Cloth-backed reproduction from the Old Folding Maps of a political map of the world published by Edward Stanford in 1884 with Pacific Ocean at its centre. Country boundaries, drawn in different colours, present Europe & Africa very different from today, Asia with many changes mainly in the Middle East, but the Americas mostly unchanged. A particularly interesting feature of the map is the difference in the presentation of the two Polar Regions: the Arctic Ocean with most of its coastline already there, whilst the Antarctic is still in the early stages of exploration & only segments of its coast already mapped. Latitude & longitude lines are at 10° intervals; the map is drawn on a Mercator’s projection. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper – no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a paper wall map in two different sizes as part of the “ Stanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the full list of other titles in the series of cloth-backed reproductions from Old Folding Maps please click on the series link. ...

This is brilliantly British trivia! From Land`s End to John O` Groats, test your knowledge of all things that are great about Britain. Each box contains 80 baffling trivia cards, a great gift or something to bring the family together! This trivia box is part of our best selling Worldly Wise collection featuring all things fun & trivial about the world around us! ...

Put a hat on & find out who, what or where in the world you are by asking Yes or no questions. The passenger that collects the most cards wins! each back contains 8 card hearts & a variety of 120 cards. Perfect for almost endless fun & bringing the family together. This game is part of our best selling worldly wise collection featuring all things fun & trivial about the world around us. ...

Have the whole family howling with this Shout Out game by Talking Tables. Do you know a French word beginning with L, a country beginning with D or an Italian food beginning with P? Raise your voice & have a raucous time by shouting out your worldly knowledge. The first person to shout out correctly wins the stick! This game is part of our best selling Worldly Wise collection featuring all things fun & trivial about the world around us! ...

Travel the world from the confort of your own home. From Australia to zambia, show off your worldly knowledge with family & friends! Each pack contains 80 octagonal question cards, perfect for putting each other to the test! This trivia box is part of our best selling worldly wise collection featuring all things fun & trivial about the world around us. ...

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before. From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare`s plays appear at the most fascinating of times & in the most unexpected of places. No other writer`s work has been performed, translated, adapted & altered in such a remarkable variety of cultures & languages. But what is it about William Shakespeare
- a man from Warwickshire who never once set foot outside England
- that has made him at home in so many places around the globe? Travelling across four continents, six countries & 400 years, Andrew Dickson takes us on a personal journey rich in insight & surprise. We enter the air-conditioned vault deep beneath Capitol Hill where the world`s largest collection of First Folios is stored; discover the shadowy history of Joseph Goebbels` obsession with Shakespeare; & uncover the true story behind the scuffed edition in which Nelson Mandela & fellow Robben Island prisoners inscribed their names. Both cultural history & literary travelogue, Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is
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The second book in the monstrously funny & action-packed new series: Darkmouth. It`s going to be legendary. The adventures of the most unfortunate Legend Hunter ever to don fighting armour & pick up a Dessicator continue... On a list of things Finn never thought he`d wish for, a gateway bursting open in Darkmouth was right up there. But that`s about his only hope for finding his missing father. He`s searched for a map, he`s followed Steve into dead ends, but found nothing. & he`s still got homework to do. But soon Finn & Emmie must face bizarre Legends, a ravenous world & a face from the past as they go where no Legend Hunter has gone before. Or, at least, where no legend Hunter has gone before & returned with their limbs in the correct order. ...

The second book in the monstrously funny & action-packed new series: Darkmouth. It`s going to be legendary. The adventures of the most unfortunate Legend Hunter ever to don fighting armour & pick up a Dessicator continue... On a list of things Finn never thought he`d wish for, a gateway bursting open in Darkmouth was right up there. But that`s about his only hope for finding his missing father. He`s searched for a map, he`s followed Steve into dead ends, but found nothing. & he`s still got homework to do. But soon Finn & Emmie must face bizarre Legends, a ravenous world & a face from the past as they go where no Legend Hunter has gone before. Or, at least, where no legend Hunter has gone before & returned with their limbs in the correct order. ...

The much-anticipated fiction follow-up to Vertigo, this collection cements Joanna Walsh`s reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh`s stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In ` Like a Fish Needs a.. .`
- perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud & and &.. .) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O` Brien. Meanwhile, in ` Worlds from the Word`s End`, Walsh conjures up a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion
- something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read.

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From the dirty to the depraved, the barren to the downright boring, going off the beaten track isn`t always all it`s cracked up to be. This humorous guide, packed with bizarre facts, turns the travel genre on its head & uncovers some of the most unusual places the world has to offer. With weird & wonderful destinations from across the globe, discover the Kingdom of Dwarves theme park in China, an attraction where no-one measures above 5 feet tall. Or there`s Kazantip in the Crimea, where every year a mix of 150, 000 ravers & Russian Mafia bosses with their teen brides in tow go to listen to electronic music on rotation for six weeks. A summer break to the city of Cherrapunji, India may be a mistake with an average 29 days of rain in July & 26 in August. Meanwhile the health-conscious among you should probably avoid Evansville, Indiana, recently declared America`s fattest city. So unpack your bags, put away your passport, & save yourself some money by reading this guide. Then feel grateful that you`ll never make the mistake of visiting these places yourself. ...