When does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they challenge established notions of what a map is, how it functions, what its purposes are, and what kind of power it embodies and performs. The publication also shows how terrestrial cartography has shaped the history of lunar mapping since the seventeenth century, through visual and nomenclature conventions, the cultural currency of maps, mapmakers' social standing, and data-gathering and projection practices. It further demonstrates that lunar cartography has also been organized by an internal principle that is born of the fundamental problem of how to create static map spaces capable of representing a referent that is constantly changing to our eyes, as is the visible face of the moon. It is suggested that moon maps may be classed in three broad categories, according to the kinds of solutions for this representational problem that have been devised over the last 400 years.

Our Ultimate 4×4 Trips Collection by Mariëlle Renssen is for all travellers who want to get their 4×4’s onto dirt roads. The book offers 22 fantastic 4×4 routes which have been driven and verified from the author’s own personal experience.

Our Ultimate 4×4 Trips Collection consists of detailed maps and 22 great routes which include accommodation, top sites, tourist resources, a fauna and flora checklist, packing list, geological information, full-colour photographs throughout, best and worst experience per trip, turn-by-turn descriptions of the routes driven, facts on each region, GPS points and a road atlas section of Southern Africa. The Book includes a bonus CD with GPS tracks of each route, and a PDF image of each route map.

Routes covered:

• Addo NP
• Baviaanskloof
• Biedouw Valley
• Blyde River Canyon
• Camdeboo 4×4 Trail
• Camdeboo NP
• Cederberg Central
• Mozambique
• Die Hel
• Drakensberg Passes
• Gannaga
• Hluhluwe-iMfolozi NP
• iSimangaliso St Lucia
• Karoo NP
• Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
• Lesotho-Drakensberg
• Mac Mac
• Forestry 4×4 Trail
• Mapungubwe NP
• Marakele NP
• Meiringspoort
• Mokala NP
• Mountain Zebra NP
• Namakwa Trail
• Namaqua NP
• Northeastern Cape
• North Kruger
• Central Kruger
• Northern Namibia
• Ouberg
• Richtersveld NP
• Sodwana
• Southern Lesotho
• Southern Namibia
• Swatberg
• Tankwa Karoo NP
• Tshugulu 4×4 Trail
• Garub, Skelton Coast and Etosha NP
• Caprivi and Okavango Panhandle

The book will inspire you to travel and make you believe that you are capable of putting together stunning nature tours, without the assistance of a travel agent. You don’t need to be a Rambo to attempt these routes. You will be so bitten by the back-road bug that offers zero cellphone reception or Wi-Fi. You will end up wanting to do more and more. Or if you are an armchair traveller, simply experience these routes through the eyes of the author, to see some of the most amazing places in the world.

This is a brilliant concept map allowing visited destinations to be scratched off revealing the beautifully styled up to date world map underneath. It's the perfect map or gift for the travel enthusiast allowing complete personalisation of the map to display a unique travel story. Simply grab a coin and start scratching off all the destination's you have been lucky enough to visit creating your own personalised continually changing world map. Not only are countries featured on the map, there are also cities shown on the top layer and the world map underneath, allowing for more detailed scratching. Perfect for planning the next holiday when the last one is disappointingly over and the holiday washing is in the machine! Makes a brilliant and unique gift for the traveller in your life. The Scratch World Map is printed onto high quality silk art paper with a gloss coating for luxury and works exactly like a scratch card, once the gold scratch is removed it reveals the mapping underneath.

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable 'pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird's eye view of Galway city at this time and presents insights into the cultural, sociopolitical and religious outlook of the local ruling elite - the so-called 'tribes' of Galway. Originally intended as a wall hanging, it was produced to impress and remains a centrepiece of Galway's visual history. Only two copies of the original printed map are known to exist and it is the well-preserved version from Trinity College, Dublin that is reproduced in Renaissance Galway. Following the format of previous map-guides from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, the book presents carefully selected extracts from the pictorial map, each accompanied by a commentary. These range from descriptions of particular buildings or areas, to aspects of everyday life that are revealed in the map. In an introductory essay, the author ponders the many mysteries that continue to surround the pictorial map of Galway - its origins, compilers and purpose. Together the map extracts and accompanying texts offer a new perspective - a window into the culture and mindset of Galway's mid-seventeenth century ruling Catholic elite. The modern viewer is invited to inhabit the world of 'Renaissance Galway'. The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is a research project of the Royal Irish Academy and is part of a wider European scheme. www.ihta.ie

This folded map (890mm x 1000mm) pictorially illustrates the history of Britain's Railways up to its previous publication date of 1974. Drawn by Laurence Richardson and last published in 1974 by Collins Bartholomew as a fold up map. Now re-digitized and re-published by Mapseeker in association with the Collins Bartholomew Archive, the map covers all of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland with various historical events, progress, iconic steam locomotives, and heritage railways illustrated pictorially in the form of eye catching vignettes. The map is surrounded by the crests of many of the Railway Companies that were founded over time until they were consumed under the Amalgamation of 1923.