Category Archives: Maps
My Year of Meats
In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little has landed a job producing Japanese docu-soap My American Wife! But as she researches the consumption of meat in the American home, she begins to realize that her ruthless search for a story is deeply compromising her morals.
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He`s expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He`s not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. So begins a story
The China Factory
An elderly school teacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever. A young gardener has an unsettling encounter with a suburban housewife. A teenage girl strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lonely bachelor. In these twelve haunting stories award-winning writer Mary Costello examines the passions and perils of everyday
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
Japan, 1936. An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead- in a room locked from the inside. His diaries reveal alchemy, astrology and a complicated plan to kill all seven women. Shortly afterwards, the plan is carried out: the women are found dismembered and buried across rural Japan. By 1979, these
How to Live Japanese
From Miyazaki to mountains, sake to sparking joy, find your Zen and make time to learn about how to live Japanese. Whether it`s the cutting edge of film-making, revolutionizing the whisky market or competing with parents on lunchboxes, you`ll be all the better for some time spent with How to Live Japanese. With nearly 60
Beauty is a Wound
A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author `A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie` New York Review of Books `A howling masterpiece` Chigoze Obioma, author of The Fisherman One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful
Globalography: Our Interconnected World revealed in 50 Maps
50 stunning maps reveal our globalized world like never before. Explore how cities are expanding beyond the reach of their nations, uncover the ways bananas, cobalt and water bottles link the most unlikely of places, and discover how modern phenomena such as messenger apps and sharing platforms are changing not just our interactions, but how
Underground Cities: Mapping the Tunnels, Transits and Networks of Our Cities
With over 60 per cent of the world`s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds As They Were And As They Are Today
Winner of the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Travel Book of the YearMaps offer us a chance to see not just how our world looks today, but how it once looked. But what about the places that are no longer mapped?Cities forgotten under the dust of newly settled land? Rivers and
An Uncommon Atlas: 50 new views of our physical, cultural and political world
A unique and beautiful collection of fifty maps in which our physical, political and cultural world is visualised, measured and mapped like never before. An Uncommon Atlas is the new 2019 edition, previously published as New Views. From charting energy networks to revealing new and emerging lands, measuring human migration to assessing the planet’s ant
Isabella Bird: A Photographic Memoir of Travels in China 1894-1896
This is a lavish pictorial record produced in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). It features 200 unique photographs taken by Isabella Bird that transport the reader to the China of the late 19th century. It includes supporting text by travel photography expert Debbie Ireland. Ammonite Press is proud to collaborate with the
Shifting Sands: The Unravelling of the Old Order in the Middle East
At a time when the Middle East dominates media headlines more than ever – and for reasons that become ever more heartbreaking – Shifting Sands brings together fifteen impassioned and informed voices to talk about a region with unlimited potential, and yet which can feel, as one writer puts it, `as though the world around
The Silent Cry
In Oe`s masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student
India: Superfast, Primetime, Ultimate Nation
India dreams of a glorious future: to be a great power with global influence. And that may soon be within its reach – it has a young, dynamic and increasingly skilled population, a large and fast-growing economy and, as a democracy, its rise is welcomed by the West. But, as Adam Roberts shows here, India
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle`s album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn`t have known then what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future occupation of his home in Palestine. Later, as a young
Giro d`Italia: The Story of the World`s Most Beautiful Bike Race
The story of the Giro d`Italia – Italy`s equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many – is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals, tradition under threat from modernity all play out against a timeless landscape. The
The Medal Factory
43 Olympic medals. 6 Tour de France victories. Countless world records and world championship victories. Since the year 2000, British Cycling, Team Sky and INEOS have dominated the sport of cycling to an unprecedented degree. But at what cost? Did Sir David Brailsford, Peter Keen and the other brains behind British Cycling`s massive and sudden
The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China
China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world`s population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world`s newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors,
The Complete Book of the Tour De France
The Tour de France is the gretest public sporting spectacle on earth. For 100 editions – every year since 1903, except during the Great Wars – competitors have battled over thousands of miles of French countryside in pursuit of the coveted yellow jersey. The Complete Book of the Tour de France brings together every statistical
