Naval operations & warfare were, & remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, & their detail & usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed. This beautiful book examines stunning original maps from a series of key conflicts from the Spanish Armada, the American Wars of Independence, & the Napoleonic wars to twentieth century conflicts from the First World War to Vietnam, & explains how they were represented through mapping & how the maps produced helped naval commanders to plan their strategy. ...

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This unique series gets close up to some amazing areas of our world, & allows readers the opportunity to explore key countries, topographical features & cities in a way that is both engaging & entertaining. In addition, each book highlights significant human, geographical, sporting & economic information. ...

William Shakespeare`s lifetime (1564-1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I & the first of the Stuart kings, James I & the changing times & political mores of the time were reflected through his plays. This beautiful new book looks at the England in which Shakespeare worked through maps & illustrations that reveal the way that he & his contemporaries saw their land & their place in the world. It also explores the locations of his plays & looks at the possible inspirations for these & why Shakespeare would have chosen to set his stories there. ...

This unique series gets close up to some amazing areas of our world, & allows readers the opportunity to explore key countries, topographical features & cities in a way that is both engaging & entertaining. In addition, each book highlights significant human, geographical, sporting & economic information. ...

This title features over 120 large-format illustrations present detailed & fascinating wartime cartography. Key battles such as the Somme, Mons, Gallipoli, Jutland & Ypres are given extensive coverage alongside fascinating detail pieces such as airship raids & stations, communication systems, Orders of Battle, railroad routes & battlefield medical stations. The approach also provides a detailed chronological history of the conflict & will appeal to military historians & family historians alike. The Great War was so devastating
- eight million lives were lost globally
- that in its aftermath a horrified world expected it to be the final chapter in armed conflict. Mapping The First World War provides a uniquely different perspective on the `war to end all wars`. An introduction details the causes & progress of the war & is followed by over a hundred maps & charts that show the broad sweep of events, from Germany`s 1914 war goals to the final positions of the troops. There are maps depicting movements & battles as well as related documents, such as those on levels of conscription & numbers of weapons. As in all wars, maps were vital to the military organization of all sides during World War I. Before each military event there was the planning, the reconnaissance, & the conjecture as to enemy positions. After the event there would be debriefing, analysis of success & failure, & a redrawing of maps to show new troop positions & boundaries. All of the maps featured in this book have been drawn from the extensive collection held by the National Archives at Kew in west London. Providing a fascinating & unique insight into the planning & organization of military campaigns, Mapping The First World War is essential for anyone interested in military history.

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Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary & photographs. Published in association & including mapping from the archives of the Imperial War Museums. Over 150 maps demonstrating how the Great War was fought around the world. Types of maps featured: Small scale maps showing country boundaries & occupied territories Large-scale maps covering the key battles & offensives on all fronts of the war Trench maps showing detailed positions of the front line Maps from newspapers, battle planning & propaganda Key offensives covered include: The Battles of the Marne & Ypres Tannenberg & the Eastern Front Verdun & the Somme The Gallipoli Campaign Battle of Jutland The Advances to Jerusalem, Damascus & Baghdad Vimy Ridge & Passchendaele German 1918 offensives & Allied counter-offensives Battle of Jutland Along with the maps, key historical events are described, giving an illustrated history of the war from an expert historian. ...

Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics & mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific documents & works of art. In this beautifully illustrated book, Peter Whitfield reveals some of the ways in which the structure of the universe has been conceived, explained & depicted. With examples ranging from the Stone Age to the Space Age
- ancient observatories, the angelic visions of Dante, images from the Copernican revolution, the rationalized heavens of Isaac Newton, & modern deep space technology
- Whitfield offers a challenging exploration of the tension between rigorous scientific knowledge & the continuing search for cause, certainty & harmony in the universe. This new edition is updated to include a wider range of stunning maps of the skies in full colour, including imagery from the latest voyages of space exploration.

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Illustrating the changing shape of the Americas as Renaissance cartographers (working from ancient & medieval sources) learned more of the New World, this collection is the third in a series produced by Scala, which showcases the core collections of the American Museum in Britain. Dr. Dallas Pratt, an American psychiatrist & collector, donated over 200 exquisitely detailed maps to the American Museum in Britain, until his death in 1994. This gift is acclaimed by map scholars as the finest private holding of pre-1600 printed world maps on this side of the Atlantic. Spurred on by thoughts of treasure
- particularly gold, silver, gems & spices
- European travellers changed the shape of the New World as they mapped the Americas from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Whereas medieval maps illustrated theology rather than geography, the Renaissance revived the classical discipline of scientifically mapping land mass. Such precision was entirely practical: only by exact measurement could the rich New World territories be claimed, plundered & ruled by its Old World conquerors.

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` Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?` `A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!` Charles Drazin knew little about his mother`s father
- only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the west of Ireland where she had grown up, & of her father, whose death changed the life of an eight-year-old girl for ever. Soon afterwards her own death left her son to go through alone the relics of her life. They included a box of old photographs, a battered suitcase stamped with the initials of the grandfather he had never known, & the service records of Patrick`s brothers, who, like him, had all enlisted in the Royal Engineers as the nineteenth century became the twentieth. So began an extraordinary journey of discovery that took him from the age of Queen Victoria to the battlefields of the Western Front. Mapping the Past is the story of five brothers who, mapping the world, lived up to the Royal Engineers` motto of Everywhere. It is the story of Irel&, & of the Empire from which it broke away. It is the story of conflict, war & its aftermath. &, most of all, it is the story of memory, endlessly carrying the past, for better or worse, into our present & future. It is an imaginative, intimate & powerful work of history, by a writer of rare power.
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