The Kiel Canal: North Sea to the Baltic (No. 711), a detailed, GPS compatible map at 1:50, 000 from Kompass with local & long-distance footpaths, cycling routes, accommodation, etc, printed on durable, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper.KOMPASS HIKING & RECREATIONAL MAPS: This title is part of an extensive series covering Austria, much of Germany & the Slovenian Alps. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of hiking maps; their mapping of other countries, including expanding coverage of Italy, is listed on our website separately.CARTOGRAPHY: The maps are contoured with additional shading, graphic relief & colouring to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10m in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous regions. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Latest editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES: Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. MAP LEGEND: Most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.OTHER
Features: Selected titles include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have a booklet with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage.BOOKLETS: PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING! Many titles come with a booklet describing the area and/or various hiking routes. Unless indicated in the individual description that the booklet

Includes:: English, these booklets are IN GERMAN only. The booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, full English language map legend is provided.


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A murderer obsessed with comic strips... When Mayor Marsalis' son, Gerald, is found dead in his studio, his body is stained red & arranged like the cartoon character Linus
- with a blanket next to his ear & his thumb stuck in his mouth. Desperate, Marsalis asks his ex-cop brother, Jordan, to investigate the murder. Yet the killer strikes again. This time Chandelle Stuart, a film producer with strange sexual predilections, is found leant against a piano like Lucy, listening to Shroeder playing. Meanwhile, a beautiful young detective Maureen Martini has moved from Rome to New York to forget the brutal murder of her boyfriend. After undergoing a corneal transplant, she starts having distressing visions that somehow seem connected with the grisly murders. Thrown together, Maureen & Jordan race against time to unmask this killer. But who is Snoopy? & who is Pig Pen? & why does this killer find pleasure in arranging his victims like comic-strip characters? In New York nothing is ever quite what it seems...
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Who killed Nanna Birk Larsen? That was the question on many lips when, in 2011, the BAFTA winning first series of The Killing was aired on British television. The subsequent column inches, not least about a certain black & white Faroe Island jumper, & critical success it garnered were partly a legacy of the previous year ...

Who killed Nanna Birk Larsen? That was the question on many lips when, in 2011, the BAFTA winning first series of The Killing was aired on British television. The subsequent column inches, not least about a certain black & white Faroe Island jumper, & critical success it garnered were partly a legacy of the previous year’s great success, The Wire, which had shown the appetite for a sophisticated investigation of the relationship between crime & politics. Acclaimed crime writer David Hewson has not, in this novelised version of the series, given us just another hack work spin-off, but a superb example of engrossing, literary detective fiction, so well written that it is now being translated & readied for publication in Danish. Instead of just giving us a verbatim transcript of the subtitles to the tv series, Hewson took the trouble to travel to Copenhagen & consult with Søren Sveistrup, the series script writer. What has emerged is a novel which has its own integrity & its own perspective, for Hewson takes on the persona of a witness to the events, just as the television viewer is. Where the television series at times seemed in danger of making Copenhagen seem dreary, Hewson has retained the gloomy Scandi atmosphere we all know & love, & given the novel’s ending an extra twist rather than an insulting anti-climax or an easy moral. Anyone who appreciates clever detective fiction & has not seen the series will find this riveting, while those who are already fans of the television series will be mesmerised by Hewson’s dynamic style & alternative ending. ...

Thirty nine steps rose from the busy road of Tuborgvej into Mindelunden, with its quiet graves & abiding bitter memories. Lennart Brix, head of the Copenhagen homicide team, felt he`d been walking them most of his life. Beneath the entrance arch, sheltering from the icy rain, he couldn`t help but recall that first visit almost fifty years before. A five-year-old boy, clutching the hand of his father, barely able to imagine what he was about see.. . The bark of a dog broke his reverie. Brix looked at the forensic officers, white bunny suits, mob hats, marching grim-faced down the rows of graves, towards the space in the little wood where the rest of the team was gathering.. . Three gnarled stakes, replicas now, with the originals in the Frihedsmuseet. A woman was tied to the centre pole, hands behind her back, bound with heavy rope round her torso. Blonde hair soaked with rain & worse, head down, chin on chest, crouched awkwardly on her knees. A gaping wound at her neck like a sick second smile. She wore a blue dressing gown slashed in places all the way to the waist, flesh & skin visible where the frenzied blade had stabbed at her. Her face was bruised & dirty. Blood poured from her nostrils, had dried down each side of her mouth, like makeup on a tragic clown.. . It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark -- a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen & becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern & she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed.. . ...

`I love Robert Thorogood`s writing`
- Peter James An original story from the creator & writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death
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`I love Robert Thorogood`s writing`
- Peter James An original story from the creator & writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death
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Despite being from opposite sides of the world, Ruslan & Sarah are brought together in the aftermath of the tsunami. Sarah is sailing with her family when the giant wave hits their boat, flinging the family apart. Her mother is killed, & alone with her younger brother, Sarah begins to search for their missing father. Ruslan`s father, a mechanic, was supposed to have been working on a ship when the tsunami struck, but all is not as it seems. It turns out that he had been using the job as a cover to travel to the rebel area of Bergang. In order to find his father, Ruslan must therefore undergo a dangerous journey through rebel territory. In the midst of widespread destruction, Sarah & Ruslan`s paths cross, & their lives are changed forever. ...

Emily`s dad is accused of murdering a teenage girl in the woods behind her house, the place she played in as a child. She`s sure he`s innocent, but what did happen? Determined to find out
- & afraid of what she might discover
- Emily seeks out the boyfriend of the murdered girl. He also knows these woods. Maybe they could help each other. But Damon Hillary has his own secrets about the dangerous games that are being played in the dark.

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The Kimberley region in northern Western Australia, between the border with Northern Territory & Broome, including the Great Northern Highway, described by Moon Adventure Publication in a spiral-bound guide slightly larger than A5, illustrated with numerous maps. An introductory section to the area, covering its history & fauna/flora, is followed by advice on planning & preparation. The region is then described in seven chapters: Around Halls Creek, Eastern Kimberley, Mitchell Plateau & Northern Kimberley, Gibb River Road, East along the King Leopold Ranges. Derby to Fitzroy Crossing, plus Broome & its Surrounds. Each chapter is accompanied by map (s) of its interesting area (s), showing the road network including 4WD tracks with symbols indicating local facilities. Where useful, accompanying text provides GPS coordinates for road junctions, camping grounds & recreational sites, etc. Descriptions of locations include advice on recreational possibilities, accommodation, etc, & include useful website addresses and/or contact details for 4WD tours, recreational sites/providers, accommodation, etc. The index lists both locations & accommodation, sites for recreational pursuits, etc. ...