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| Author: | Guy Browning |
| Publisher: | Random House UK |
| Catalogue number: | 169575 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
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: | P. D. A. Harvey |
| Publisher: | The Public Record Office |
| Catalogue number: | 30148 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within Unknown |
The map as we understand it today - a plan, drawn accurately to a defined scale, constructed by triangulation, and showing features by a range of conventional signs - was effectively an invention of...
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