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| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 148361 |
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In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on my childhood in...
| Author: | Guy Browning |
| Publisher: | Random House UK |
| Catalogue number: | 169575 |
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In Maps of My Life, Guy Browing revisits the places and maps that made an impression on his early life. Weaned on maps, educated by maps and ever so slightly in love with maps, he presents a selection...
| Author: | Sarah Hartley |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Catalogue number: | 104097 |
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This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 100130 |
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
For him it is a living organism, with its own laws...
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