Roads shape our society and are shaped by it: they are a slice through history, a slice through landscape, and a slice through life. They are Read More »
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. `Grief Read More »
Topographic survey of France at 1:25,000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Sรฉrie Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus Read More »
Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth century Read More »
Topographic survey of France at 1:25,000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Sรฉrie Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus Read More »
A Train Journey takes readers on an international journey through the history of trains and brings the locomotives to life in pop-up detail. Created by the Read More »
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of Read More »
Angola at 1:1,300,000 on a double-sided indexed map from ITMB with a large, clear street plan of central Luanda. Altitude colouring shows the country’s topography, with Read More »