Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge, & a young skipper`s determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge
- a 35, 000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts
- & the winners are those who keep their focus the longest. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall & his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest & least experienced skipper in the race, the win was no accident
- it was the culmination of years of training, skilled navigation & a leadership style way beyond his years. His leadership skills were soon put to the test
- in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane, Brendan went to the rescue of an injured skipper on a competing yacht & skippered both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world. Brendan`s brutally honest, no-holds-barred account is revealing & instructive, with valuable lessons in leadership & management
- as well as never giving up. Thrown in quite literally at the deep end, he is pushed to the limit, & learns lessons you can only learn the hard way.




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Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment & later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe & began practising as their first ever qualified doctor. But then a dark cloud descended upon her people... Janjaweed Arab militias began savagely assaulting her people. At first, Halima tried not to get involved. But in January 2004 they attacked people in her village. Halima treated the traumatised victims & was sickened by what she saw. She decided to speak out in a Sudanese newspaper & to the UN charities. Then the secret police came for her. For days Halima was interrogated & subjected to unspeakable torture. She finally escaped but the nightmare just seemed to follow her... This inspiring story tells of one woman's determination to survive & her passion to defend her people. For the first time, we can truly understand the personal horrors of Darfur from someone who lived through it. ...

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander Mc Call Smith sees the return of the charmingly entertaining adventures of Botswana’s premier female detective, it’s going to take all Precious Ramotswe’s intuition & eminent sensibility to crack her toughest case yet: the decade-old disappearance of an American on the edge of the Kalahari. What’s more, she must attend to concerns closer to home: the promotion of her secretary Mma Makutsi to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective; her impending marriage to the wonderful Mr J. L. B. Matekoni; the trouble caused by his unscrupulous maid; & the unexpected arrival of not one but two additions to the Matekoni family. ...

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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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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The Tech Case by Lifeventure is ideal for action cameras, camcorders, compact & system cameras.• Durable fabrics & zip closure.• EVA moulded base & lid• Soft protective fleece lining• Adjustable padded divider• PVC mesh zipped pocket• 5 cable tidies in the lid ...

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. ...

The latest, 2005 edition of the tectonic map of Switzerl&, with extensive explainations in German & French. The base map has contours plus spot heights & shows the road network with the names numerous towns & villages, main peaks, valleys, & other geographical features. ...

The latest, 2005 edition of the tectonic map of Switzerl&, with extensive explainations in German & French. The base map has contours plus spot heights & shows the road network with the names numerous towns & villages, main peaks, valleys, & other geographical features. ...

Tectonic map of the Scotia Arc at 1:3, 000, 000 from the British Antarctic Survey covering a wide region from the southernmost part of South America, Falkland Islands & South Georgia to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula & South Sandwich Islands. BAS reference for this title is BAS (Misc) 3..PLEASE NOTE: to see the list of other BAS maps of wider general interest please click on the series link. A separate series on our website presents BAS titles which are of interest mainly to scientific experts or academic staff: larger scale topographic or geological/earth sciences maps of sections of the Antarctic & maps accompanied by detailed booklets/monographs. ...