1,500円 Discover the World's Best-Kept Secrets: Remote and Hidden Destinations – Your Ultimate Guide to Unexplored Travel Gems! Are you tired of crowded tourist hotspots and cookie-cutter vacations? Do you dream of venturing off the beaten path to uncover the world's most breathtaking, untouched destinat...

3,715円 A new edition of this fascinating and unusual journey through the world of maps and mapmakers, drawing on 700 years' worth of maps from the National Archives. A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time - fascinating for what they tell us about the ...

7,123円 This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of all time. Immerse yourself in ancient Chinese star charts, decipher medieval Mappae Mundi, and marvel at intricate surveys of the ocean floor and the lunar surface. Discover how Polyn...

8,457円 This is the first thorough, authoritative study of the place-names of the entire pre-1974 Flintshire, scholarly in substance, readable in presentation, with its selection of names based on the OS Landranger 1:50,000 map. The entry for each of the 800 names presents a grid reference, documentary a...

3,524円 This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to th...

6,343円 The Anthropocene is an authoritative desk-top reference work for students of geography, the environment and sustainability. Through a series of 101 interconnected questions and answers spanning ten thematic sections, the book provides a comprehensive survey of humankind's impact on the global env...

1,464円 The Place-Names of Wales was originally published in 1998 and reissued in 2005 in the Pocket Guide series. This current updated publication adds some thirty entries, which importantly take into consideration more recent research. The entry for each place-name provides details of historical forms ...

1,890円 Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales is the first comprehensive, illustrated guide to the religious houses of Wales from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. It offers a thorough introduction to the history of the monastic orders in Wales (the Benedictines, Cluniacs, Augustinians, Premonstratensi...

4,227円 Place-Names of Carmarthenshire is the first publication to investigate all major place-names in the historic county of Carmarthen (1536-1974), including the westerly parts of the county transferred to modern Pembrokeshire after 1996. Tracing the history of Welsh place-names casts light upon the w...

3,550円 Think Africa is one big jungle with Wi-Fi problems and lions in the backyard? Think again. This book is your hilarious, eye-opening passport to all 54 African countriesーyes, fifty-four, not "somewhere near Wakanda." With bite-sized country profiles, surprising facts, and cheeky myth-busting, thi...

3,562円 Which countries were under a dictatorship? Where did the Beatles perform live outside the UK? Where were atomic bombs tested? Which nations boycotted the 1966 World Cup? What was the route of the Hippy Trail? The 1960s was a momentous decade whose legacy is colourful and enduring. Here is a book ...

1,320円 “If you are just interested in the history behind the 1914 battles you cannot go wrong with getting this book, even if you never plan on visiting. The incredible amount of maps and pictures of the area alone will help you to understand the fighting that raged here.” – A Wargamers Needful Things T...