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The Unofficial Countryside

Richard Mabey reveals the astonishingly rich world of animal and plant life surviving and often thriving among docklands, railways, factories and canals.

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- SHOM Chart 7256 – De Soรปr ร Al รrish
  
  PLEASE NOTE: the chart will be ordered for you if not currently in stock. Please allow 1-2 weeks for the chart to reach Stanfords. SHOM charts Read More »
- Moments of Mindfulness: Buddhist Offerings
  
  Each book in the `Moments of Mindfulness` series pairs the wise words of a great writer, master, philosopher or poet with Olivier Follmi`s beautiful and moving Read More »
- Shakespeare on Flowers: Panorama Pops
  
  This exquisite cut-paper gift book is a beautiful celebration of the many flowers that appear in Shakespeare`s plays and poems. In this gorgeously illustrated three-dimensional unfolding Read More »
- ARC404E Great Slave Lake and Mackenzie River, 2012 – CHS Sailing Directions
  
  Sailing Directions offer detailed descriptions of the best approaches to harbours, harbour facilities, anchorages, local history and regulations. They are the indispensable companions to charts. Read More »
- Croatia: Freytag & Berndt Maps of the Croatian Coast
  
  The coast of Croatia on detailed tourist maps from Freytag & Berndt prominently highlighting campsites and other facilities, as well as numerous places of interest. The Read More »
- Secret Puglia: Amazing Places to Stay
  
  Follow us on a quest to uncover Puglia`s best-kept secrets: those boutique-hotels, farmhouses and period homes that have been designed to ensure the utmost privacy for Read More »
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing
  
  When Owl`s house is blown down in a blusterous storm there`s only one Small Animal who can save the day.This story first appeared in A. A.Milne`s Read More »
- Tresco: St Helen`s, Tean and Round Island
  
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- Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan ITMB
  
  Double-sided, indexed map presenting on one side Kazakhstan at 1:3,000,000 accompanied by street plans of Astana and Almaty, with on the reverse Uzbekistan at 1:1,580,000 with Read More »
- Island Peak – Mera Peak
  
  Two peaks of Nepal’s western Himalayas, Island Peak (Imja Tse) and Mera Peak, presented by Swiss publishers Climbing Map on separate contoured and GPS compatible panels Read More »

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- NOAA Chart 18649 – Entrance to San Francisco Bay
  
  NOAA maintains the nautical charts and publications for U.S. coasts and the Great Lakes. Over a thousand charts cover 95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.4 million Read More »
- Telde CNIG Topo 1104
  
  Telde area of Gran Canaria, map No. 1104 in the topographic coverage of the Canary Islands at 1:50,000 from the Instituto Geogrรกfico Nacional – Centro Nacional Read More »
- Canton Elegy: A Father`s Letter of Sacrifice, Survival and Love
  
  “The story you are about to read will have to make do for the conversations we never had.” Set against the backdrop of the events that Read More »
- The End of the Ocean
  
  From the author of the number one international bestseller `The History of Bees`, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as Read More »
- The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
  
  Add variety to your child`s bedtime routine with the latest book from the author of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, the global bestseller that Read More »

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- Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall
  
  The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken Read More »
- Weather
  
  This non-fiction series aims to encourage children to access the wonder of the world around them. The easy-to-read texts have been specially written with the help Read More »
- Fatal Pursuit: Bruno, Chief of Police: 9
  
  The real life disappearance of `the most beautiful car ever made` sparks a compelling new case for Bruno, chief of police The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic Read More »
- Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
  
  The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the Read More »
- Dolomites Tabacco UNESCO Tourist Map
  
  The Dolomites at 1:150,000 on a road map from Tabacco with excellent presentation of the topography derived from the publishers’ highly regarded and popular hiking maps, Read More »

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- The Phantom of the Opera
  
  Christine is a beautiful young singer at the Paris Opera. She is watched by the Opera`s `phantom` – a mysterious masked figure who terrorises the Opera`s Read More »
- Stanford`s Library Map of London Sheet 10 Colour (1862) – A4 Wall Map, Canvas
  
  This map covering Victorian London during a period of rapid expansion and improvement is from a fascinating series of reproductions from our Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection Read More »
- Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
  
  Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 `peaceful revolution` in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, Read More »
- Frances the Fox in the Library
  
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- Mediterranean France and Corsica Pilot
  
  This is a comprehensive companion to the long coastline that ranges from Spain and the edge of the Pyrenees to the Alpes Maritimes and Italy. It Read More »