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The Golden atlas: the Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries On Maps
[Hardback - 2018]
edward brooke-hitching
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Category: Reference
Sub-category: Atlases
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Uk | ISBN: 9781471166822 | Pages: 256
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Stunning...divine Stephen Fry
A fabulous book, good enough to eat with a spoon! Marvellous John Lloyd, creator of QI
Perfect for the armchair adventurer historian, this is a rich visual exploration of some of the most beautiful charts ever created National Geographic
Introduces us to a whole different way of looking at maps. Great illustrations, most engaging - the author is just a mine of information Simon Mayo s Books of the Year

The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discovery, illustrated with a selection of the most beautiful maps ever created.

The book reveals how the world came to be known, featuring a magnificent gallery of exceptionally rare hand-coloured antique maps, paintings and engravings, many of which can only be found in the author s collection. Arranged chronologically, the reader is taken on a breathtaking expedition through Ancient Babylonian geography and Marco Polo s journey to the Mongol Khan on to buccaneers ransacking the Caribbean and the voyages of seafarers such as Captain Cook and fearless African pathfinders.

Their stories are told in an engaging and compelling style, bringing vividly to life a motley collection of heroic explorers, treasure-hunters and death-dealing villains - all of them accompanied by eye-grabbing illustrations from rare maps, charts and manuscripts.

The Golden Atlas takes you back to a world of darkness and peril, placing you on storm-lashed ships, frozen wastelands and the shores of hostile territories to see how the lines were drawn to form the shape of the modern world. The author s previous book, The Phantom Atlas, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller, described by Jonathan Ross as a spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read and this new book is sure to follow suit.

About the Author

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling trilogy The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018) and The Sky Atlas (2019), as well as The Madman s Library (2020), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in London.

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