£20.00
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. Hardback,...
£3.95
This brilliant notebook is also a passport to our satellite, with maps and a detailed passport information page. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover.Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
£12.99
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...
£14.99
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...
£5.99
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...
£5.99
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 form, and over 400 different authors including Angela Carter, Agatha...
£14.99
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...
£10.00
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...
£15.95
Map out your rainy-day adventures with this vintage map inspired design. Available in adult and child sizes. WARNING, not suitable for children under 3. Adults umbrella - metal frame and wooden handle; measures 98cm long, diameter 100cm. Children's umbrella - metal frame, plastic handle; measures 58cm...
£14.99
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...
£30.00
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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"A new Geological Map of England and Wales, with the Inland Navigations, exhibiting The Districts of Coal, 1820"The title of this first geological survey of the area (by William Smith, Engineer) reminds us of one of the reasons why the Earth Sciences have always been...
£2.75
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...
£16.99
A wonderful piece of wall art as well as a functional, and genuinely fascinating map of the constellations. Printed on high quality paper, with a beautiful matt finish contrasting with spot laminated design features, Star Map looks great in the daytime. However, it's in darkness...
£8.95
The accidental beauty of the key colours, and the vivid evocation of the forces which made these islands, make this a wonderful print to hang in the home. This is the classic 1969 1:1584000 map, reprinted by the British Geological Survey in 2014, covering the...
£14.99
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...
£12.95
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...
£8.95
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...
£8.95
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...
£12.00
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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Visit the world's wildest places with Royal Geographical Society writer Chris Fitch who takes us on a journey through diverse kingdoms, some remote and unspoilt, some inhospitable wilderness, and some unexplored and largely unknown. We encounter nature's diversity and abundance in remote jungles, incredible natural...
£20.00
Search continents with Damien Rudd who journeys in search of the world’s most joyless and dispiriting place names and their fascinating etymologies. From Disappointment Island in the Southern Ocean, Misery in Germany, Lonely Island in Russia, to the Australian Mount Hopeless this book is a...
£45.00
This ancient map of London makes a gorgeous silk scarf. Pure silk chiffon.Hand rolled hems.Dimensions: 180cm x 55cm.
£17.99
In The Map as Art, Katherine Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists — such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz — and many less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle...
£12.00
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...
£45.00
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...
£26.00
Author Adam Dant is an internationally exhibited artist and a creative cartographer, known for his psycho-histories of art institutions and other work which combines social psychology, geography, and art. In this striking, beautiful, and witty book, he explores 28 cities around the world, bringing together...
