Road maps of Mexico’s states from Ediciones Independencia highlighting numerous places of interest & tourist facilities, with each title also providing a large street plan of the provincial capital plus maps of other local towns, popular tourist resorts and/or archaeological sites. The state maps show the road & rail networks on a clear base, with topography indicated by rivers & areas liable to inundation, plus names of main mountain ranges & peaks (no heights). National parks & other protected areas are brightly highlighted. A range of symbols provides information for tourists: accommodation including campsites & trailer parks, historical & archaeological sites, beaches & spas, sport & leisure centres, natural curiosities, etc. The maps show latitude & longitude as margin ticks & crosshairs, mostly at 30’ or 1° intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. Most maps have no index. Each title

Includes:: a large street plan of the provincial capital, plus plans of selected other towns. In addition to street names, the plans also show names of local districts. Plans of the state capital usually have a list of various locations, facilities and/or places on interest highlighted on it, & some include an enlargement showing the town centre in greater detail. Each title also has a table of distances, plus a table showing various facilities & places of interest in the main towns of the state.



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The Tour of Mont Blanc (TMB), FFRP topoguide, Ref. No. 028, with colour extracts from the relevant topographic maps from the IGN plus Swiss & Italian publishers, route descriptions cross-referenced to the maps, a list of accommodation & a table showing all the facilities, etc. Current edition of this title was published in February 2014. The guide presents this classic tour on colour extracts from the IGN ...

In To a Mountain in Tibet Colin Thubron undertakes a very personal & reflective journey to the sacred Mount Kailas, joining Buddhist & Hindu pilgrims on an arduous trek from Nepal, through the high passes of Tibet, to the magical lakes beneath the holy slopes of the mountain. Thubron ...

TOP TEN BESTSELLER Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world`s mountains
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Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 & promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life & love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families & history reassert their claim & the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds. Forty years later, finally `old enough to understand how young I was back then` Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends. To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal & the political, about love & home & about the cruel & merciful law of unintended consequences. ...

An utterly mad, entirely heart-warming Highland adventure from the Man Booker-longlisted author of & the Land lay Still Douglas is fifty years old
- he`s just lost his job, been kicked out by his girlfriend & moved back into his dad`s house. Just when things are starting to look hopeless, he makes a very unexpected new friend: a talking toad. Mungo is a wise-cracking, straight-talking, no-nonsense kind of toad
- & he is determined to get Douglas`s life back on track. Together, man & beast undertake a madcap quest to the distant Highlands, hot on the trail of a hundred-year-old granny, a beautiful Greek nymph, a split-personality alcoholic/teetotaller, a reluctant whisky-smuggler, & the elusive glimmer of redemption.. .

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The Compact Guide series from Insight is an accessible & handy reference guide, describing main sites & cultural highlights. Each illustrated guide

Includes:: an introductory chapter with a selection of the top ten things to do & gives visitors an insight into history, culture & geography. An extensive ‘places to visit’ section details the main attractions, with individual sites grouped by local region & accompanied by detailed commentary. Star attractions & fact profiles are also given on each page. A cultural chapter provides information on holidays, festivals, architecture & local customs. Further practical guidance on getting around, food & drink, nightlife & accommodation is also prominent. Each guide has a large selection of colour photographs & a number of overview maps showing the local area.

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Guided by its various twists & turns, To Catch a King tells the story the manhunt for Charles II, following the rebellion that spurred his father`s beheading in 1649. This unputdownable sequel to Killers of the King tells an old story with new eyes, challenging our polarised notions of royalism, nationalism & loyalty. In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall & Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell`s armies at the battle of Worcester. With 3, 000 of his supporters lying dead & 10, 000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught & follow his father to the block? At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries & with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell`s soldiers on his tail & a vast price on his head? The next six weeks would form the most memorable & dramatic of Charles` life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception & relying on grit, fortitude & good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree
- an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; Charles disguising himself as a servant & as one half of an eloping couple to escape capture. Charles never forgot those who helped him &, when restored to the throne as Charles II, told the tale of his adventures to Samuel Pepys who transcribed it all. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys` account & many others to retell this epic story. With bloodied feet & facing certain death if caught, Charles relied upon a patchwork of hiding places that had evolved to hide Catholics from lethal persecution. Now, in the 1650s, they saved the life of a king.
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall & Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell`s armies at the battle of Worcester. With 3, 000 of his supporters lying dead & 10, 000 taken prisoner, it seemed as if his dreams of power had been dashed. Surely it was a foregone conclusion that he would now be caught & follow his father to the block? At six foot two inches tall, the prince towered over his contemporaries & with dark skin inherited from his French-Italian mother, he stood out in a crowd. How would he fare on the run with Cromwell`s soldiers on his tail & a vast price on his head? The next six weeks would form the most memorable & dramatic of Charles` life. Pursued relentlessly, Charles ran using disguise, deception & relying on grit, fortitude & good luck. He suffered grievously through weeks when his cause seemed hopeless. He hid in an oak tree
- an event so fabled that over 400 English pubs are named Royal Oak in commemoration. Less well-known events include his witnessing a village in wild celebrations at the erroneous news of his killing; the ordeal of a medical student wrongly imprisoned because of his similarity in looks; he disguised himself as a servant & as one half of an eloping couple. Once restored to the throne as Charles II, he told the tale of his escapades to Samuel Pepys, who transcribed it all. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, based on extensive archive material, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys`s account & many others to retell this epic adventure.
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The Paris-Dakar Rally is without doubt the most arduous & notorious off-road motorsport event on the planet. Considered one of the world`s top five adventures, the human drama that unfolds each January is unparalleled. Tales of danger, blinding sandstorms, endless vistas of towering dunes, incredible hardships, tragedy & triumph have greatly contributed to the aura & mystique of the rally. In To Dakar & Back, Hacking, with De Clercq recount the three weeks of blood, sweat & tears that took him from the glitz of Paris to the hinterland of North Africa. ...