Books about maps

The strange but true story of one of the greatest map thieves in history, and an exploration into the shadowy and alluring world of maps.

This is a guide to the geography of Tolkien's Middle-earth. The atlas contains over a hundred two-colour maps accompanied by notes and detailed references to Tolkien's books The Silmarillion , The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings . The maps cover all aspects of topography.

Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles. This title tells his story.

Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination. Over 100 inventive maps from artists, graphic designers and illustrators, ranging from book covers to tapestries, from advertisements to personal accounts, giving a breathtaking view of the world, both real and imaginary.

A completely revised edition of this popular, small format atlas in the world's most prestigous and authoritive world atlas range.

A full-colour fold-out map (A1 size) detailing the streets of the Discworld's most important city, Ankh-Morpork. It includes all the landmarks of the novels, including the Unseen University, the Shades and the Mended Drum.

This work traces the adventures, discoveries and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planets of our solar system.

Provides physical maps as well as thematic maps covering such aspects as population, food, minerals, climate, and energy.

With two additional chapters, this illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches how to evaluate maps critically, and promotes a healthy scepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. It shows that despite their immense value, maps do, and in fact need to, lie.

By the author of The Streets of Ankh-Morpork and The Discworld Companion . This pack contains a detailed map, in colour, of the Discworld, plus a booklet with lots of wacky facts and figures.

Part of the Penguin Atlas of World History series, which covers events from the French Revolution onwards, this second volume includes events ranging from the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.

Written by Brian Sibley, this slipcase features Tolkien's maps of The Hobbit , Beleriand and Middle-earth. The maps, presented with individual books and wallets show Tolkien's mythical lands in detail - they are also bound with fewer folds, making them suitable for portfolios or framing.

This is a revised edition of The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History .

Based on detailed descriptions given in the text and on the maps that appear in The Lord of the Rings , as well as Tolkien's own paintings and drawings of the landscape and features of Middle-earth, this text clearly shows Frodo's route, together with the paths taken by principal characters.

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new foreword by astronaut Neil Armstrong.