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A handy road atlas to keep in your glove box. This easy-to-use, handy A5 sized road atlas is your ideal companion for travelling around Scotland. It has extremely clear, route planning maps of Scotland, detailed city plans of the major cities and towns and fits neatly into your glove box, briefcase or bag. Main features of this atlas include: Clear, attractive route planning maps of the whole of Scotland supported by comprehensive, fully indexed city centre street m...

The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley.

Take the rarest train routes, learn about the railways' people and animal friends, marvel at iconic stations, whizz over amazing bridges, steam through tremendous tunnels and visit the most spectacular railway sights. Ride across dramatic viaducts, visit Britain's busiest railway hub and its least-used station, stop at Britain's highest station, meet the railway cats and dogs, and more! This lively, interactive book will inspire children - and adults - to seize the moment and explore the wonderf...

It looks like a bear, but isn't one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey- but isn't a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what's a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.

Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America.Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries to make sense of this news, and the web of lies...

It's 1914 and the world is on the brink of war. But at almost fifteen, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, Rilla, dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford. Soon, however, even far-off Ingleside is engulfed by Europe's raging conflict, as Rilla's brothers Jem and Walter both enlist, and Rilla finds herself caring for an orphaned newborn.    As the conflict spreads, the Blythes wait anxiously for word of their absent sons, and a bad omen leads them...

As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what "America" meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people and sunlight and freeways. The second looked more like The Grapes of Wrath - a nightmare landscape filled with impoverished people, broken-down cars, barren landscapes, and broken dreams. Those contrasting ideas have stuck with Shing ever since, even now that she lives and works in LA. The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 is...

This A4 road atlas with popular lie-flat spiral binding features clear, detailed road mapping, at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch (1:200,000) for England, Wales and Southern Scotland and at 4.2 miles to 1 inch (1:266,000) in Northern Scotland, and including Northern Ireland with land height shown by attractive layer colouring. * Route planning section including maps at a scale of 22 miles to 1 inch for long distance route planning, motorway services information and a handy distance calc...

The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format paperback road atlas of Britain, featuring Collins' popular and well established road mapping, and designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. The atlas has a wide range of urban area maps at even larger scale and 64 detailed town centre street plans. This fully updated road atlas covers the whole of Britain with each scale of mapping colour-coded for ease of use. The smallest scale maps are great for long distance rou...

The US kid-favorite series Weird But True! is busting out with a BIG, BOLD extravaganza of the wackiest, wildest, and downright weirdest wonders on planet Earth. Discover Earth's strangest animals, natural formations, festivals, ancient wonders, news, and more.

Luisito Comunica viaja de un extremo a otro del planeta. La curiosidad es el motor de las aventuras que lo lanzan hasta los terrenos más inhóspitos y misteriosos. En lugares asombrosos. Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer el mundo podrás viajar – con Luisito como compañero y guía- A los lugares más reconditos de uno, dos y más continentes: a sitios abandonados que conservan la huella de un hecho inexplicable; espacios delineados por trazos y personajes místico...