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The new National Geographic Benchmark Recreation Atlases are an ideal recreation resource complete with accurate, detailed topographic maps. They contain a wealth of robust travel information, including campground locations, state park maps, sports and activity destinations, museums, hunting and fishing information, historic sites and even climate details. Every feature is clearly labelled, field-checked and verified, and everything is organised for convenience and intuitive ease-of-use. The books feature a double laminated cover to prevent wear and tear.

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The National Geographic Classic Europe Wall Map is perfect for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the many countries of Europe. The continent is laid out in bright, easy-to-read colours and fonts, with rich detail with hundreds of place names and borders drawn with utmost accuracy. Enlarged size. Scale: 1:5,419,000. Laminated. 117 x 91.4 cm.

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CityDestinationMaps blend urban guidebook information with easy to read street maps, complete with 3D buildings. The maps are printed on waterproof, tear-resistant material that's lightweight yet very durable. Double-sided with beautiful photos and detailed travel information, In addition to the easy-to-read map on the front, the back of this Boston map includes: Regional map; Subway map (The T'); Airport diagram; Points of interest; Information on transportation, museums, guided tours, and more; Multi-language legend.'

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Whether travelling for business or leisure, let National Geographic's Florida Guide Map lead you on your visit to the Sunshine State. Coverage is unparalleled with one large road map encompassing the entire state and several detailed city and metropolitan area inset maps, including Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Orlando, Tallahassee, Fort Myers-Cape Coral, Gainesville, Melbourne-Kennedy Space Centre, Dayton Beach, Pensacola, Panama City and Key West. Pinpointed are hundreds points of interest, national and state recreation lands, campgrounds, visitor centres, airports and hospitals.

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AdventureMaps provide global travellers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective, highlighting hundreds of points of interest and the diverse and unique destinations within the country. Each map is printed on durable synthetic paper, making them waterproof and tear-resistant. They also include the locations of cities and towns with a user-friendly index, plus a clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for major highways, main roads and tracks and trails for those seeking to explore more remote regions.

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This Trails Illustrated topographic map is the most comprehensive recreational map for Acadia National Park, located along the beautiful Atlantic coast in Maine. Updated to reflect road closings, new trails, and campground relocation; it also includes detailed trail information, points of interest, trailheads, picnic areas, facilities, and more. Features sites such as Mount Desert Island, Sestern Mountain, Norwood Ridge, Freeman Ridge, Isle au Haut, Marshall Island, Swans Island, Western Bay, Mount Desert Narrows, Frenchman Bay, Eastern Way, Echo Lake, and more.

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The Kansas Recreation Map is the first map product to show the real richness of recreation potential in The Sunflower State. One side provides a full state map that features Public Lands, extensive highway detail, point-to-point mileages, recreation attractions, campgrounds, parks & wildlife areas, boating & fishing access points, and public hunting areas. The reverse side features categorized recreation listings with helpful descriptions, current contact information, and map grid references.

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The fun-filled quiz book that kids and the whole family will enjoy Have fun with family and friends with this book of brain-teasing riddles that will have everyone scratching their heads! I’m the world’s fastest land animal. I can’t climb trees. What am I? My eyes are bright, my chest is red, you might see me perched on your garden shed! What am I? My fur is black and white. I spray my enemies with a very smelly liquid. What am I? Packed with rhyming riddles, laugh out loud jokes, tricky teasers and tons of colourful photos they are sure to keep animal fans of all ages entertained!

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Fact-packed topic books for primary school children Brave soldiers, important battles, life on the Home Front! It’s time to learn everything about the Second World War. Packed with facts, pictures and maps it’s ideal for homework, topic work, KS2 school projects and anyone who is simply curious about history. · colourful photography and illustration· hundreds of interesting facts· maps, diagrams, interactive glossary, and more!

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This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed night sky guide will encourage kids to stop and look up to spot stars and planets right from their own gardens. From Mars to meteor showers, the Big Dipper to satellites, kids will learn how, where, and when to spot space phenomena in the night sky at any time of the year in this field guide. With tons of info, it's the perfect companion for the garden, day trips, camping or holidays. Durable and portable, it's just right for pocket or backpack.

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A fact-packed fun book of sea themed puzzles. Test your knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of under the sea themed puzzles. Sharks, whales, clown fish, starfish, dolphins and more – all the ocean favourites are here! Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as number games, crosswords and word searches, in varying levels of difficulty with fascinating facts along the way.

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Packed with facts and tantalising anecdotes from experts and bursting with colour photographs, learn all about Ancient Egypt in this fresh take on the subject. It’s time to learn everything about Ancient Egypt! Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures, an explorer’s corner with from-the-field anecdotes and tips, fun facts throughout, maps and infographics, an illustrated diagram, a photo gallery, cool comparisons, a behind-the-scenes photograph, an interactive glossary, and more.

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Packed with facts and tantalising anecdotes from experts and bursting with colour photographs, learn all about insects in this fresh take on the subject that kids with love. It’s time to learn everything about insects! Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures, an explorer’s corner with from-the-field anecdotes and tips, fun facts throughout, maps and infographics, an illustrated diagram, a photo gallery, cool comparisons, a behind-the-scenes photograph, an interactive glossary, and more.

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Packed with facts and tantalising anecdotes from experts and bursting with colour photographs, learn all about space in this fresh take on the subject that kids with love. It’s time to learn everything about space! Each book in the National Geographic Kids Everything series has more than 100 pictures, an explorer’s corner with from-the-field anecdotes and tips, fun facts throughout, maps and infographics, an illustrated diagram, a photo gallery, cool comparisons, a behind-the-scenes photograph, an interactive glossary, and more.

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A fact-packed fun book of world travel themed puzzles. Test your knowledge and get thinking with this fact-packed National Geographic Kids fun book of world travel themed puzzles. Inside are brain-tickling quizzes as well as number games, crosswords and word searches, with fascinating facts along the way.

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This fun, photo-filled, and fact-packed guide to birds in Britain and Ireland will make kids look and listen to find the feathered friends right in their own gardens.

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The world is a different place after dark, and this magnificent photography book illuminates the mesmerizing realm of all things nocturnal. After dark, the light is different; there is an unspoken intimacy; new and different activities occur and in the natural world, an unseen universe comes alive. Page after page of vivid photos explore the many nuances of night vision--from the sea by moonlight to night markets in Laos to the face of a child lit up by a screen in a darkened room. The range of images is breathtaking: A smoky jazz club. Flowers that bloom only at night. Phosphorescent fish. Lions photographed with infrared cameras. TheEiffel Tower, all lit up. Faces around a campfire. A stadium lit by floodlights. Earth from space. Elegant, sexy, and a little mysterious, this richly illustrated book is a stunning pathway to some of the world's most captivating sights.

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Waterproof, Tear-Resistant Topographic Map. The Wonderland Trail encircles Mount Rainier and was completed in 1915 by volunteers and designated a National Recreation Trail in 1981. The Wonderland Trail is known for its undulating terrain with a striking cumulative 22,000 feet of elevation gains and losses. The Topographic Map Guide is arranged for clockwise travel around the Wonderland Trail starting at the Sunrise trailhead. Each map page has a detailed trail profile that shows the elevation changes you will encounter. Also, the Wonderland Trail is highlighted and centered on each page so you can easily track your progress. The Topographic Map Guide also includes information about Mt Rainier National Park as well as wilderness regulations and other important facts and tips to help make your journey on this amazing trail both successful and memorable. More convenient and easier to use than folded maps, but just as compact and lightweight, National Geographic s Topographic Map Guideboo

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Waterproof, Tear-Resistant Topographic Map. The Colorado Trail, Collegiate Loop Topographic Map Guide has been designed as the perfect traveling companion when navigating the Collegiate Loop section of The Colorado Trail. In 2012, the 83-mile Collegiate West route was added to The Colorado Trail as an alternate route to the Collegiate East section, creating the approximately 163-mile Collegiate Loop. The Collegiate Loop Topographic Map Guide starts at the top end of the loop near Twin Lakes Reservoir. The trail tracks south along the eastern slope of Sawatch Range under the watchful gaze of several 14ers (fourteen-thousand foot peaks) until it joins the Continental Divide Trail near Monarch. The trail then turns north along the west side of the Sawatch Range as it crisscrosses the continental divide until finally finishing the loop back at Twin Lakes Reservoir. Each page is centered on the trail and overlaps with adjacent pages so there is little chance of getting lost. Along the bot

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Queenstown, New Zealand considers itself ?The Adventure Capital of the World?. Why? People go there to jump from high places, drive extremely fast boats and walk into the mountains and fly back. Why is Queensland such a popular place for adventure? What would you do there?

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National Geographic Traveler: Iceland is the lighthouse to follow if you do not want to miss anything of the unique and incredible atmosphere, from the northern lights to the capital, Reykjavík, which comes to life in the long summer nights of the Arctic Circle. Enjoy the fishing ports of the southern peninsula; admire the volcanoes, glaciers, and waterfalls of the south; explore the mysterious eastern lands; be fascinated by the rich wild nature up north; or venture among the spectacular bird-populated cliffs and glaciers of the Westfjords.

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National Geographic Traveler: Alaska is the travel partner you need to organize a visit to the boundless uncontaminated spaces of “the Great Land” of Alaska, the largest American state, where nature dominates with the highest number of mountains, glaciers, and pristine wildlife in the world. You can travel around Alaska in many ways, but more than half of visitors choose cruises to begin their adventure among glaciers, wildlife, and national parks, especially along the southern coasts in the panhandle, where it’s possible to travel through the legendary Inside Passage. Travelers can reach remote places on the mainland, the islands, and the mainland coast from Ketchikan to Skagway, as well as Vancouver or Seattle, from various landing ports. Visitors can rent cars, vans, and campers or use the Alaska Railroad to explore the immense hinterland or reach Denali National Park and Preserve, where caribou, wolves, moose, white bighorn sheep, and the iconic grizzly bear roam. Admire the unique scenery of the majestic Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, home to numerous glaciers overlooking the sea, on an unforgettable cruise or local ferry during the summer.

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Called "the jewel of the Adriatic Sea," Croatia's medieval cities, turquoise waters, and rugged mountains make this small Mediterranean county big on adventure! National Geographic's Croatia Adventure Map will meet the needs of Croatia's travelers with its durability and detailed, accurate information. The map includes the locations of exotic places to discover including Trogir, Dubrovnik, and Mostar, with a user-friendly index, clearly marked road network complete with distances and designations for roads/highways, plus secondary routes for those seeking to explore off the beaten path. Start your adventure in one of Croatia's premier national parks; the waterfalls of Plitvice, the forests of Krka and Mljet, or the mountain caverns of Paklenica. Visit the two most beautiful rivers in Europe, the Zrmanja and Krupa, or kayak your way to one of the Elafiti islands in the Adriatic Sea. Along the way you'll see Diocletian's palace in Split, Biokovo Mountain, and shared borders regions with Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzogovina. Adventure Maps differ from a traditional road map because of the specialty content they include. Each map contains hundreds of diverse and unique recreational, ecological, cultural, and historic destinations - outside of the major tourist hubs. National Geographic Adventure Maps are the perfect companion to a guidebook, yet far easier to pack! The Croatia Adventure Map is printed in the United States on a durable synthetic paper, making it waterproof, tear-resistant, and capable of withstanding the rigors of international travel. The map is two-sided and is folded to a packable size of 235 x 108 mm; unfolded size is 965 x 660 mm. Travel Tip! Due to the synthetic sheet that Adventure Maps are printed on, you can easily fold the map to a discreet size, showing just the area you're interested in.

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