Cartography
Spanning the decades from 1934 to 2020, The Going Was Good: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life follows the life of author David Buisseret from his early childhood to his life in retirement. Woven within the text, Buisseret recounts many historical events and trends, not only as a historian, but as someone who experienced the many changes and challenges of the times. Simultaneously, he expounds upon how these events affected his life, both professionally and personally, as well as the lives of his family.
The British Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys, and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples ranging from world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps, curiosities and fake maps have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book. Each map is faithfully reproduced with a description of its creation and use, followed by details showing areas of particular interest. Readers are asked to scrutinize the maps to answer a series of historical and geographical questions, all the while enjoying new perspectives on the world we live in provided by our eclectic and extensive archive.
For more than four decades, 1965-2008, Jossy and Ken Nebenzahl have traveled the world; from the sands of Arabia to the Mogolian outback, Khyber Pass tothe Strait of Hormuz, from Himalaya to Papua New Guinea. Traveling by freighter, camel, dugout canoe, hot air balloon, antique aircraft and by their own rapidly toughening feet.
This book encapsulates their journals and photographs into a memoir that captures the exhilaration of setting off into the wild blue with little more than curiosity and a bedroll.
With colorful maps that capture every continent and region, plus hundreds of illustrations that illuminate how our surroundings shape us, this one-of-a-kind atlas will inspire curious minds of all ages!