This view was produced by assembling hundreds of images from NOAA weather satellites which orbit the earth at an altitude of over 820 km (520 miles). The resulting cloud-free satellite image is enhanced with shaded-relief for land & the sea bed & natural colours to depict vegetation distribution & landscape variations. Printed on high quality paper. ...

A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way & chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Maria`s sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. & to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria & her husband Martin fled Stockholm for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination. As Maria settles into her lonely new life, walking the wild, desolate moors, it becomes clear that Winsford isn`t quite the sanctuary she thought it would be. While the long, dark evenings close in & the weather worsens, strange things begin to happen around her. But what terrible secrets is Maria guarding? & who is trying to find her? ...

Britain possesses one of the most remarkable & varied coastlines in the world, with its richness in geology & human history on display. Since the dawn of time the sea has been sculpting the rocks, sands & marshes, constantly changing the shape of the coastline & the inhabitants of Britain have adapted, defended, sometimes surrendered it or recaptured it in response to the forces of nature. ” The Living Coast” brilliantly celebrates this dynamic interplay between sea, land & people in over 350 sumptuous images from the air
- a seagull`s-eye view round the 9, 000 miles of British coast, from Land`s End to the wave-pounded isles & the ancient rocks of the far north; the receding shores & sensationally beautiful estuaries of the east; &, the familiar chalk cliffs, crumbling Jurassic coast & drowned river valleys of the south. This book is composed of 14 chapters, each beginning with a narrative & ending with a photographic exhibition. The coast is taken region by region, moving clockwise round the perimeter of the UK.
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This view of the world was produced by assembling hundreds of individual images from NOAA weather satellites which orbit the earth at an altitude of over 820 km (520 miles). The resulting cloud-free satellite image is presented as a cylindrical projection centred on the Atlantic Ocean. It is enhanced with shaded-relief for land & the sea bed & natural colours to depict vegetation distribution.A fine overprint depicts the international land borders & margin ticks show latitude & longitude at 15 ...

In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu`s Durbar Square lives Nepal`s famous Living Goddess
- a child as young as three who is
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The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd`s knowledge of the natural world, & a poetic & philosophical meditation on our longing for high & holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd makes the familiar strange & the strange awe-inspiring. Her sensitivity & powers of observation put her into the front rank of nature writing. ...

In The Living Stones, the British surrealist painter & writer Ithell Colquhoun drifts through Cornwall in search of an artist`s studio & sanctuary from the modern world. Her finely wrought & learned observations of festivals, fairs & druidic rituals, quickly establish her as the reader`s gnostic guide to the county. She paints a land of ghosts, pedlars, borrowed saints & holy sites, charmed wells & crumbling megaliths, & finds in the city emigrants a prefiguring of hippie culture. Above all, Colquhoun connects us with the eerie, numinous beauty of the Cornish countryside, quietly insisting that we see the Cornwall she sees: an ancient land of myth & legend. ...

A celebration in photographs of the most spectacular of the world`s animals & their environments. As we look into the new millennium we are in danger of destroying our planet`s wonderful diversity of life. Art Wolfe has created this portrait of the animals that we still have time to save, examining those now considered extremely rare, & celebrating the successes of their conservation. Covering 42 countries across seven habitats, from polar to tropical, from oceanic islands to high mountains, he takes us to areas inaccessible to even the most determined of travellers. There are essays by leading naturalists & field notes for each photograph. ...

The Livingston Desk Globe with Illuminated Globe Ball has conventional appeal. Suitable for any setting, the Livingston is traditionally styled with a hardwood base & gold tone metal semi-meridian. The two-way map & raised relief design of this 30cm diameter globe provide a standard view of the physical world or an illuminated display of the political world. ...

A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Falmouth & Helstone (showing part of the South West Coast Path). Edition A2; Publication date December 2009 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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