New in Stock - January 2009

Make it a great new year of travels and get more out of your holidays with these fantastic new guidebooks, maps and even magazines... Get more planet for your pocket with Lonely Planet's new guide - The Big Trip. Find the hippest spots with le cool's funky guides, or subscribe to Which Holiday magazine for year-long travel tips and advice. Meanwhile, don't forget Linz in Austria has been made 2009's European Capital of Culture, and we of course are one step ahead with the only English-language guide to the city available.

Lonely Planet’s “The Big Trip” is the perfect guide for those preparing for gap years, career breaks or simply an adventure to take them to parts of the world they’ve never dreamed of experiencing. The book is full of ideas: swim with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand; learn Spanish in Guatemala; hike your own pioneer route through Canada; get a soaking at Thailand’s Songkran water festival...

The Big Trip
£14.99 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days

Unusual, very attractive street plan of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany's most visited small town, offering a bird’s-eye view of its historic centre with every building drawn to scale with full architectural detail, from street arcades to rooftops and inner courtyards. On the reverse is a conventional street plan of the town.

Rothenburg ob der Tauber in 3-D Street Plan
£9.25 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The first English-language title to Linz - recently announced as the Cultural Capital of Europe 2009. Austria’s third city is relatively unknown, but Linz’s history is both compelling and intriguing. The guide explores the heritage of this former ‘steel city’ that was the driving force behind Austria’s post-war boom, and how the city began to reinvent itself as a culture-orientated centre.

Linz-Donau
£14.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Exceptionally detailed map of the Flanders battlefields of WWI, with monuments and cemeteries annotated by nationality, colour coding for different stages of the war, all cross-referenced to a 64-page guide. The map is double-sided and covers the whole of the Western Front in Flanders, from the North Sea to main battlefields of Passchendaele, Ypres and Messines.

The Great War in Flanders 1914-1918 Battle Map
£18.95 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 4 weeks

These marvellous little hardback guides come from le cool, an online magazine dedicated to being a weekly cultural agenda and alternative city guide. Guidebooks are not usually this way: these are personal selections from the best of each city (choose from London, Barcelona, Lisbon and Amsterdam), filled with secrets.

London - A Weird and Wonderful Guide
£15.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

A “Which? Holiday” magazine subscription offers six issues at a 17% saving, as well as free holiday legal advice. This subscription comes as a gift box with step-by-step instructions for activating your subscription. A “Which? Holiday” subscription makes the perfect gift for a friend or relative, or why not treat yourself?

Which? Holiday Magazine Subscription (6 issues)
£29.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's map of the world. For instance, where you would normally expect to see the Sahara indicated, this atlas gives you "Sea of Sand", Arab. es-sahra "desert, sea of sand". The 'True Names' of 1500 cities, countries, rivers, oceans and mountain ranges are displayed on this fascinating map includes a comprehensive index of derivations.

Atlas of True Names: World
£4.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Russia Road Atlas from Moscow-based AST Press, in A4 hardback format, with English legend and extensive 75-page index of localities, covering at varying scales Russia and all the ex-Soviet Union countries, plus providing an overview mapping of the whole of Europe. The central part of western Russia is covered at 1:500,000.

Russia Road Atlas
£38.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The A to Z Atlas and Guide to London and Suburbs 1938/9 is a historical reproduction atlas that affords a nostalgic look back to a time now rapidly becoming beyond living memory. This edition of the Geographer’s A to Z is particularly intriguing since it affords a glimpse of London prior to the WWII bombings and the massive redevelopments that were to change the character of whole localities almost beyond recognition.

A to Z Atlas And Guide To London And Suburbs 1938/9
£9.95 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days

Exceptionally detailed, indexed street atlas of Moscow, with plans showing traffic flow across 25 main road junctions, mapping of the environs at 1:130,000, plus listings of various public buildings and facilities. The atlas covers the whole of the Moscow administrative area at three scales. The central part of the city within the inner ring-road and the adjoining districts are covered at 1:6,000.

Moscow Street Atlas
£38.95 Special order: usually dispatched within a variable time frame due to publisher supply.