"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 ...

When he was growing up in communist Bulgaria, graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov became obsessed with maps. Atlases were among the few colorful books he had access to, and he spent hours tracing the maps ...

If you want to inspire your kids to travel, then reading map books is a great way for kids to visualise how big and diverse ...

The Lovecraft Atlas, which beautifully maps the cosmically terrifying worlds brought into existence H.P, Lovecraft, is only ...

“This is an atlas of the world — not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be,” Brooke-Hitching writes in an introduction. “The countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, continents, and ...

Our world is a beautiful and fascinating place full of amazing creatures and features. As it is physically (and financially too) not possible to go to all these places and discover the wonders of this ...

Dubai: EARTH, the masterpiece atlas, created by the award-winning Australian publishing company, Millennium House, has achieved near sell-out at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), drawing ...

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 ...

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 ...