Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the oath-brothers Thorgeir & Thormod, inspired by the old Icelandic sagas Saga of the Sworn Brothers & Saga of Saint Olaf. The brothers fight for glory, raid for treasure, & seduce women against the backdrop of a new cult of Christianity. But where the old sagas depict their heroes as glorious champions, Laxness does the opposite. As Thormod avenges Thorgeir`s death, he demonstrates the senselessness of violence & the endlessly cyclical nature of obsession. ...

Wölzer Tauern
- Sölktal
- Rottenmanner Tauern area of the Austrian Alps presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured & GPS

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Wörther See
- Klagenfurt area of Carinthia in southern Austria on a detailed, GPS compatible map at 1:25, 000 from Kompass with
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Wörther See
- Ossiacher See
- Gerlitzen
- Faaker See
- Karawanken
- Villach
- Klagenfurt area of Carinthia presented





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Wörthersee
- Ossiacher See area of Carinthia at 1:35, 000 on a GPS compatible, double-sided map from Kümmerly+ Frey printed on
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Württemberg Winelands Cycle Route, a 360-km long cycle trail from Rottenburg on the Neckar across the Tauber Valley to Niederstetten, presented by the Verlag Esterbauer in guide with maps at 1:50, 000 showing the route & its variants. Extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
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Includes:: ENGLISH (please see our sample image) & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German.ABOUT THE BIKELINE SERIES: all the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

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Map No. 166, Würzburg
- Maindreieck
- Schweinfurt, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of

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A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin`s ” We” is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn R&. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is translated from the Russian with an introduction by Clarence Brown. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ` Benefactor`, the citizens of the totalitarian society of One State live out lives devoid of passion & creativity
- until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, ” We” is the classic dystopian novel & was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell`s ”1984” & Aldous Huxley`s ” Brave New World”. It was suppressed for many years in Russia & remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting & vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown`s brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years` suppression. Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a naval engineer by profession & writer by vocation, who made himself an enemy of the Tsarist government by being a Bolshevik, & an enemy of the Soviet government by insisting that human beings have absolute creative freedom. He wrote short stories, plays & essays, but his masterpiece is ” We”, written in 1920-21 & soon thereafter translated into most of the languages of the world. It first appeared in Russia only in 1988. If you enjoyed ” We”, you might like George Orwell`s ”1984”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” The best single work of science fiction yet written”. (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of ” The Left Hand of Darkness”). ” It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle & cannot put back again”. (George Orwell, author of ”1984”).
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We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, & dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls & a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called D-503, keeps a journal of his life & activities: to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense & proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in. Written in a highly charged, direct & concise style, Zamyatin`s 1921 seminal novel
- here presented in Hugh Aplin`s crisp translation
- is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time & a precursor of the works of Orwell & the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentieth-century history & a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.

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Summer 1981 At a party held in the garden of a beautiful chateau in the village of Canas, in southern France, a young man takes his life. In doing so he seeks to bury a terrible family legacy, unleashed in the aftermath of WWII; but his suicide breaks his family apart. Winter 2010 Kate & Stephen Glover, a young London couple, arrive in Canas for a much needed sabbatical. Kate, seeking escape from her marriage, is irrevocably drawn to the village & to the derelict chateau at its heart. What she cannot know is that her interest in the chateau will reawaken old ghosts, forcing the family who once lived there finally to reunite & confront the tragedy of the past... Moving between the postwar years & the present day, We All Ran into the Sunlight is a heartbreaking story of love, misplaced desire & the damage done when the truth is withheld. ...