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<div style="font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:22px">Maps</span></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4">A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time. Maps have much to tell us about the way our ancestors saw themselves and their place in the world.</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4">Drawn from seven centuries of maps held in The National Archives at Kew, near London, this superb selection spans maps found in medieval manuscripts, early estate maps, sea charts, maps used in military
campaigns and maps from treaties. The text explores who the mapmakers were, the purposes for which the maps were made, and what they tell us about the politics of the time.</font></p>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria">maps showing a deserted village and a
lost royal palace</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria">naval charts by 18th century explorers
Cook and Bligh</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria"><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>a
map drawn by George Washington as a British militiaman</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria">a sketch map from explorer David Livingstone’s
East Africa expedition</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria">maps drawn by a native American, a Maori
priest and an Aboriginal Australian</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria"><span style=""><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>a
map of routes to the Great Exhibition in 1851 presented on a lady’s kid glove</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Cambria,sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large; font-family:Cambria">a Treasure Island map complete with hearty
pirate used to advertise National Savings</span></span></li></ul>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4">Richly illustrated with reproductions of more than 100 maps, this is a fascinating and unusual journey through the world of maps and mapmakers.</font></p>
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<b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4">Rose Mitchell</font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> and
<b>Andrew Janes</b> are specialist map archivists at The National Archives, which is the UK government’s official archive, containing more than 1,000 years of history. In this book Rose and Andrew act as guides through the treasure house of the collections,
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