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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 its use and its creation, as well as highlighting particular points of interest, before posing a series of historical and geographical puzzles. The perfect gift for cartographical enthusiasts, wherever in the world they may be.
Paperback.
240 pages.
Measures 21.6 x 14.3 cm.
£16.99
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...
£14.99
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....
£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...
£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...
