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The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £10.99£7.77A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The... -
Maps of London and Beyond by Adam Dant
RRP: £30.00£21.95A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant's fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London's past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and... -
An Historical Map of Oxford: From Medieval to Victorian Times (New Edition) by Alan Crossley 9780993469893
RRP: £9.99£7.06A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of Oxford in 1876, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. Oxford is synonymous with its university but deserves to be known as a city in its own right as well. What... -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
RRP: £20.00£13.34An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully... -
An Historical Map of Canterbury from medieval times to 1907 by Jake Weekes
RRP: £9.99£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993469886Author Jake WeekesPage Count 2Imprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience by Mary Biddulph
RRP: £29.99£27.04Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School has become the widely recommended textbook for student and new teachers of geography. It helps you acquire a deeper understanding of the role, purpose and potential of geography within the secondary... -
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain by Philip Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.77Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past. Engrossing' INDEPENDENT___________What is... -
Africa: A Beginner's Guide by Tom Young 9781851687534
RRP: £9.99£7.55Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history... -
Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 by Katrina Navickas 9781526116703
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers' rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a provocative narrative of the closing down of public space and dispossession from place. It offers historical... -
Hull (West) 1890: Yorkshire Sheet 240.02 by Susan Neave 9781847844958
£3.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844958Author Susan NeaveImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Countries of the World in Minutes by Jacob F. Field
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Countries of the World in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the modern world and every country in it.For each of the 195 officially recognised countries of the world, a mini-essay clearly and concisely explains its key history,... -
Ring of Stone Circles: Exploring Neolithic Cumbria by Stan L Abbott
RRP: £9.99£6.80To paraphrase L.P. Hartley, "The past is a different country." Stan L Abbott sets out to explore the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles. Cumbria boasts more of these monuments than any other English... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
RRP: £12.99£7.12Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Places by Jacob F. Field
RRP: £12.99£8.73Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania,... -
Shorelines: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland by Robert Devoy
£89.09The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work... -
Around Stockton & Norton by Paul Menzies 9780752457314
RRP: £12.99£9.62This superb selection of 200 photographs provides a nostalgic insight into the changing face of the neighbouring communities of Stockton and Norton on Tees over the last century. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past to life... -
The Railway Atlas of Scotland: Two Hundred Years of History in Maps by David Spaven
RRP: £35.00£25.23The rich diversity of Scotland's railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 181 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country's railways from the early nineteenth century to the present... -
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural... -
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray
RRP: £35.00£29.57A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"-the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have... -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: £24.95£23.39The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our Worldvolume 4 by Tim Marshall
RRP: £18.99£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982178635Author Marshall TFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
An Historical Map of Swansea & Mumbles: medieval town to Copperopolis by Matthew Stevens
RRP: £10.99£7.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838071929Author Matthew StevensPage Count 2Imprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh 9781513136226
RRP: £11.99£8.00After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
RRP: £30.00£20.76Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: £30.00£24.29"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities... -
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508
RRP: £25.00£19.99What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... -
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World by Meredith Francesca Small 9781639364190
RRP: £22.00£14.05The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece-the Venetian mappa mundi-that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is... -
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl 9780226519623
RRP: £17.00£14.62In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor... -
Geography in Bite-sized Chunks by Will Williams 9781789295917
RRP: £7.99£5.60Have you forgotten all you ever learned about the essentials of climate and weather? Barely remember what a tectonic plate is and what it does? In this book you’ll find the answers to these questions and many more – broken down into fascinating... -
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library by Tom Harper 9780712353328 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£3.64From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas... -
Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library by Tom Harper 9780712353328
RRP: £18.99£4.25From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas... -
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: £22.99£22.43Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
An Historical Map of York: From Medieval Times to 1850 by Peter Addyman 9780993469848
RRP: £9.99£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993469848Author Peter AddymanPage Count 2Imprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Visitors' Historic Britain: Northumberland: Romans to Victorians by Craig Armstrong 9781526702784
RRP: £12.99£9.09Northumberland to the Romans it was Ad Fines, the limit of the Empire, the end of the Roman World. It was here in 122 AD that the Emperor Hadrian decided to build a wall stretching from coast-to-coast to provide protection, to show the might of the... -
Small Island: 12 Maps That Explain The History of Britain by Philip Parker 9780241368268
RRP: £25.00£17.62Discover the 12 crucial moments in Britain's past that will answer the greatest questions for our future in this richly insightful and fascinating history'A richly entertaining canter through the country's past. Engrossing' INDEPENDENT___________In 878... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
RRP: £13.99£12.25Across Russia's easternmost shores and through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how, over 150 years, people turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power. Beginning in the... -
The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins 9781800249523 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£6.99A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track described the author's theory of...