This airborne adventure takes readers ballooning over lands near & far, all the way to the stars. The singalong song on the accompanying CD keeps spirits high, while the rhyming & playful text introduces all sorts of settings & vocabulary-building words. ...

My eyes lifted to the horizon & the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs & films but never in real life. She looked angry. In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle & Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face. It would be harrowing & exhilarating in equal measure as they walked the fine line between life & death 8, 000 metres above sea level. For Ben, the seven-week expedition into the death zone was to become the adventure of a lifetime, as well as a humbling & enlightening journey. For his wife Marina, holding the family together at home, it was an agonising wait for news. Together, they dedicated the experience to their son, Willem Fogle, stillborn at eight months. Cradling little Willem to say goodbye, Ben & Marina made a promise to live brightly. To embrace every day. To always smile. To be positive & to inspire. & from the depths of their grief & dedication, Ben’s Everest dream was born. Up, from here the only way was Up. Part memoir, part thrilling adventure, Ben & Marina’s account of his ascent to the roof of the world is told with their signature humour & warmth, as well as with profound compassion. ...

The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq is here told by its musical director from its inception to its eventual end. The NYOI came through the most difficult & dangerous of times to produce fine music not only in Iraq but also in Britain, Germany, France & the United States. A beacon of hope & achievement the young musicians & their tutors made bridges across their own ethnic divisions, made great music in the most trying & tragic of circumstances, & became their country`s best ambassadors in 5000 years. ...

One of the titles in a series of contoured physical maps covering the coastal areas of Greenl&. The maps have the same cartography as the 1:250, 000 series by this publisher, reproduced here at half the original scale. The reduction means that some place names, symbols & fine detail are harder to read than on the original 1:250, 000 series. Main peaks, bays, channels etc. are named, & settlements, airstrips, & anchorages are shown. Glaciers, moraine & low-lying coastal plains are also distinguished. Lines of longitude & latitude are drawn at 1° & 15` intervals respectively. There is no map legend. ...

Topographic survey of Greenland at 1:250, 000 from Sagamaps in a series which along the western coast extends past Thule to the latitude of 78°, plus covers selected areas of the east coast including the Stauning Alps. Relief is shown by contours at 50m intervals, augmented by frequent spot heights. Main peaks are named, along with many other physical features, e.g. bays & islands. Glaciers, moraine & low-lying coastal plains are also indicated & contours continue for a limited extent into the icecap region. The maps show settlements, roads, airstrips & heliports, anchorages & selected other landmarks. Lines of longitude & latitude are drawn at 1° & 15` intervals respectively. Map legend which

Includes:: English is provided in a separate sheet. Saga’s topographic mapping of Greenland at 1:250, 000 is available either as 22 smaller sheets, sold separately or in sets of four maps, plus as three larger maps covering the western coast up to approx 65°. Selected titles are also published with a historical guide on the reverse illustrated with old photos, drawings & maps; all the text is in English. To see the full list of titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Paul Green`s photographic record of the Urban Paint Festival (UPFEST) in Bristol captures the event from its inception in 2008 to the present day. UPFEST takes place every summer around the Tobacco Factory in South Bristol & has transformed the area into a stunning canvas of street art & graffiti. The emphasis at UPFEST is to attract international artists as well as the best painters from Bristol`s thriving street art scene. Paul Green has been photographing UPFEST since the start & has produced a book of stunning book of images. ...

Upholland in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the village of Upholl&, originally part of Wigan parish but today in West Lancashire. Coverage stretches from the village centre around St Thomas church, northward to St Joseph's RC College at Walthew Park, & from the Abbey Lakes Hotel westward to the disused Windmill Colliery. This is largely a rural map but features include the village centre (now a Conservation area), Hall Green, Upholland Corn Mill, Holland House, Holland Windmill, Newgate etc. On the reverse is a 1918 directory of Upholland & Orrell. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Upholland in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the village of Upholl&, originally part of Wigan parish but today in West Lancashire. Coverage stretches from the village centre around St Thomas church, northward to St Joseph`s RC College at Walthew Park, & from the Abbey Lakes Hotel westward to the disused Windmill Colliery. This is largely a rural map but features include the village centre (now a Conservation area), Hall Green, Upholland Corn Mill, Holland House, Holland Windmill, Newgate, etc. On the reverse is a 1918 directory of Upholland & Orrell. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Upholland South in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of Upholland & western part of Orrell. Coverage runs from Orrell station westward to Upholland station, & from the ` Abbey Lakes` fishpond southward to Pimbo Lane. Features include L&YR railway from Orrell to Upholland with tunnel, mineral railways, Far Moor area, Tontine area, New Fold area, Lawns Works & tramway, Grammar School, Sandbrook Mill, St James RC church, Upholland Brick Works, Pimbo Lane Brick Works, Pimbo Lane Colliery & tramway, old shafts, etc. On the reverse is a section of the 1927 version, showing the New Fold & Pimbo Lane areas at a later stage. Features now include Mountain Mine Colliery. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Map No. 2820, Upington, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...