Search Results for ‘World’, ‘Photographic/Illustrated Books’ - 44 matches found

Ultimate Adventures - A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel

Packed with ideas, inspiration and expert advice, Ultimate Adventures - A Rough Guide to Adventure Travel - is the complete guide to the best outdoor experiences on earth from this popular publisher...

100 Animals to See Before They Die

A must for anyone passionate about wildlife and its conservation.
"100 Animals to See Before They Die" offers a snapshot of the world’s most endangered mammal species. Based on the unique rankings of...

100 Days in Photographs - Pivotal Events That Changed the World

Much more than a book of pictures, 100 days in photographs is an intriguing visual journey through modern history- an odyssey that’s personal and universal, immediate and timeless. To create it, Getty...

Cities of the World: A History in Maps

Peter Whitfield's Cities of the World is a fascinating and original look at the world's greatest cities, as he traces their historic form and special character through the city maps and panoramic views...

Design for Impact

An illuminating history of the development of the airline safety card, this book illustrates the evolution of the practical design ideas created for an industry where communicating as clearly and effectively...

Meetings with Mountains: Remarkable face-to-face encounters with the world's peaks

Stephen Venables, the acclaimed mountaineer and first Briton to scale Everest without oxygen, brings together climbers, walkers, historians and journalists to provide accounts of some of the most fantastic...

Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents

The mountains have always been very special regions - the scenes of myths and the seats of the gods, spaces to retreat to and strategic bulwarks, but also places of natural and cultural diversity and...

Spirit of The Wild (Gift Edition)

Now available from Thames and Hudson in a compact gift edition, Steve Bloom’s Spirit of the Wild features breathtaking photographs of wildlife from around the world. Bloom’s expert photography, brilliantly...

The Earth as Art - Views From Heaven

Has anybody seen the Earth depicted so harmoniously, so poetically?
At first glance, Klaus D Francke’s aerial photographs are so perfect as to appear painted, regardless of whether they depict the unique...

The National Geographic Society

A richly illustrated volume covering the contibutions made by the NGS to geographical exploration an education from 1888 to 1998.

The Seventy Great Journeys in History

The stories of Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong are just some of the great explorers whose stories are told here alongside hundreds of evocative...

To The Ends of the Earth

A magnificent celebration of 175 years of the Royal Geographical Society, from the early expeditions of Livingstone and Stanley in Africa, Younghusband in Tibet and Freya Stark in the Middle East, to...

Women Travelers - A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950

Inspiring stories of a century of pioneering women, with essays by Alexandra Lapierre, the bestselling novelist of “Artemesia”.
An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women...

A Pocketful of Houses

A Pocketful of Houses features more than 60 great houses from around the world, including Europe and the UK, North America, Australia and South America.
This book's pocket-size makes it an excellent...

First Ascent

“First Ascent” is a new history of mountaineering from one of the most distinguished living climbers, Stephen Venables. This richly illustrated book offers a chance to understand the development of...

Metro

In Metro, writer and engineer David Bennett gives a comprehensive insight into the rise of underground travel over the past 150 years.
He traces the technological progress - from the risky breakthroughs...

Metro Maps Of The World

Metro Maps of the World, published by Capital Transport, is a unique concept bringing together transport maps and diagrams from urban areas around the world. Millions of people use them on a daily basis...

Saving Planet Earth

This book accompanies the major BBC1 TV series of the same name - Saving Planet Earth - and brings together the animals and people from the show with the facts and figures of how the human race is changing...

The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical and Curious Maps

This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-Rom and are ready to use for professional...

The Blue Planet - A Natural History of the Oceans

Stunning book to accompany the BBC series of the same name. The team responsible travelled to all of the different ocean habitats in the world in order to provide the first complete and comprehensive...