Gifts For Map Lovers

Gain some perspective on the sizes of countries with this black and white infographic poster shows all the 197 countries of the World laid out methodically in land area size order from largest to smallest. Each country is named in English and the local language.

Mapominoes Europe, the game that takes you to the edge of the world!This portable, educational, geography game, makes a great present for any family member interested in geography or travel.

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements... but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

Transit Maps of the World is the first, comprehensive collection of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colourful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs. Transit Maps could not be more relevant to our modern existence. It uncovers the way many of us are able live and work day to day. It is an i...

The British Cartographic Society WINNER The BCS Award 2015 WINNER The Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping 2015 WINNER John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2015 In London: The Information Capital, geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti join forces to bring you a series of new maps and graphics charting life in London like never before. When do police helicopters catc...

Who Knows Where? is a global location guessing game in which opponents race to be the first player to travel around the world by locating famous places on the double sided world map board.

London suffered a great deal of bomb damage between 1939-1945, the impact of which is still evident in its urban and social landscapes. As a key record of the attack, the London County Council Bomb Damage Maps represent destruction on a huge scale, recording buildings and streets reduced to smoke and rubble. The full set of maps is made up of 110 hand-coloured 1:2500. Ordnance Survey base sheets ori...

World Scratch Map® is a basic wall map of the world, covered in a scratch-off gold foil top layer, designed for you to scratch off places as and when you’ve visited them. As you travel make the world appear beneath your finger-tips. Countries are revealed in full-colour and with geographic detail such as capital and major cities and principal lakes and rivers.

Map Addict by Mike Parker succeeds where many other books on cartography have failed, showing that the centuries old art of map making is not just for the confines of dusty library shelves, but is a contemporary and vibrant part of everyday life.

A stunningly illustrated book revealing the greatest myths, lies and blunders on maps. "Highly recommended" Andrew Marr 'The Phantom Atlas' is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as...

Exclusive to Stanfords. Our fabulous all-purpose cotton bag in Teal or Red is perfect for books, general shopping and everyday use. Features strong webbed handles and premium 10oz cotton making this bag tough and durable. Features internal side pocket.

Print on Demand map from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive. The Stanford’s General Map of the World Map is from a fascinating series of reproductions from our Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive. This map from 1920 reflects the changes in political boundaries and the new world order in the aftermath of World War I. The colouring and annotations to place names n...

Where is Moldova is a brilliant board game the whole family can play. Two to four people or teams of all ages and ability can compete. Combining strategy, luck and knowledge, players can gain countries and win the game.

Described by Robert Macfarlane as “utterly exquisite”, the Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands is subtitled “Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will”.

The Vintage World Map Glasses Hard Case with lined interior and cleaning cloth to protect your glasses, featuring an extract of a political map of the world design, with countries in different colours, parallels and meridians, tropics and equator lines.

This deluxe version of the World Scratch Map® has a gold layer surrounding the land that you can scratch off to reveal all the countries you have visited.

Ever dreamed of travelling to sunnier climes while getting ready for work? With the World Map Shower Curtain, you can plan your next holiday before you're ready to leave the house!

A street map of London in a jigsaw format: Extra Goods introduces the pleasure of learning a city by play with a new series of magnetic puzzles reproducing the worlds major cites.

Mount Everest on a visually stunning map published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, with its reverse side showing the summit area enlarged and overprinted with various ascent routes, plus a history of first ascents by different routes between 1953 and 1990.

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age.