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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases > General
A full colour map showing London in about 1520 - its many churches,
monasteries, legal inns, guild halls, and a large number of
substantial private houses, in the context of the streets and
alleyways that survived the Great Fire and can still be discovered.
Dominating the city are the Tower of London in the east, the old St
Paul's Cathedral in the west and London Bridge in the south. The
city was largely contained within its medieval walls and ditches
but shows signs of spilling out into the great metropolis it was
destined to be. This is a second edition of a map first published
in 2018, incorporating changes to the map as new information has
become available. The map has been the Historic Towns Trust's
number one best seller since publication and has been very well
received. The new edition has a revised cover and illustrations.
The most detailed map of the World available which can be folded
and stored in a standard-size notebook. The 6 laminated pages are
spill and rip-proof and include an 11" x 17" map and 4 pages of
country facts. An essential tool for school at any level. Suggested
uses: Students -- a map you can keep handy from elementary school
through college; Professors -- adopt this map for your course as an
inexpensive supplement; Teachers -- a map that can be purchased as
a class set that will last your entire career; Parents -- instill
knowledge and interest in the world, inspire travel, and connect
family history to the places on the map.
Good quality large wall map; ideal for a classroom, bedroom or
office wall Explore the world with this high quality, large,
laminated, rolled map of the World. The Marco Polo World Wall Map
is a perfect reference map covering the whole world. It shows the
political units on each continent, mountain relief and sea depth.
In addition to the beautiful, colourful illustration, it includes:
national flags of each country country names, capital cities and
country codes Supplied in a durable plastic tube, this fascinating,
easy-to-read world wall map looks great on any wall. Ideal as a
poster for a bedroom wall, school classroom or planning your dream
trip. Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm Scale: 1: 35 000 000 | 1cm = 350km |
1inch = 550 miles
Our brand new and up to date whisky map shows over 150 distilleries
on our exceptionally clear road mapping, allowing you to navigate
to your chosen destination. Enlarged inset map of Speyside &
clearly defined production regions allows you to plan your
distilleries tour according to your taste buds! Distilleries are
indexed with addresses and full contact details and clearly defined
as those with and without visitor facilities. The best thing to go
with your dram apart from a splash of water. Foreword by Blair
Bowman, whisky consultant Over 150 whisky distilleries shown with
& without visitor facilities Clearly defined whisky producing
regions Exceptionally clear road mapping with mileage markers Index
to distilleries with full address & contact details Fun facts
& information on the reverse Index to place names
The OS Historical Map series comprises of Ancient Britain and Roman
Britain. Each archaeological period is identified using different
symbols and colours to show sites from the Stone Age through to the
early Middle Ages against a modern map base, double-sided to cover
the whole country. The Ancient Britain map and guide is
complemented by a timeline that shows British events in relation to
wider history. Key sites of significant historical interest are
highlighted using photographs, text and thumbnail mapping from the
OS Landranger map series. Additional information, such as a list of
archaeological terms, suggested reading and museums to visit, is
also included.
Medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic cultures are both
notable for the wealth and diversity of their geographical
literature, yet to date there has been relatively little attempt to
compare medieval Christian and Islamic mapping traditions in a
detailed manner. Cartography between Christian Europe and the
Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of the level of
interaction between the two traditions across a range of map
genres, including world and regional maps, maps of the seven
climes, and celestial cartography. Through a mixture of synthesis
and case study, the volume makes the case for significant but
limited cultural transfer. Contributors are: Elly Dekker;
Jean-Charles Ducene; Alfred Hiatt; Yossef Rapoport; Stefan
Schroeder; Emmanuelle Vagnon.
Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through
the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration,
America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would
come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the
abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics,
tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and
global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of
ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of
bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires.
Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents
opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature,
sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms
and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele,
Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz,
Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen,
Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael
Wintle.
A full colour map, based on a digitised map of the city of
Canterbury in 1907, with its Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval past
overlain and important buildings picked out. Founded as the Roman
town of Durovernum Cantiacorum, Canterbury grew to be more
important than London. Canterbury Cathedral became a major European
centre of pilgrimage following the murder of Archbishop Thomas
Becket in 1170 and the centre of the Anglican church after the
Reformation. Although damaged in the Second World War, its many
surviving medieval buildings make it a major attraction for
visitors and home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The map
shows a small cathedral city in 1907 with large buildings,
surrounded by orchards and a remarkable military presence. The
map's cover has a short introduction to the city's history, and on
the reverse an illustrated and comprehensive gazetteer of
Canterbury's main sites of interest, from the city's Roman theatre
and forum to medieval monasteries, the city's walls and its castle.
Produced with Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Canterbury Christ
Church University.
The contents of the book are of a high quality and flow very
smoothly from the characterization of biophysical resources and
land use systems to the farming systems level and finally culminate
at the catchment/ watershed level. The modelling studies are
included to update the current trends, while vulnerability studies
provide complete set of information with respect to future action
plan. The authors of the various s have also displayed high skills
in development of customized GIS tools of learning and knowledge
sharing. This book, would stand-out as an example of knowledge
sharing efforts in the area of geo-informatics and the use of GIS
technologies for their effective and efficient management of
natural resources. The authors from top institutes like CGIAR,
ICRISAT, University of Tokyo, Japan, National Agriculture and Food
Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan and The Kansas State
University, USA, IIT, IARI, NRSC, NGRI, and reputed Agricultural
Universities and institutes (e.g. NBSS&LUP, CRIDA, CSSRI, NIAM,
IGFRI, NRCAF, NBPGR, CMFRI, IASRI, IIHR etc.) have contributed
knowledge relating to biophysical resource characterization and
quality assessment, agricultural vulnerability to climate change,
rainfall variation, water availability and urbanization, and
development of customized GIS application, knowledge sharing and
learning tools. The comprehensive review in the areas of data
mining, farm level applications, and modeling for retrieval of
biophysical parameters are other specific contributions from the
authors.
Arid and semi-arid areas are now facing a threefold holistic
crisis: economic, food, and climate. What has emerged from these
crises is the vital importance of inter-linkages among them on the
one hand, and the missed opportunities in putting these pieces
together on the other. This book has tried to explore these
challenges though in-depth discussions of the individual. It is
anticipated to inspire a forward looking debate that looks at the
lessons from the past and points to actions for the future.
Expertise views have been shared scientists and persons of eminence
on the national and state level challenges with futuristic remedial
approaches.
The sudden appearance of portolan charts, realistic nautical charts
of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, at the end of the thirteenth
century is one of the most significant occurrences in the history
of cartography. Using geodetic and statistical analysis techniques
these charts are shown to be mosaics of partial charts that are
considerably more accurate than has been assumed. Their accuracy
exceeds medieval mapping capabilities. These sub-charts show a
remarkably good agreement with the Mercator map projection. It is
demonstrated that this map projection can only have been an
intentional feature of the charts' construction. Through geodetic
analysis the author eliminates the possibility that the charts are
original products of a medieval Mediterranean nautical culture,
which until now they have been widely believed to be.
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