"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

How do you impress a king? Here’s one idea—give him a giant book. That’s what the Dutch sugar merchant Johannes Klencke did in 1660, when English King Charles II was restored to the throne (and he ...

ELEVATOR PITCH: Maps can tell you far more than where borders and beaches are located. This book’s illustrations, drawn from Ian Wright’s popular website brilliantmaps.com, use creative cartography to ...

The story behind an atlas and landmark work of graphic design is the focus of a new book about designer Herbert Bayer’s contributions to information design and visual education. Herbert Bayer's World ...

Despite its exotic name, there’s a very good reason you’ve never booked a vacation to the Quilombo of Palmeres. Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. They ...

A hardcover copy of Africa: The Golden Book Picture Atlas of The World, Book 5 by Golden Press. The hardcover book is paperboard bound and laminated. The front cover is two shades of two shades of ...

An extract from the map of Britain and Ireland showing fictional places in the south-east. Update March 2022: Atlas of Imagined Places has won the Edward Stanford Prize for Best Illustrated Travel ...

When Charles II took back the British throne in 1660 after the death of Oliver Cromwell, he received a special gift from Johannes Klencke, a Dutch merchant and scholar who was hoping to curry favor ...

“Imagine going to a bookstore or the library to pick up a riveting read, and all they have is thousands of copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” writes Frank Jacobs, speaking our language in the ...