulmate. But the First World War is about to begin, & will change Opal`s life for ever. The brilliantly gripping new story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.

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Opal Sunset marks the exuberant introduction of Clive James s poetry to an American audience. Praised after the publication of Cultural Amnesia as one of the finest prose stylists of his generation, Clive James is now, with the publication of this collection, being granted recognition as the poet he has always been. For much of his long career it was hard to realize that James s gift for poetry underlay his achievements in other fields. First as a television critic on Fleet Street, & later as a television personality in his own right, he achieved such fame for writing the way he spoke that his poetry was regarded as an idiosyncratic sideline, as if no celebrity could write worthy verse. A conundrum presented itself: how could a serious poet also be a television star? But for James, a duty to the discipline of verse was always fundamental, & his accumulated poetic output became impossible to ignore. As early as the 1970s, James s long, mock epic Peregrine Prykke s Pilgrimage through the London Literary World received almost unprecedented attention in his adopted Engl&, while later, his satirical short poem The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered became not only a standard verse"ed at fancy dinner parties but entered the culture as lines to be memorized by unpublished writers everywhere. James was suddenly in the odd position of having written famous poems well before he became a famous poet. Finally, the publication of a volume of his collected verse, The Book of My Enemy, earned him in 2003 the reputation as a serious poet that he has long deserved. Less inhibited by fixed categories, a new generation of critics has confirmed what James s public has instinctively known, that he brings his poems to life with all the resources to be found in his prose: wit, imagination, social observation, & a dazzling play of language. In addition, his poems have an unmistakably characteristic rhythm that makes it compulsory to read them aloud. Switching between strict stanzas & free forms as the occasion suits, James brings a compulsively readable coherence to either mode; & always, over & above the binding force of his metrical assurance, there is a lyricism that brings even the plainest statement to extra life, & which often enters deeply into realms of human emotion. His later poems about the tragedy that struck his mother & father, for example, show an intensity of regret that mark his maturity as a poet & bring out his unashamed nostalgia for his homel&, Australia. Opal Sunset is a treasure chamber of epigrammatic jewels to which the reader will return again & again.” ...

Map No. 148, Opavsko, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart highlighting both signposted cycling routes & other local cycling paths, with route profiles & additional tourist information. Relief is shown by contour lines, spot heights, & subtle hill-shading. The maps show roads, tracks, railways, cable cars, chairlifts, & a range of natural landscape features & landmarks. Coloured symbols depict plenty of additional tourist features e.g. information centres, places of interest, antiquities, shelters, campsites, accommodation, bicycle services etc. An overprint highlights both signposted routes & other recommended routes which have no terrain markers. For all bike routes intermediate distances are shown. Hiking paths are also highlighted. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 5' intervals. Each map is accompanied by a booklet containing general information on the Czech cycle route network, elevation profile diagram for selected routes, plus an index for locations of historical & geographical interest, bicycle service workshops, information centres, & tourist attractions. Map legend & text are in English, German & Czech. ...

The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons & events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity. Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, & they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well, encountering people from different cultures & classes who will provide insight on his journey
- which takes him to Brussels, to the Nigeria of his youth, & into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul. A hunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, & surrender, Teju Cole`s ” Open City” seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our world.
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When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand & courted by an official investigating her partner`s disappearance. She might settle down, although a local girl is also irresistible.. . This evocative, atmospheric book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places, with unexpected people. ...

Every year for one weekend in September, hundreds of buildings in London
- some historical, some modern, but all great works
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Time Out Open London allows visitors to meticulously plan their stay in London, from arrival to departure, & gives them the most inclusive visitor experience possible, as well as planning for & enjoying the London 2012 Olympic Games & Paralympic Games. The guide will select the very best Sightseeing, Walks, Shops, Nightlife & Activities, all with full transport details & divided by location. Anyone with mobility or accessibility issues
- from parents with young children to the elderly or wheelchair users
- will find this guide a great asset in getting the most out of London.

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: when adopted midwife Mariam embarks on a project to protect an abandoned premature baby, she is forced to face her own abandonment years before. Time is running out before the baby is sent to the orphanage. Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby`s fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in love... Alice Allan`s debut novel is an original, vivid & moving story about attachment & loss. ...