Adventures in Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245451,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
June 2024
224 pp., 22,4x17,0 cm, 75 colour illus.
224 pp., 22,4x17,0 cm, 75 colour illus.
A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys.
"Adventures in Maps" features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, and space. Some chart the route a traveler...
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£25.00
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Tyranny of the Straight Line
Mapping Modern Paris
ISBN: HB: 9780300267648,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space.
Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their ric...
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£50.00
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Born of Ice and Fire
How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300242591,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity.
More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" tha...
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£20.00
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Atlas of Geographical Curiosities
ISBN: HB: 9782361955304,
Jonglez Publishing,
October 2022
160 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, colour illus.
160 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, colour illus.
Not for sale in Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia!
A country that does not really exist, an island which is Spanish for six months of the year and French for the other six, a hotel room whose bedroom is in France and whose bathroom is in S...
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£19.95
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Blind Maps and Blue Dots
The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information
ISBN: PB: 9783037786581,
Lars Muller Publishers,
February 2021
192 pp., 30,0x22,0 cm, 47 illus.
192 pp., 30,0x22,0 cm, 47 illus.
The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have...
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£30.00
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Map of the World
The World According to Illustrators and Storytellers
For sale in Balkans only!
Maps help us understand and navigate the world. In our age of satellite navigation systems and Google Maps, personal interpretations of the geography around us are becoming even more relevant. "A Map of the World" is a com...
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£35.00
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Islamic Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851244928,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
October 2019
192 pp., 28,0x23,7 cm, 60 colour illus.
192 pp., 28,0x23,7 cm, 60 colour illus.
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. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and...
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£35.00
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Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781851245239,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
August 2019
144 pp., 19,6x19,6 cm, 80 colour illus.
144 pp., 19,6x19,6 cm, 80 colour illus.
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by...
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£12.00
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Why North is Up
Map Conventions and Where They Came From
ISBN: HB: 9781851245192,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
August 2019
224 pp., 22,8x17,6 cm, 108 colour illus.
224 pp., 22,8x17,6 cm, 108 colour illus.
Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to underst...
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£20.00
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Talking Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245154,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
July 2019
224 pp., 27,0x27,0 cm, 100 colour illus.
224 pp., 27,0x27,0 cm, 100 colour illus.
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by wri...
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£35.00
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