The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., & designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg`s heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, & ultimately cost him his own.A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, by trade a poultry importer, as Sweden`s Special Envoy to Budapest in 1944. With remarkable bravery, Wallenberg created a system of protective passports, & sheltered thousands of desperate Jews in buildings he claimed were Swedish libraries & research institutes. As the war drew to a close, his invaluable work almost complete, Wallenberg voluntarily went to meet with the Soviet troops who were relieving the city. Arrested as a spy, Wallenberg disappeared into the depths of the Soviet system, never to be seen again. For this seminal biography, Ingrid Carlberg has carried out unprecedented research into all elements of Wallenberg`s life, narrating with vigour & insight the story of a heroic life, & navigating with wisdom & sensitivity the truth about his disappearance & death. Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg ...

Rapperswil area, map No. 226T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane & Helen Macdonald Of all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor ...

Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 & the Authors` Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane & Helen Macdonald Of all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor reigns supreme, sparking the imagination like no other. In this magnificent hymn to these beautiful animals, James Macdonald Lockhart explores all fifteen breeding birds of prey on these shores
- from the hen harrier swimming over the land in the dregs of a May gale on Orkney, to the ghostly sparrowhawk displaying in the fields around his home in Warwickshire. This is a book that will change how we think of our own skies.
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The essential field guide to the raptors of Mexico & Central America Raptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, & behavior. Raptors of Mexico & Central America is the first illustrated guide to the region`s 69 species of raptors, including vagrants. It features 32 stunning color plates & 213 color photos, & a distribution map for each regularly occurring species. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, age-related plumages, status & distribution, subspecies, molt, habitats, behaviors, potential confusion species, & more. Raptors of Mexico & Central America is the essential field guide to this difficult bird group & the ideal travel companion for anyone visiting this region of the world.* Covers all 69 species of raptors found in Mexico & Central America* Features 32 color plates & hundreds of color photos* Provides multiple illustrations of each species* Depicts & describes variations in plumage by individual, morph, age, & region* Describes behavior, food preferences, hunting strategies, vocalizations, & molt* Covers rare & extralimital species*

Includes:: distribution maps & flight silhouettes

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The draft dodger Laurence yearns to take control of his destiny. Having fled to the highlands, he asserts his independence by committing a string of robberies & murders. Then he happens upon Ivlita, a beautiful young woman trapped in an intricately carved mahogany house. Laurence does not hesitate to take her as well. Determined to drape his young bride in jewels, he plots ever more daring heists. Yet when Laurence finds himself casting bombs alongside members of a revolutionary cell, he must again ask: is he a free man or a pawn of history? Rapture is a fast-paced adventure-romance & a literary treat of the highest order. With a deceptively light h&, Iliazd entertains questions that James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, & Thomas Mann once faced. How does the individual balance freedom & necessity, love & death, creativity & sterility? What is the role of violence in human history & culture? How does language both comfort & fail us in our postwar, post-Christian world? Censored for decades in the Soviet Union, Rapture was nearly lost to Russian & Western audiences. This translation rescues Laurence`s surreal journey from the oblivion he, too, faces as he tries to outrun fate. ...