Tampa – St Petersburg map in a series of Rand Mc Nally’s regional road maps covering the environs of main US cities. The map covers the coast of western Florida, extending from well north of Ocala to south of Sarasota & inland to include Disney World. Insets provide street plans of Saint Petersburg, Tampa, Sarasota & Clearwater. Other communities covered by the map include Arcadia, Bartow, Bay Lake, Bradenton, Brooksville, Clermont, Inverness, Lakel&, Leesburg, Tarpon Springs, Winter Haven & Zephyrhills. Maps in this series present the road network on a clear background with no relief shading to show the area’s topography, but with national or state parks, forests & other protected areas indicated by colouring. Roads are numbered and/or named, showing toll highways, exit numbers of interchanges, services & rest areas. Local airports are marked, but railways & other urban transport lines are not included unless specifically indicated in the individual description. Each town is presented in a different colour, providing those unfamiliar with the region a very clear picture of the area. Various places of interest & facilities are highlighted, including cultural & historical sites, educational institutions, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Each title is indexed. Several maps also include enlargements of the downtown area, plans of international airports, a mileage & driving times diagram for a much wider region than covered by the main map, etc
- for more information please see the individual descriptions. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Tampa in Florida on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset provides a more detailed street plan of downtown Tampa. Communities covered by this map include East Tampa, Gibsonton, Lutz, Mullis City, Progress Village & Temple Terrace. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

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. ...

Topographic mapping from Mexico’s national survey agency, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. The maps have contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & indicate various types of terrain & vegetation, e.g. dense vegetation, cultivated areas, swamps, sand dunes, salt pans, etc. UTM grid is at 10km intervals, with latitude & longitude shown by margin ticks at intervals of 5`. Map legend is in Spanish only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Tamworth in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Baddesley Ensor, Castle Bromwich, Fazeley, Glascote, Kingsbury, Minworth, Polesworth & Water Orton. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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Half-African, half-Indian & beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay, an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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A letter from the past forces a disgraced bureaucrat to confront his future Tangier tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, & the other a spy story set fifty years apart & told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944 -- or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches the narrow lanes & twisted souls of Tangiers ancient medina in search of the father he never knew. The second is a tale of espionage & betrayal, set in Morocco during WWII. Rene Laurent, Christophers father, struggles to maintain his integrity -- & his life -- in the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as Christopher unravels the mystery of his fathers fate, & Laurent becomes trapped in a web of lies & corruption, & caught up, too, in the arms of a woman he knows he shouldnt trust. Ultimately, this is the story of fathers & sons, the alienation of being a stranger in a strange l&, the seductive face of betrayal &, finally, the lengths well go to for redemption. ...

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, & the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century, the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time, the most prominent being Burroughs` Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles` The Sheltering Sky. The list of ”edge” writers who were drawn to Tangier is long, among them Ibn Battuta, Samuel Pepys, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walter Harris, Jean Genet, Paul & Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Chester, Joe Orton, & Mohamed Choukri.
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”A dream concealed in stone...sky supersonic, orgone blue, warm wind... Such beauty, but more than that, it`s like the dream is breaking through.` William Burroughs No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of Tangier. From the 17th century, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines of government, a city of refuge & excitements where sex is cheap, drugs are plentiful & where the outcasts of the world can breathe easily. The golden years of Tangier began after World War I & barely survived World War II. Among those who sought sanctuary in or inspiration from this legendary city were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Paul & Jane Bowles, Ronnie Kray, the unhappy Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Cecil Beaton & Truman Capote. It is this `last resort of the living dead, alive but not madly kicking` which Iain Finlayson explores in his witty, enthralling book. ...