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Please note: This product is a map. The Stonehenge and Avebury
World Heritage Site is internationally important for its
outstanding prehistoric monuments. Stonehenge is the most
architecturally sophisticated prehistoric stone circle in the
world, while Avebury is the largest. Around them lie numerous other
monuments and sites, which demonstrate over 2,000 years of
continuous use. Together they form a unique prehistoric landscape.
There is no better way to learn about and experience the monuments
than to go out and explore the World Heritage Site on foot. This
map is ideal for walkers and others wishing to explore the
fascinating landscape of the two areas of the World Heritage Site.
The map uses an Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 base and draws upon
information from the English Heritage Archive and recent
archaeological investigations. With Stonehenge on one side and
Avebury on the other, the map shows and describes both visible and
hidden remains, with information about where you can find out more.
The map is divided into two parts on a durable double sided
waterproof sheet.
National Geographic Wall Maps offer a special glimpse into current
and historical events, and they inform about the world and
environment. Offered in a variety of styles and formats, these maps
are excellent reference tools and a perfect addition to any home,
business or school. There are a variety of map options to choose
from, including the world, continents, countries and regions, the
United States, history, nature and space.
Now in a completely revised edition, this bestselling historical atlas has long been established as one of the most clear and comprehensive guides to the evolution of ancient cultures. In a chronological series of maps and accompanying text it traces the movements of races in Europe, the Mediterranean area and the Near East from 50,000 BC to the fourth century AD, including Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Indians, Greeks, Celts and Romans among many other peoples. This is a companion volume to The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815) and The New Penguin Atlas of Recent History.
This publication studies the potential impact of climate change on
Sri Lanka's vulnerable mountain ecosystem to help guide sustainable
adaptation strategies. It uses a mix of geographic information
system mapping combined with average and projected rainfall figures
to show how the area could be affected. Including a series of maps,
the publication illustrates how the mountain region faces rising
drought alongside increasingly severe monsoons that could cause
more floods and landslides. It aims to help assess both future
investments and strategies to cut disaster risk and enhance
environmental sustainability in the bio-diverse mountain area.
The names on Svalbard are a reminder of how many different
nationalities that have visited and lived on the archipelago during
the centuries. These names are artefacts that succinctly represent
Svalbards unique position in terms of economic and political
history.
'Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map
makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many
peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island,
creating an historical dynamic whose dispersed voices are now heard
in almost every major city of the globe, in accents unmistakably
from Cork or Connemara, Donegal or Dublin. This atlas attempts to
explain in a visual, accessible way Ireland's unfolding story, and
how this small country's remarkable worldwide impact has come
about.'
From the Foreword
The bestselling Atlas of Irish History tells the story of the
Irish past in graphic cartography, beautifully rendered and
augmented by an authoritative text. It is an essential reference
tool for any student of Irish history.
This new edition covers recent momentous events such as the
transformative boom and bust of the Republic's economy and the
extraordinary course of developments in Northern Ireland that
resulted in the power-sharing administration of the DUP and Sinn
Fein
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under
the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area
for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a
previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as
one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth
century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field
notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians
Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey
to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining,
engaging narrative of the team's experiences, contextualized with a
thoughtful introduction and conclusion. Accompanied by the great
photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden's team quickly found
their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers
describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in
rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water.
Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of
prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery-Hispanic
villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and
other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was
glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped
a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant
dispossession from their homeland. Hayden saw his expedition as a
scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description,
cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for
economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this
book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold
beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic
opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey
ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways,
solidifying the idea of "progress"-and government funding of its
pursuit-while also revealing, via Jackson's photographs, a
landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.
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