New in stock - September 2010

Check out our new titles and editions of maps and guidebooks to hit the shelves of Stanfords recently. From Ho Chi Minh City to Etna and from Moscow public transport to Belgium and Luxembourg raod atlas, we’ve got the latest cartography. And from a kid’s guidebook to Edinburgh to the ever-popular Goats in Trees calendar, people of all ages and humours will be happy this September…

The 2011 edition of the Goats in Trees calendar covers the whole year one goat-covered tree at a time, with a planner page for the last six months of 2010. Everybody knows that goats are very coordinated and can climb and hold their balance in the most precarious places. They are however, also widely known for their ability to climb trees.

Goats in Trees 2011 Calendar
£9.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

A colourful guide book that makes discovering this wonderful city even more enjoyable for the younger members of the family. The guide is divided into seven sections: West Central; East Central; North; South & East; West; Around; and Top Fives. Full of activities, checklists, itineraries, stickers and things to do, the guide contains all the irreverent, interesting and above all fun things for things about Edinburgh – where to brandish a broad sword, feed animals from a train; and tell the time using a pistol...

Edinburgh Unlocked - A Guide Book for Kids
£8.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Moscow Public Transport Map from DMB with tram, trolleybus, bus, rail and metro routes with line numbers and/or stations, covering the city within its outer ringroad, with an enlargement for the inner ring road area. The map is double-sided and covers the city within its outer ring road at 1:30,000, with four insets extending coverage to the more built-up and populated areas outside it.

Moscow Public Transport Map
£7.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Guy Delisle continues with the great tradition of non-fiction comic books looking at difficult subjects in difficult parts of the world, like Joe Sacco’s and Marjane Strapi’s work. Armed with a smuggled radio and a copy of 1984, Delisle could only explore Pyongyang and its countryside while chaperoned by his translator and a guide. But among the propaganda of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, Delisle was able to observe more than was intended of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered.

Pyongyang: Journey in North Korea
£12.99 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days

Mount Etna and the surrounding area, including Catania, Taormina and Giardini Naxos, on a very informative map at 1:60,000 with local footpaths, geology and lava flows with dates, vegetation, fauna, and extensive additional information on the reverse. Produced by SELCA in association with CAI, Club Alpino Italiano, the map is centred on Etna, covering the coast from Taormina to Catania, and bounded in the north by the Alcantara River, and the Simeto in the west.

Mt. Etna and its Environs
£16.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Belgium and Luxembourg Road Atlas at 1:100,000 from De Rouck Geocart in an A4 paperback format, with GPS coordinates. The atlas also provides indexed street plans for 38 towns and a comprehensive distance table. Road network is classified according to the number of lanes and gives driving distances on main and secondary routes. Motorway junctions are named and numbered.

Belgium and Luxembourg Road Atlas
£17.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and East London Road Atlas at 1:500,000 from Map Studio, including the Garden Route, Route 62 and the Karoo, with 25 street plans, GPS waypoints for 120 road junctions, numerous places of interest, etc. The atlas covers most of the Western and the Eastern Cape Provinces, extending beyond East London to Mthatha (Umtata) and north to Middelburg.

Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and East London Road Atlas
£14.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Ho Chi Minh City on an indexed street plan at 1:15,000 from ITMB, a company with strong Vietnamese connections and a number of local cartographers, with on the reverse a road map of the environs at 1:300,000. On one side is an indexed street plan of Ho Chi Minh City, extending north to the city’s international Tan Son Nhat airport.

Ho Chi Minh City and Region
£8.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The Ardennes in Belgium on indexed road map at 1:175,000 from De Rouck Geocart providing convenient coverage of the whole of Wallonia including Brussels plus Luxembourg, with an enlargement for the environs of Luxembourg City. Road network is classified according to the number of lanes and gives driving distances on main and secondary routes.

Ardennes (175K)
£10.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Durmitor National Park and the Tara Canyon on a contoured topographic map at 1:25,000 from the Belgrade based Geokarta, with suggestions for hiking excursions, list of wartime monuments, ancient tombs, etc. The map is double-sided, showing the main part of the national park on one side, with the panhandle of the Tara Canyon on the reverse, presented in two sections.

Durmitor National Park and the Tara Canyon
£9.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours