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Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in the Year 1813 was first published in 1823. It is a romantic and descriptive narrative of the journey to find a path across the Blue Mountains and received a great reception both in England and in Australia.

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A neuroscientist illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual

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The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

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(Hardback, Revised edition)

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography which builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in Western Australia. They never arrived. Somewher

(Hardback)

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making Here is an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidden techniques of map-making through the centuries.

(Hardback)

A saunter through Paris with Balzac: an introduction to the first capital of the modern world

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See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.

(Hardback, 7th Revised edition)

Fully revised and updated for 2021, this curriculum-supportive world atlas is the perfect tool for students aged 14-16 years (Key Stage 4, GCSE 9-1).

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All 195 countries illustrated and explained in an instant

(Hardback)

A richly illustrated overview of forest formations worldwide, fascinating in their diversity. Organised according to climatic zones, with detailed information, images, and maps.

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(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library's complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering full justice to this luxurious Baroque wonder.

(Paperback, Revised and Expanded ed.)

First edition published in 1983 as Animals of the estuary shore.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Takes us on an exhilarating journey through three centuries of travel, in the company of such women voyagers as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, Isabella Bird and Rebecca West. Also looks at women from around the globe who visited the West. Their portraits hang at London's National Portrait Gallery.

(Paperback, Main)

A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald.

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Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the worlds largest body of water, and in matters economic, political and military the ocean of the future.

(Hardback)

Due to the dominance of Captain Cook's Pacific exploration, many voyages of science and exploration following him to the Pacific have not received the attention they deserved. This title aims to correct this imbalance through the voyages by William Bligh, Matthew Flinders, La Perouse, Arthur Phillip and George Vancouver.

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Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided

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A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers