Category Archives: Maps
The Ultimate Bicycle Owner`s Manual: The Universal Guide to Bikes, Riding, and Everything for Beginner and Seasoned Cyclists
Eben Weiss, aka Bike Snob, is the voice of cyclists everywhere. Through his popular blog he has been informing, entertaining, and critiquing the bike-riding community since 2007. With his latest book, The Ultimate Bicycle Owner`s Manual, Weiss makes his vast experience and practical advice available to bike “newbies” and veterans alike. Chapters cover Obtaining a
The Three Peaks Challenge – Ben Nevis OS Explorer Map
The mountains of the Three Peaks Challenge – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon ‘“ on extracts from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer series, with enlargements of the summits, extracts from regional mapping to show road access, and an overview road map linking the three peaks.The area around each peak is presented on a 36x36cm
OS Map of Mars – Western Arabia Terra Wall Map
This Western Arabia Terra map is a topographical basemap full of our intricate detail for an area on the surface of Mars that`s similar in size to the USA. Showing a 3672x2721km extent (around 3.8m sq miles) of the Martian surface, this map of the Red Planet is Ordnance Survey`s first foray in to intragalactic
The Three Peaks Challenge – Scafell Pike OS Explorer Map
The mountains of the Three Peaks Challenge – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon ‘“ on extracts from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer series, with enlargements of the summits, extracts from regional mapping to show road access, and an overview road map linking the three peaks.The area around each peak is presented on a 36x36cm
City Cycling
Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to
The Three Peaks Challenge – Snowdon OS Explorer Map
The mountains of the Three Peaks Challenge – Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon ‘“ on extracts from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer series, with enlargements of the summits, extracts from regional mapping to show road access, and an overview road map linking the three peaks.The area around each peak is presented on a 36x36cm
Destination India
`A girl`s guide to survival and adventure.` – Sarah Morgan, bestselling author of Sleepless in Manhattan Let yourself go…Starting the Lonely hearts Travel Club was supposed to be the second chance that gave Georgia Green back her life. She thought it would be just like travelling, but the reality is far from rosy as she
Map of GB National Parks: 70th Anniversary Poster
Poster of all Great Britain`s National Parks.Shows the relative sizes, physical nature and shape and date of designation.
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao`s Great Famine
Yang Jisheng`s Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history`s most terrible crimes. More people died in Mao`s Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author`s privileged access to official and
India`s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945
SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 `Authoritative, expansive and incisive…helps restore India to the global twentieth century` Sunil Khilnani Between 1939 and 1945 India changed to an extraordinary extent. Millions of Indians suddenly found themselves as soldiers, fighting in Europe and North Africa but also – something simply never
The Strangler Vine
Calcutta, 1837. Young Ensign William Avery is tasked by his employers – the East India Company – to track down disgraced agent Xavier Mountstuart, lost to the jungle. Forced to take with him dissolute, disillusioned, errant genius ex-officer Jeremiah Blake, Avery is sure their mission is doomed. When their search leads them into Kali-worshipping, Thugee
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl`s Journey to Freedom
`I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.` Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn`t even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life,
On Palestine
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe`s indispensable update on a suffering region. What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss these critical
The Beach
A 20th anniversary edition of this million copy bestseller, with a new introduction by John Niven: a classic story of paradise found – and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach – and a new way
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest – Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Biography Award
Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Biography Award”One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation” Dan Jones, author of `The Plantagenets`”A small classic of
Before the Rains
A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband`s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza`s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she`s determined to make a name
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
`If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]` – Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world`s leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode
The House Without Windows
Discover a dazzling lost classic of nature writing and a visionary work of feminist empowerment – written almost a century ago by a twelve-year-old child…Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away – first to
If I Had Your Face: `Assured, bold, and electrifying` Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX
`Absolutely stunning. . . Assured, bold, and electrifying` Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX `One of the buzziest debuts of the year, If I Had Your Face transports readers to glittering, futuristic Seoul… Essential reading` VogueIf I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary
Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan
The material world is itself emptiness.Emptiness is itself the material world.Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to contain the condensed essence of all Buddhist wisdom. This brief poem on emptiness has exerted immense influence throughout Asia since the seventh century and is woven into the fabric of daily life. Yet even though
