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This eye-opening and stunningly illustrated book uses maps to show how geography shapes the history of the world - from the way that choices of world leaders are influenced by mountains and rivers, to why geography means that history is always repeating itself. An abridged...
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Puzzle your way around Britain with hundreds of puzzles, conundrums, brainteasers, anagrams, code-breakers and navigational tests. Based on forty regional maps, and with four levels of difficulty so that all the family can play along, this is a celebration of Britain's diversity, history and landscapes....
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Follow in the footsteps of fifty of the world's greatest explorers: discovering hidden routes, exploring geographical details and uncovering remarkable facts as you pit your wits against over a century of legendary exploration. Increasingly difficult puzzles sit alongside profiles of explorers and their expeditions, as...
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Journey through one hundred fascinating maps and atlases from the British Library's extraordinary archives - world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps as well as a variety of curiosities and fake maps. Each map is accompanied by a description of...
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This beautiful coat-pocket map (folding out to a whopping A1) plots 850 songs down to street corner, station or park. An A-bomb in Wardour Street? A nightingale in Berkeley Square? From Putney to Silvertown, from Music Hall to hip-hop and grime, you can pore over...
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A navigable plan of London streets, parks, gardens, prisons, hospitals, courts, squares, rivers, railways, vistas and commutes; as mentioned in well over 600 novels, plays and poems. It features a huge range of genres and forms, and over 400 different authors including Angela Carter, Agatha...
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Some of the world's most famous maps, stretching back to a time when cartography was in its infancy and the 'edge of the world' was a barrier to exploration. The book includes details of how Lewis and Clark helped map the American West, and how...
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Where else would you find Abba rubbing shoulders with Aztec Camera, or Throbbing Gristle with Vera Lynn? From old folk ballads & music hall, through Elgar and Vaughan Williams to the Clash's London and Manic Street Preachers' South Wales; Lianne Hall and Geoff Sawers's Song...
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The sea monsters on early maps are one of their most visually engaging elements, and yet they have never before been carefully studied. These creatures shine light not only on the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also on the history and geography...
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This astonishing miscellany of maps is a treasure trove of curious and interesting facts and a glorious celebration of our beautiful and diverse world. The atlas contains 64 maps and infographics including four fold-out maps and a double-sided removable poster. Maps and subjects include The...
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This card uses an Adapted image from The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain, Sixth Edition, Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1894). The map is on the front and back of the card. The back of the card includes an index of colours. Printed on...
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Are YOU the ultimate map-reader? Do you know trig points from National Trails? Can you calculate using contours? And can you fathom exactly how far the footpath is from the free house? Track down hidden treasures, decipher geographical details and discover amazing facts as you...
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Authors as you've never seen them before! This original hand-lettered poster is exclusive to The Literary Gift Company. The map features a total of 185 geographically connected authors. Click on the picture to have a closer look! Designed by Geoff Sawers. Unframed. Printed on 200 gsm...
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Wales as you've never seen it before! This original hand-lettered poster is exclusive to The Literary Gift Company and features a total of 150 geographically-connected authors. Click on the picture to have a closer look! By Geoff Sawers and Gwyn Tudur Davies.Unframed. Printed on 160...
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Literary Ireland as you've never seen it before! This original hand-lettered poster is exclusive to The Literary Gift Company features a total of 169 geographically connected authors. Click on the picture to have a closer look! Designed by Geoff Sawers.Unframed. Printed on 180 gsm recycled...
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A wondrous writerly tour of children's literature in Britain. This hand-lettered design features 202 writers and is an original creation by The Literary Gift Company. Click on the picture to have a closer look! Compiled by Dani Hall, hand-lettered by Geoff Sawers. Unframed. Printed on...
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These writers have created amazing new worlds, or have re-imagined the world we think we know. In turn we have mapped their landscapes: the towns and regions that created or inspired these writers. We meet Tolkien not in Middle-Earth, but the Midlands, for example, and...
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This book by art historian and cultural theorist Sandra Rendgen explores the life and career of the nineteenth century civil engineer Charles-Joseph Minard. Minard's famous map of Napoleon's 1812 march into Russia, showing the catastrophic losses suffered by the army, is considered to be one of...
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On May 12th 1706 an eclipse passed across Europe from Morocco to Siberia - and Dutch cartographer Johann Homann and astronomer Johann Doppelmayr created Europa Eclipsatae, a groundbreaking map with dotted lines showing the path of the umbra, and a list of the times of...
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A vintage star chart, complete with maps of the northern and southern hemispheres, a moon path map and eclipse diagrams is beautifully reproduced on this jigsaw puzzle. 1,000 piece puzzle 55cm x 70cm Packaged in a 10" tube, with hand sewn muslin bag inside
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Tracking the journey of the ideas of Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy through seven cities and over a thousand years from sixth century Alexandria to the printing presses of Venice, this is a vivid and evocative work of history with a wonderful cast of characters. Paperback,...
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In this accessible and enlightening guide read about the history behind map-making. Learn how cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to understand it – from map orientation, projections, typography and...
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This 500 piece puzzle features a world map populated by the animals that are native to each region. Olivier Latyk's charming artwork combines with a poster - identifying the animals and giving their names in both French and English - to make this a fun...
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From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are plotted in a series of beautiful vintage-looking...
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Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wrong' side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild? Revelatory,...
