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Curious Walks Around London

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

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Curious Walks Around London

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

A comprehensive, informative and highly entertaining walking guide to the well-known and less well-known, areas of London.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445627736

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9781445627731

Curiosities of London

Historical Walks Around the Capital

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

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Curiosities of London

Historical Walks Around the Capital

By: David Brandon,Alan Brooke

An informative and entertaining walking guide, encountering the oddities, curiosities and unknown history of some of London's most well-known and less-visited areas.

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233

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144564844X

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9781445648446

The Phantom Atlas

The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

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The Phantom Atlas

The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas

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Chronicle Books

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145216844X

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9781452168449

The Golden Atlas

The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

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The Golden Atlas

The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

Stunning...divine' Stephen Fry ‘A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous’ John Lloyd, creator of QI ‘Perfect for the armchair adventurer historian, this is a rich visual exploration of some of the most beautiful charts ever created’ National Geographic 'Introduces us to a whole different way of looking at maps. Great illustrations, most engaging - the author is just a mine of information' Simon Mayo's Books of the Year The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created. The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author's collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo's journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders. Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts. The Golden Atlas takes you back to a world of darkness and peril, placing you on storm-lashed ships, frozen wastelands and the shores of hostile territories to see how the lines were drawn to form the shape of the modern world. The author's previous book, The Phantom Atlas, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller, described by Jonathan Ross as 'a spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' and this new book is sure to follow suit.

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459

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Simon and Schuster

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147116683X

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9781471166839

Bob The Builder Play

Can We Find It?

By: Brooke Hessel,Publications International Ltd. Staff

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Bob The Builder Play

Can We Find It?

By: Brooke Hessel,Publications International Ltd. Staff

Each picture on the soundboard represents a different sound.

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0785366407

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Curious Walks Around London

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Curiosities of London

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