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Lonely Planet's Hindi, Urdu and Bengali Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask directions in Delhi, haggle like a local at street bazaars and chat with locals; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation! 

• Publisert: November 2024
• Utgave: 6. utgave
• Antall sider: 304
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781787013490

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Pakistan on a light, waterproof and tear-resistant, indexed map with topographic and tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale and a convenient size sheet.

Topography is shown by altitude colouring with spot heights, mountain passes and names of mountain ranges, deserts, etc. Seasonal rivers and lakes, swamps, salt pans are also marked. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the provinces.

Road network includes local roads, indicating driving distances on main routes and most secondary roads. Railways and local airfields and ports are also shown. Symbols mark locations of various places of interest, including UNESCO world heritage sites, archaeological remains, national parks and other protected areas, etc. The map has a grid with latitude and longitude at intervals of 1º and an extensive index of localities with a separate list of national parks and reserves. Map legend includes English.

Publisert år: 2019
Innbinding: falset
Material: plastpapir
Målestokk: 1:1300000

Empires have collided here, cultures have clashed. Buddhist India claimed it from the south, Islam put down roots in its western approaches, Mongols and Manchus rode in from the north, and, from the east, China continues to absorb what it prefers not to call Tibet. Hunters have decimated its wildlife and mountaineers have bagged its peaks.

Today, machinery gouges minerals out of its rock. Roughly the size of Europe, the region is one of the most seismically active on the planet. Summers bring avalanches, rainfall triggers landslides and winters obliterate trails.

Glaciers retreat, rivers change course and whole lakes quietly evaporate. To some, Himalaya is an otherworldly realm, profoundly life-changing, yet forbidding and forbidden. It has mesmerised scholars and mystics, sportsmen and spies, pilgrims and mapmakers who have mingled with the farmers and traders on the Roof of the World.

Himalaya is the story of one of the last great wildernesses and, in particular, of the bizarre discoveries and improbable achievements of its pioneers. Ranging from botany to trade, from the Great Game to todays geopolitics, John Keay draws on a lifetime of exploration and study to enlighten and delight with this lively biography of a region in crisis.

• Forfatter: John Keay
• Publisert: Okt. 2023
• Antall sider: 432
• ISBN: 9781408891162

Seeds of Terror will reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn billions of pounds every year off the opium trade. With the breakneck pace of a thriller, author Gretchen Peters traces their illicit activities from the vast poppy fields of southern Afghanistan to heroin labs run by Taliban commanders, from drug convoys armed with Stinger missiles to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai. Based on hundreds of interviews with Taliban fighters, smugglers, and law enforcement and intelligence agents, Peters makes the case that we must cut terrorists off from their drug earnings if we ever hope to beat them.

Forfattere: Gretchen Peters
Publisert måned: Des
Publisert år: 2011
Utgave: 1.utg
Sider nr: 300