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Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present by Benjamin Lieberman
RRP: £22.99£19.16Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how... -
English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography by Richard Dennis 9780521338394
RRP: £30.99£28.28To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical... -
From My Old Stamp Album: Exotic Tales of Lost Countries by Stuart Laycock 9781803993768
RRP: £12.99£9.62Pickup an old stamp album and flick through it. You'll find a host of exotic and unfamiliar names: Cyrenaica, Fernando Poo, Fiume, North Ingria, Obock, Stellaland, Tuva, - distant lands, vanished territories, lost countries. Do they still exist? If not,... -
Deep Time: An Illustrated Exploration of 4.5 Billion Years of Time Through Artefacts, Places and Phenomena by Riley Black
RRP: £25.00£17.98Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us. Through explanations of the latest research and over 200... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey 9781837731060
RRP: £16.99£11.58Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean,... -
Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a by Gilbert Bell 9781847844965
£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844965Author Gilbert BellImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China by Michelle H. Wang 9780226827469
RRP: £44.00£37.21A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods. This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute... -
The Map and the Manuscript: Journeys in the Mysteries of the Two Rennes by Simon M. Miles 9781739734701
£20.98In his debut book, author Simon M. Miles offers an entirely new perspective on one of the most compelling mysteries of our time. He documents an investigation over more than twenty years into the "affair of Rennes", a tangle of puzzles that has... -
The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration by Jo Woolf
RRP: £24.99£18.92Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history. The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories and claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the... -
The Nile: History's Greatest River by Terje Tvedt
RRP: £40.00£30.78"[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman "Has much to offer." The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine "Essential reading." All About History "Valiant, valuable and entertaining... -
The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places by Eric Weiner 9781451691672
RRP: £18.99£11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451691672Author Eric WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by Richard Holmes
RRP: £8.99£6.02NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF... -
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 9780393635164
RRP: £21.99£18.95Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived, the area... -
The Clans and Tartans Map of Scotland (folded): A colourful, illustrated map of clan lands with 150 registered clan tartans, plus information about Highland Dress, the story of tartan, and the clan system. by Waverley Books Waverley Books
RRP: £8.99£6.45A brand new clan map of Scotland with over 150 clans from Waverley Books. And on the back, illustrated in colour: Sir Walter Scott's role in the tartan revival; clan badges, crests, and mottoes; how to wear a belted plaid or "the great kilt"; what a clan... -
Peasants Making History: Living In an English Region 1200-1540 by Christopher Dyer 9780198847212
RRP: £102.50£93.12Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his... -
Trees in England: Management and disease since 1600: 2017 by Tom Williamson
RRP: £33.95£15.71There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara - and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a... -
Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler 9780671888251
£12.17The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon... -
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are by Johannes Krause
RRP: £14.99£12.95Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding... -
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492 by David Watts 9780521386517
RRP: £46.99£42.73This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of... -
Islamic Maps by Yossef Rapoport
RRP: £35.00£30.57Spanning 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... -
Migration and Empire by Marjory Harper 9780198703365
RRP: £35.49£27.25Migration and Empire provides a unique comparison of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants. During the nineteenth century, the proportion of UK migrants heading to empire destinations, especially to Canada, Australia,... -
A Collection of Four Historic Maps of Cheshire by Mapseeker Archive Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Archive Publishing Ltd
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844918485Author Mapseeker Archive Publishing Ltd Mapseeker Archive Publishing LtdFormat PaperbackImprint Mapseeker Archive PublishingPublisher Historical... -
Journey Back in Time Through Maps (New Edition) by Kevin J. Brown 9788854413207
RRP: £30.00£21.80In our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers,... -
The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918: A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue by Roger J. P. Kain 9780521173230
RRP: £59.99£51.24This book offered the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps... -
Leeds (NW) 1889: Yorkshire Sheet 218.01 by Alan Godfrey 9781847844798
£3.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844798Author Alan GodfreyImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Map Hanesyddol o Abertawe a Mwmbwls: tref ganoloesol i Copropolis by Matthew Stevens
RRP: £10.99£7.71A full colour map, based on digitised OS maps of Swansea of about 1919, with its medieval past overlain and important buildings picked out. The map includes an inset map of Mumbles and its medieval castle. In the Middle Ages, Swansea (Abertawe)... -
Deluxe Then and Now Bible Maps 2.0 by Rose Publishing 9781628628593
RRP: £27.99£22.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628628593Author Rose PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 66Imprint Rose PublishingPublisher Rose Publishing -
Geographies of England: The North-South Divide, Material and Imagined by Alan R. H. Baker 9780521822619
RRP: £100.00£77.09To what extent has a North-South divide been a structural feature of England's geography during the last millennium and to what extent has it been especially associated with, and recognized during, particular periods in the past? These are the central... -
Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of American Abundance by Donald Worster
RRP: £15.99£14.87The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This... -
Stockport (East) 1897: Cheshire Sheet 10.16 by Chris Makepeace 9781847843142
RRP: £3.50£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847843142Author Chris MakepeaceImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
A Brief History of Circumnavigators by Derek Wilson 9781841197098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the... -
A Brief History of Circumnavigators by Derek Wilson 9781841197098
£11.42"Going round the world" is an idea that has excited people ever since it was realized that the earth was a sphere. The appeal has something to do with encompassing all the known environment and exploring the unknown, not only on the surface of the... -
Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars by Iain J.M. Robertson
RRP: £49.99£43.50In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. Those who had been away on war... -
Old Hatfield Historic Trail: A Walking trail through Old Hatfield by Mark Bolitho 9781719347259
RRP: £14.73£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781719347259Author Mark BolithoFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Ancient Trees: Living Landscapes by Richard Muir 9780752439266
RRP: £25.00£18.94Over the last 25 years, archaeologists and historians have been increasingly aware of the importance of woodland in the developing British landscape - in particular, how trees have been a vital component of the living cultural landscape. Ancient Trees,... -
Geographies of Developing Areas: The Global South in a Changing World by Glyn Williams
RRP: £79.99£70.00Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and promotes lively debate. Rather than presenting the Global South as a set of... -
The Tithe Maps of England and Wales: A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue by Roger J. P. Kain 9780521188807
RRP: £81.99£69.65The tithe surveys of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales marked a new departure in government-sponsored, cadastral surveying of the nation's land. The 11,800 large-scale, detailed maps which they comprise are recognised as one of the most important... -
Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 Jon Winder 9781914477492
£30.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477492Author Jon WinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 Jon Winder 9781914477485
RRP: £90.00£89.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477485Author Jon WinderFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781452168401
RRP: £35.00£29.55The 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 civilisations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases...