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MAPS OF MALAYA AND BORNEO: Discovery, Statehood and Progress by Frédéric Durand and Dato’ Richard Curtis
May 01, 2014
Written by
Jonathan Wright
This beautifully produced volume contains 160 maps from the collections of Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and Dato’ Richard Curtis, ranging from the early-16th to the late-20th centuries, and tell an extraordinary tale of political change, cultural encounter and the advancement of…
SEXTANT by David Barrie
May 01, 2014
Written by
Michael Smith
These days, navigation has seemingly been reduced to pressing a button on a sat nav or GPS. But David Barrie’s lively, eloquent history of the sextant is a reminder that this wasn’t always the case
WHERE DO CAMELS BELONG? The Story and Science of Invasive Species by Ken Thompson
May 01, 2014
Written by
Mick Herron
‘Alien invasion’ is as much an environmental dog-whistle issue as a political one, and many of the same questions apply – notably, do species ‘belong’ where they evolved, or where they end up?
THE LAND WHERE LEMONS GROW: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
May 01, 2014
Written by
Mick Herron
The author’s citrus adventures began when, visiting a garden in the Veneto, she picked up a piece of fallen fruit and learned ‘the only lesson an ignorant orange thief could understand’: that Seville oranges are bitter enough to cauterise the tongue
DESERT: Nature and Culture by Roslynn D Haynes
May 01, 2014
Written by
Bijan Omrani
The word ‘desert’ evokes a place of wearying nothingness, devoid of life, culture or fertility. But, as Roslynn D Haynes, a professor at the University of New South Wales, shows in this beautifully written and sumptuously illustrated new book, the reality…
TIBET: An Unfinished Story by Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper
May 01, 2014
Written by
Jules Stewart
Defenceless within, undefended without, Tibet remains a victim of the Cold War. Today, only the exiled Dalai Lama survives as a symbol of Tibet’s will to survive and a moral challenge to Chinese occupation
ACTS OF UNION AND DISUNION by Linda Colley
Apr 01, 2014
Written by
Jonathan Wright
With a referendum on Scottish independence in the offing, it’s a good time to ask the question contained within this book’s subtitle: ‘What has held the UK together and what is dividing it?’
MAPPING THE NEW WORLD: Renaissance Maps from the American Museum in Britain by Anne Armitage and Laura Beresford
Apr 01, 2014
Written by
Jan McCann
In 1988, the American Museum in Britain – located near Bath – received a bequest of more than 200 Renaissance maps of the New World from Dr Dallas Pratt, the museum’s co-founder
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