With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected...

For more than 20 years, Explorer's Dubai Residents' Guide has been the handbook for living and working in Dubai. From arriving in Dubai to moving on and everything in between, this new-look and fully revised 2017/18 edition includes all the latest info. Whether you're considering the move, you're fresh off the plane, or you're a seasoned local, this is the one resource that you won't want to be without. From finding work to making the most of your...

Our latest Oman Visitors' Guide is small enough to fit in your bag but is big on information about this mesmerizing country. Written and researched by local residents, this brilliant guide is bursting with up-to-date detail and stunning images. The mini marvel covers every corner of Oman, from exploring souks of Muscat, turtle spotting on a beach to fine dining in some of Oman's top restaurants. This is an indispensable guide to an inspirational country....

The present work, happens to be the first comprehensive work on the districts of Uttranchal state. All the information about tourist points, minerals and areas occurrences has been incorporated with much care. The volume contains worth knowing information about each district in Uttaranchal: Location and area; History; Population; Languages and Religion; Geography and Physical Features; Rivers, Canals and Waterways; Towns, villages and Amenities; Communications;...

The District Gazetteer of Chhattisgarh gives us authentic information about all sixteen districts of the State as per census 2001. All the information about minerals and ores, occurrences with latitude with much care in this valuable study. Besides this the book provides all the relevant information about each district including history 'places of tourist interest and development scenario The book is given worth knowing following information about...

Completely updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking atlas maps the competing claims on limited water supplies--made by farmers, industrialists and householders--and investigates the uses and abuses of the resource, as well as the vexed question of how it can be equitably managed.

This full-color atlas of the United States features maps of the North American continent, regions, and individual states.

Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated - nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised - the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THE...

"Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either "got too greedy" or "Napoleon turned up." Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. This is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map."--Dust...

This is the tale of an extraordinary adventure, completing the circuit of the Swiss border on foot, by bike and kayak, following the line of the frontier as closely as possible. A total distance of close to 2'500 km, and 120'000 vertical metres (about 13 times the height of Everest!) covered in 115 days in 2015 and 2016, in sometimes dangerous conditions off the beaten track. In this time the author scaled just over a hundred summits and an equivalent...