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Book SynopsisFrom the Ghostbusters HQ in New York to Nemo’s fish tank in Sydney, from the Phantom of the Opera’s Parisian lair to scenes from Grand Theft Auto in LA, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world. Locations from film, TV, books, computer games and comics are ingeniously plotted on a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.Feauturing 14 of the world’s greatest cities, the maps show exactly where your favourite characters lived, loved, worked and played, and where iconic scenes took place. The locations have been painstakingly tracked down, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors, and an extensive index helps you find them all. Within the pages of this book, you'll discover:• Where in London super-spies James Bond and George Smiley are neighbours.• The route of the exciting San Francisco car chase in Bullitt.• The Tokyo homes of all the magical girls from the classic Sailor Moon anime.And many more fascinating locations drawn from the world’s imagination.Accompanying the maps are illuminating essays that explain how the authors came to their decisions, along with explorations of the key locations and fun timelines of imaginary events. Find out how to get to Sesame Street, where to join Starfleet and thousands of other places besides, in this indispensable guidebook to all those places you always wanted to visit – if only they were real. Trade Review‘Oh what fun! … allows access to a creative world and is overflowing with information and beautifully drawn maps.’ LoveReading‘Brimful of intriguing curiosities … the maps are a thing of beauty’ Perceptive Travel

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Book SynopsisXinjiang, named in 1759 by Emperor Qianlong (乾隆 1711-1799) of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China, was ruled by the Qing from the final phase of the Dzungar-Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was conquered, and lasted until the fall of the imperial dynasty in 1912. Based on rare ancient maps and historical archives, the book tells stories of Xinjiang during the Qing. It involves Emperor Qianlong, Fragrant concubine (xiangfei 香妃, Uyghur concubine married with Emperor Qianlong), Lady Catherine (the wife of the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century, and lived in Xinjiang for nearly two decades), Swedish missionaries (persisted in spreading Christianity for 38 years among Uyghurs who believed in Islam), Guan Gong temples (the belief in Lord Guan, a religious tradition of the Han and Manchus) and so on.Table of ContentsPreface Part One Old Maps and the Imperial Rule 1.Emperor Qianlong, the Jesuit missionaries, and land surveying 2.The legend of the Emperor's "fragrant concubine" from the western territories 3.The tumultuous journey of the Map of Hami Part Two Old Maps and Scholars 1.Zhang Mu, Maps of the Western Territories, and a forum of frontier scholars 2.The Manchurian Pilgrimage to the West: Qi Shiyi and his Sights and Sounds of the West 3.Not just a tale of the Han Dynasty: Li Guangting and the Visual Appraisal of the Western Territories 4.The Insouciant Disciple, the "Gengxu year", unscrupulous merchants and the Complete Atlas of Xinjiang Part Three Early Cartography and the West 1.An ever-changing exotic realm: Kashgar through the eyes of Lady Catherine 2.The story of Chini-Bagh and its proprietor 3. The story behind a simple book tag: Arthur W. Hummel and the Library of Congress' Complete Atlas of Xinjiang Part Four Old Maps and Folk Beliefs 1.The martyr Huang Guifang and the "Fang deity" temples of Xinjiang 2."Guardian of Xinjiang": the "Guan Gong temples" of Xinjiang 3.Reaping what one not sows: the Swedish missionaries of Kashgar Part Five Old Maps and Ethnicities 1.The warriors of Xinjiang: garrison soldiers of the Eight Banner Army on the western frontier 2.The western migration of the Xibe people: protecting the western frontier for the sake of the emperor 3.The Torghut tribe's return to the east: a Mongolian cavalry's migration from the Volga River to the Kaidu River Part Six Old Maps and Geography 1.A visual representation of Xinjiang's major cities 2.A tale of twin cities: the new and old settlements of Aksu 3.A desolate ancient path winding through the western Tianshan ranges: the Illustrated Account of the Expedition along Nalin River from Ili to Kashgar 4. Immortalizing the Qing Empire's achievements: the stone tablet on the Complete Atlas of Xinjiang

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Book SynopsisAlso featured is part of a rare 1833 map showing the first "street" to be cut through the Manor of Aston - named Villa Street after the imposing landmark Georgian Villa - Aston Villa - located on the junction of Heathfield Road and Lozells Road. Another feature shows the arrival of the Wesleyans and the building of their chapel in 1865, in 1872 young fellows of the chapel form a cricket team. Keen enough on their cricket in the Summer months, they establish Aston Villa Football Club in 1874 to play the new game of Association Football so they could be together in the Winter months. Aston Villa's earliest games were played on the then famous "sports meadow", part of the great leisure complex opened in 1872 and featured on the work. Also featured is the "Wellington Road ground", Perry Barr, the first football home of Aston Villa, from where they played between 1876 and 1897. In 1888 Aston Villa director William McGregor became the founding father of the Football League, with Aston Villa being one of the twelve founder clubs. One year later in 1889, back down at the Aston Lower Grounds, the famous sports meadow has been lost to housing. Dovehouse Pool is drained and in its place the owners of the leisure complex build a cycle track with a central sports ground. In 1897 Aston Villa leave Wellington Road, Perry Barr, and move to the Aston Lower Grounds, the sports ground gradually became known as "Villa Park" To the top left and right are rare images of match action from Villa Park, to the centre of these images is the first picture captured from a 1901 "home" game against arch rivals Small Heath, later to be named Birmingham City. The heading to the top of the work quotes "By the turn of the 20th century Aston Villa - the greatest name in football in every sense - had become of the most powerful sides in the country - They had secured the league title 5 times since the start of the league in 1888, and won the F.A Cup 3 times". The heading at the bottom of the work quotes " The City of Birmingham with sinewy arms and sooty face, was forging its name in brass and iron as the workshop of the World, when one Winters night in 1874 a few young men stroked their whiskers and bestowed on a new born football club a name unique in sporting history".

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Book SynopsisThe volume is co-published by the Winchester Excavations Committee and forms Volume 11 of the Winchester Studies series.Following the success of volumes IV (Windsor and Eton) and V (York) in the series of Historic Towns Atlases, the new volume maps and explains the history of Winchester face=Calibri>– a city which has played such an important part in English history from Roman times onwards.Combining many full-colour maps with an authoritative but very readable text, the atlas shows how the Roman city of Venta Belgarum became the second-most important city in England for several centuries: a walled town, the seat of kings and an ecclesiastical centre almost unparalleled in the country, before gently declining into a judicial centre and county town.The Atlas is centred on a detailed map of the city at the scale of 1:2500, showing Winchester's historic buildings and structures on a map of the city as it was in 1800. A series of maps show how Winchester was at key points in its history, charting its development and changing shape. The Atlas includes an early OS map, modern maps and historic aerial photographs, as well as colour illustrations, many of which have never been published before.The introduction offers a full history of how and why Winchester developed from prehistoric times onwards, in a series of chapters written by historians but aimed at the general reader. It also includes a comprehensive reference gazetteer listing every place shown on the maps, with a map location, a brief history, and further reading for those interested in finding out more.Like its companion volumes, the maps, text, gazetteer and illustrations are presented in an A3 stiff card binder, and the format allows for maps of different date to be compared side-by-side.Trade ReviewThe maps and illustrations are fortified by nine brilliant essays. But to me the most valuable part of the Atlas, apart from the maps, is the gazeteer. * Oxford Recorder *

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Book SynopsisRenaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable ‘pictorial map’ of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird’s eye view of Galway city at this time and presents insights into the cultural, sociopolitical and religious outlook of the local ruling elite — the so-called ‘tribes’ of Galway. Originally intended as a wall hanging, it was produced to impress and remains a centrepiece of Galway’s visual history. Only two copies of the original printed map are known to exist and it is the well-preserved version from Trinity College, Dublin that is reproduced in Renaissance Galway. Following the format of previous map-guides from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, the book presents carefully selected extracts from the pictorial map, each accompanied by a commentary. These range from descriptions of particular buildings or areas, to aspects of everyday life that are revealed in the map. In an introductory essay, the author ponders the many mysteries that continue to surround the pictorial map of Galway — its origins, compilers and purpose. Together the map extracts and accompanying texts offer a new perspective — a window into the culture and mindset of Galway’s mid-seventeenth century ruling Catholic elite. The modern viewer is invited to inhabit the world of ‘Renaissance Galway’. The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is a research project of the Royal Irish Academy and is part of a wider European scheme. www.ihta.ieTrade Review'Paul Walsh has selected 38 sections of the map, blown them up, and accompanied each with a wonderfully informative explanatory essay, and in doing so has presented us with a remarkable visual tour of the urban landscape of the period and also various coats of arms, allegorical images, and aspects of everyday life. [...] very highly recommended'. https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/110522/balls-bridge-1685 -- Tom Kenny * Balls Bridge, 1685 *'38 chapters, or exciting avenues of extra knowledge, backed up by amazing large illustrations from sections of the map, insert even more life into this amazing piece of urban cartography. The amount of research undertaken by the author is immense'. -- Peadar O'Dowd * Putting Galway's past and future heritage on the map *'It is a remarkable and wonderful piece of work... There is much to savour here'. -- Joe Culley * Book Worm *

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Book SynopsisIona is one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish Hebrides, and full of historical associations. It was here that St Columba came by boat in 563 from Ireland, bringing Christianity to Scotland and establishing a monastery that became one of the beacons of culture during the Dark Ages.This view is taken from a vintage poster produced by London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) to promote train and sea services to Iona in Scotland. The artwork is by Tom Gilfillan, who studied at Glasgow School of Art and was well known for his paintings of the Highlands of Scotland during the 1930s, '40s and '50s.1000 piece jigsaw.

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Book SynopsisI asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life.' So said Mirza Ghalib, poet in the court of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. This special two-book slipcase set on Delhi's Shahjahanabad, famous for its imperial aura and history, as well as spiritual ambience, is a journey through the majestic Red Fort and the lanes of the living, planned and walled Mughal city on the banks of River Yamuna. Delhi 360: A Unique Panorama in The British Library Collection. Made in 1846, the painting commonly known as The Delhi Panorama' by the famous topographical artist Mazhar Ali Khan is the finest artistic rendering of Shahjahanabad ever made. It also affords a unique glimpse into the heart of the imperial palace in the Red Fort before much of it was destroyed after the 1857 Uprising. The 360 view of Delhi along with its extraordinary detailing of the cityscape makes the panorama not just an important historical document but also the masterpiece of its artist. The 5-metre long panorama, in the collection of the British Library since 1981, along with all the Persian and Urdu inscriptions has never before been published complete. Its publication here is accompanied by essays that put the panorama in its historical and artistic context with a commentary on the inscriptions that brings it to life. Shahjahanabad Delhi's Shahjahanabad was first founded as an empire's capital at the glorious height of the Mughal dynasty; from this vantage point, it was also witness to the empire's decline and eventual extinction. The city would transform profoundly in the aftermath of the Revolt of 1857, with many of its neighbourhoods and buildings obliterated, and many of its inhabitants, including the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, having left, never to return. Fortunately, a mapmaker, working in 1846, painstakingly depicted important buildings, streets, and landmarks, providing a wealth of information about the city as it had evolved up to that time.

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Book SynopsisNo single human invention has changed the nature of war more that the development of the aeroplane. The History of Air Warfare is a highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of aerial warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western Front in World War I to today’s hi-tech netcentric aerial battlespace. Developing from unpowered observation hot air balloons in the 18th century and even the older kite, aerial warfare has become a multibillion-dollar industry and has led to many advances in technology and techniques such as aerodynamics, propulsion, radar and use of composites and engineered materials such as carbon fibre. Featuring more than 120 complex computer-generated battle maps and graphics, the History of Air Warfare explores every major air battle to have taken place in the world’s skies, as well as documenting the air element of campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Desert Storm. Extensively researched text tells the history and the stories behind these battles concisely and clearly.Table of ContentsIntroduction Early Air Forces: 1914–18 Airships: 1914–18 Fighters: 1914–18 Bombers: 1914–18 Aircraft on the Western Front Aircraft Losses: 1918 Upheaval in Europe: 1920 The Inter-War Years Empire of the Air Birth of the Luftwaffe Spanish Civil War: 1936–39 Japanese War in China: 1937–41 Clippers: Long-Range Transport: 1934–39 European Air Forces Blitzkrieg: Poland 1939 Scandinavia: Finland 1939–40 Scandinavia: Denmark and Norway 1940 Invasion of the West: 1940 The Battle of Britain: July–September 1940 Bombing: Britain and Germany: 1940–41 Maritime Air Patrol: 1940–41 The Mediterranean: 1940–42 The Balkans: The Fall of Crete Barbarossa: June 1941 Pearl Harbor: December 1941 Fall of Southeast Asia: 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea: 1942 The Battle of Midway:1942 The Caucasus and Southern Russia: 1942 Stalingrad: 1942–43 Guadalcanal: 1943 Operation Cartwheel Bombing Germany: 1942–44 Attacks on Berlin: 1944 North Africa and the Mediterranean: 1942–43 Sicily and Southern Italy The Eastern Front: March 1943 Ukraine and The Crimea Carriers in The Pacific Battle of the Philippine Sea: June 1944 The Island-Hopping Campaign Closing the Gap: Patrolling The Atlantic D-Day: The Assault D-Day: The Aftermath Market Garden and Varsity: 1944–45 Southeast-Asia: 1944–45 China: 1941–45 Operation Bagration Special Operations: 1941–45 The End of the Reich Bombing the Home Islands: 1945 Nuclear War Berlin Airlift Korea: 1950–53 The Cold War: 1950–89 The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962 South-East Asia: 1959–75 Indochina and Vietnam Arab-Israeli Wars Air-to-Air Tactics The Falklands War: April–June 1982 The Gulf War: 1991 Afghanistan: 2006 Index

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Book SynopsisThe landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago. Where we walk today was once a polar desert, a river delta or a shallow sea. The end of the last ice age marked the beginning of a new geological period - the Holocene, the relatively warm geological epoch in which we are still living today. The Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands contains special maps, supplemented by archaeological and historical information. These maps show the geographical situation for thirteen different points in time since the last ice age, based on tens of thousands of drill samples and the latest geological, soil and archaeological research. This magnificent atlas also paints a surprising picture of the position we humans have occupied in the landscape. It addresses such questions as: How did we take advantage of the opportunities offered by the landscape? And how did we mould the landscape to suit our own purposes? The Atlas of the Holocene Netherlands will change once and for all the way you look at the Dutch landscape.Trade Review"The Holocene history of the Netherlands is a learning site for coastal sedimentary landscapes all over the world. The international community is indebted to this team of experts that shared their deep understanding of landscape evolution. Learning the lessons from this atlas may prevent future catastrophes. It is the main reason why this book deserves very wide distribution."- Henry Hooghiemstra, Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, 41.1 (2021)Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Netherlands in the Holocene 2 What came before? 3 Rising sea levels 4 Tides and waves shape the coast 5 The big rivers fill the delta 6 Peat covers the land 7 Human intervention 8 How the maps were compiled 9 Notes on the map legends The maps 9000 BCE Rising temperatures 5500 BCE Rising water levels 3850 BCE Expanding peat 2750 BCE The coastline closes 1500 BCE Peat covers the land 500 BCE The building of terps 250 BCE Changing tidal systems CE 100 Human impact CE 800 Return of the sea CE 1250 Dyking of rivers and salt marshes CE 1500 People shape the landscape CE 1850 Human 'nature' CE 2000 A country created by people Glossary Further reading Acknowledgements

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