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Author: John Underwood
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781856912006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Thomas Cook Travel Guide Award, John and Pat Underwood's guide to Madeira makes essential reading, whether you choose to tour the island by car or explore on foot.
Author: Christopher J. Burton
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paddy Dillon
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
Published: 2024-02-14
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1783626607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guidebook to 60 day walks on the Portuguese island of Madeira and neighbouring Porto Santo. Covering mountains, coast, laurisilva cloud forest and levadas (irrigation channels), routes range from easy strolls to more strenuous mountain hikes, some calling for a good head for heights. Walks range from 4 to 27km (2–17 miles) with options to combine routes to create longer days out. Sketch maps are included for each walk Detailed information on planning, facilities and public transport Highlights include an ascent of Pico de Areeiro, Madeira’s highest peak Easy access from Funchal
Author: John Underwood
Publisher: Sunflower
Published: 2010-08
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781856913874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese pocket-sized, full-colour guides, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, are designed for short-break holidays. They describe walks and recommend restaurants/hotels en route. Following each restaurant entry is one or more of their recipes to made in self-catering accommodation or at home.
Author: Gerald Luckhurst
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780711230323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries the island gardens of Madeira were at the crossroads of the world: as a halfway house between the tropics and the old continent, Madeira received plants from far-flung empires and accommodated ideas from both north and south. Its streets and squares are filled with magnificent jacarandas, flame-trees, and rosewoods, while its waterways are covered by trellises of bougainvillea. This book opens with an introduction describing the discovery and development of the island and its earliest gardens, the role of Portuguese aristocrats and British wine merchants in creating the country estates known as quintas, and the extensive travel literature of early tourists. The book then delivers essential background information on how the climate and landscape of Madeira have allowed the island’s unique flora to flourish. The gardens themselves are divided according to type, public or private, historic or modern, and all 24 are in or around the capital, Funchal. A few non-garden areas have been included to introduce the wild flora and landscape of Madeira, certainly of interest to garden lovers.
Author: Jorge Luis P. Oliveira-Costa
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2021-05-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1527569888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of landscapes has become so profound in its approaches that its incursion into society has confronted the scientific community with several ‘views’ that link a broad path across various academic disciplines. This volume offers essential insights into the concepts and applications of some emerging perspectives in this field. Instead of focusing on only organisms or nature in order to better understand the world and its development, this book places humans and physical aspects at the centre of its focus, combining practical and experimental studies on nonhuman model organisms, ecological and geographical information, nature conservation and territorial planning, and the study of humans and society.
Author: Luis Loures
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-09-22
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1839683767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights the diverse nature of the scientific domains associated with landscape architecture. It emphasises the need to acknowledge that the contribution of each research domain is equally important, offering complementary development opportunities while enabling landscapes to fulfill their multiple functions and ecosystem services in an integrated way, underlining the relevance of theory, methods, and practice to promote sustainable landscape planning and design.
Author: Bernie Owen
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789622098473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains, with the aid of many photographs and specially drawn diagrams and maps, how the geological, biological and agricultural processes slowly produced the natural landscape; and how the rapid expansion of the population had a swift impact and major effect on how the land of Hong Kong looks today.
Author: Greg H. Parlier
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3030160351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 59 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.
Author: Gonçalo Vieira
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9783319036427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book brings together contributions from over 35 Portuguese geomorphologists, presenting a thorough overview of the main highlights of the landscape of Portugal's mainland, Azores and Madeira. The book, which is a tribute to Professor António de Brum Ferreira, first President of the Portuguese Association of Geomorphologists and former Professor at the University of Lisbon, who passed away in January 2013, is organized in 3 parts: a) Introduction, which presents a general framework of the physical geography of Portugal, b) Geomorphological landscapes, presenting ca. 30 short papers with regional focus on key geomorphological areas, c) Applied geomorphology, providing an updated vision on the protection of geomorphological heritage with a focus on geoparks, as well as on Geomorphological hazards in Portugal. This first book ever to concentrate on the geomorphology of Portugal will surely become a benchmark for Portuguese geomorphology.
