(Hardback)
By: Dominique Lanni
ISBN: 9780764365942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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A keepsake collection of maps depicting legendary and real places for lovers of literature, history, and cartography!
(Hardback)
By: Bruno Fuligni
ISBN: 9780764365935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
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A most unusual and fascinating atlas of extraterrestrial encountersa map to the places where portals open up between our world and theirs!
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Eric Pawson
ISBN: 9781877578526
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Otago University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9780712355018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library 100 Maps series. This new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of today.
(Paperback)
By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9780141034935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery. This title recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world.
(Paperback)
By: Johannes Krause
ISBN: 9780753554951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Mike Duggan
ISBN: 9781789148367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A unique approach to maps, exploring how they have shaped society and culture.
(Paperback)
By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9781851245239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book is a treasure-trove of cartographical delights spanning over a thousand years. Each map is accompanied by a narrative revealing the story behind how it came to be made and the significance of what it shows. The chronological arrangement highlights how cartography has evolved over the centuries.
(Hardback)
By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9780241556870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Yossef Rapoport
ISBN: 9781851244928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book provides a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780241967874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. This is a guide to literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather.
(Paperback)
By: Mariame Kaba
ISBN: 9781642599015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Barber
ISBN: 9780712358798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2012
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation.
(Paperback)
By: Bill Bunbury
ISBN: 9781760801410
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: John McCrystal
ISBN: 9781760633592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
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Beautifully illustrated with a selection of fascinating maps, Singing the Trail is the story of New Zealand through its maps - and the story of the explorers who made those maps.
(Paperback)
By: Philip Parker
ISBN: 9780241368275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jerry Brotton
ISBN: 9781851245154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Drawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, 'Talking Maps' takes a new approach to map-making by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately entwined.
(Hardback)
By: Oliver Smith
ISBN: 9781784726928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Parker
ISBN: 9780711268050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.
(Paperback)
By: Alice Albinia
ISBN: 9781846149115
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Leo Africanus
ISBN: 9780241543931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
ISBN: 9781471166822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, stunningly illustrated throughout with some of the most beautiful maps ever created
(Paperback)
By: Simon Lewis
ISBN: 9780241280881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Jack Cornish
ISBN: 9781405951289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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