The Pennine Way, the longest footpath in Britain, runs from the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, across the Scottish Border. As the first Long Distance Footpath to be completed it is already well established in the public eye. In 1965, a survey on four days in the summer holiday period showed that half of those passing some 15 checkpoints were on walks lasting more than ten days, and that nearly …
The publisher is proud to present a revised reprint of one of the stalwarts in the field of literature about Japan.
To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
It is worth getting to know Ger. many. Not only is she one of the countries in the heart of Europe people like to visit, but she is at the same time a modern State and one of the world's great industrial countries. In Germany the Old joins up with the New, the past with the present. Two thousand years have left their mark on this country and her people.
De aardrijkskunde van België is als het ware een samenvatting of een miniatuur van die van West-Europa. Klein en dicht bevolkt, verdeeld tussen een Latijnse gemeenschap en een Germaanse gemeenschap, biedt deze smalle strook, vrijwel loodrecht op de kust van de Noordzee, een assortiment van diverse streken op de zee ver- overd land, een stuk van de grote Noordeuropese laagvlakte, met graangewas…
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institu- tions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the…
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institutions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the k…