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Adventures in Maps Hardcover – July 5 2024
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A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys.
Adventures in Maps features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, and space. Some chart the route a traveler followed, while some are the fruits of exploration, and others were made to help future travelers find their way.
Among these maps are sea charts depicting the sixteenth-century adventures of Richard Hawkins sailing to South America, the surveys of Captain James Cook, and the route followed by pioneering solo yachtswoman Naomi James. On land, we travel North America’s Route 66, follow the archaeological expeditions of David Hogarth along the Euphrates and Aurel Stein on the Silk Road, experience Thomas Cook’s first package tour, and move with pilgrims making their way across Europe. By air and space, we learn the stories of the Arctic explorations needed to enable a Great Circle route by air over Greenland, the first flight from London to Manchester, and the surveys of the Moon that ultimately facilitated the first landing.
These inspirational accounts are drawn from diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues: all illustrated with fascinating, beautiful maps.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Publication dateJuly 5 2024
- Dimensions17.6 x 2.29 x 22.81 cm
- ISBN-101851245456
- ISBN-13978-1851245451
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- Publisher : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (July 5 2024)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1851245456
- ISBN-13 : 978-1851245451
- Item weight : 544 g
- Dimensions : 17.6 x 2.29 x 22.81 cm
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Debbie Hall’s poetry has been published in the San Diego Poetry Annual, Poets Reading the News, Writers Resist, Bird’s Thumb, Gyroscope Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Arlington Literary Journal, Pulse and elsewhere. She is the author of What Light I Have (2018, Main Street Rag Books) and award-winning chapbook, Falling into the River (2020, The Poetry Box). Her first book of poetry for children, In the Jaguar’s House, was released in March 2022 by The Poetry Box. Her photography has been published in The National Humane Review (a 2009 photo contest winner), The San Diego Union Tribune, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine and in other literary journals. Her essays have appeared on NPR (This I Believe series), in USD Magazine, and the San Diego Union Tribune.
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