Bibliophile is thrilled to find copies remaining to discount of this huge and beautiful book of the work of England's most famous topographer, Thomas Moule. The series of country and city maps he produced in the 1830s are 65 engraved maps of great refinement and quality and their protracted life is evidence of their popularity. His work is celebrated as the very last decorative series of county maps to be published and have become highly collectable as single-sheet frameable pieces. This volume presents the author's original county text descriptions for the first time since original publication and his original Introduction. In some cases a city map is included and descriptions explore Moule's work alongside the rapidly changing cartographic production methods and the consequent explosion in mapmaking, and at the same time railway mania which was taking place. Influenced by mapmaker John Speed, with extensive heraldry and vignette views of buildings and monuments, Moule's deep interest in, and stylistic application of, Gothic architectural elements was part of the wider appeal. Original place names, churches, monasteries, roads and parishes, rivers and inland navigation are extensively listed, and the hills of England with districts of red sandstone and red marl, and low water beaches. England has four points of strength, he observes - two are her coal and her iron, two of them are moral - freedom of the press and trial by jury. Beginning with Bedfordshire, turn the volume on its side to admire the glorious graphic design, borders, exquisite handwritten place names before moving to glorious Cambridgeshire and a map of the town and University of Cambridge. Cornwall, Cumberland, Plymouth and Devonport, Durham, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Boston, the Plague and the Fire of London, the City of Westminster, Monmouthshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, West Moreland, Wiltshire and ending with the Yorkshire East Riding, 55 county and city maps included with full text in lavish colour publication. 15" wide 12" tall.

The acclaimed author of 'The Invention of Paris' leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as little-known alleyways and arcades. Filled with historical anecdotes, geographical observations and literary references, Eric Hazan's walk guides us through an unknown Paris, showing us how, through planning and modernisation, the city's revolutionary past has been erased in order to enforce a reactionary future. But by walking and observation he shows us how we can regain our knowledge of the radical past of the city of Robespierre, the Commune, Sartre and the May-68 Uprising. The book begins and ends in a bookshop, the Envie de Lire, a place of 'browsing and discovery'. With lovely little hand drawn maps and dozens of photos throughout the text, 198pp in paperback.

Drawn from the Francis Frith Collection photographic archive, this volume of over 400 photographs from the period 1865 to 1928 shows urban and rural Britain, people at work and play and tourist attractions such as Stonehenge and Bodiam Castle. Quaint cottages with rose bedecked walls, old stone-built pubs, ancient buttressed abbeys, ruined Franciscan priories, strange rock formations and tree-lined lanes - all sights we can still see today, but here the people bring the photos to life. Here are children paddling in the sea at Weymouth in 1909 with the girls in wide-brimmed hats, their white dresses tucked into their drawers. Other photos include solemn-faced boys packed onto an elephant in 1913 at London Zoo, ladies in straight shifts and cloche hats walking along a low bridge at Newquay in 1925 and a bowler-hatted young man posing with his horse-drawn delivery cart outside the shop. Though the pace of life was slower and the surroundings more picturesque, people still enjoyed visiting the beach, rummaging around a street market strolling on the pier, peering in shop windows or relaxing in a deckchair just watching the world go by, exactly like us. Covers family, church, military, school, parks, traffic and trains, high streets and shops, town halls, beauty spots and lakes, trade and attractions like donkey rides, paddling at Barry Island and Redcar, The Yorkshire Pierrots on Clacton-on-Sea 1912 with newly discovered leisure time for the masses. Goodwood races, golfing and boat races have changed very little. Wonderful snapshots of a bygone era, many 1880s-1910s all around Britain. The photos are from the Francis Frith and Archie Miles collections. Large, square format 11½", 400 full page mono very nostalgic photos, a real glimpse of past lives and times. Text in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. 320 pages, 27.8 x 29cm.
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The capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900 Vienna consisted of some 15 nations and drew in many artists and intellectuals in a creative melting pot. In rapid succession Historicism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism developed as the dominant art styles and these emerged from typical Viennese themes. One of the first images in this sumptuous volume is of Gustav Klimt's Auditorium of the Opera House and Theatre followed by colour photographs of modern Viennese architecture, sepia postcards before this magnificent gallery of portraits by artists like Hans Makart of a beautiful female pianist and singer, a Caught Ball, idyllic family scenes with children, Leopold Carl Müller's Camel Market in Cairo, the sensuous Woman in Yellow by Max Kurzweil and his romantic A Walk in the Garden, the stunning gold iconography of Klimt, his Yearning for Happiness, poster art, Garden with Sunflowers, A Church in Cassone, his graphic Sitting Male nude and Two Girlfriends, self-portraits and nudes by Egon Schiele, nude male studies by Koloman Moser and much more architectural legacies photographed in colour, plus interiors and design, greetings cards, fashion and more. The turn of the 20th century was a fascinating period in Vienna, as Austria-Hungary's capital on the Danube became a leading centre of modernism, defined by styles of Art Nouveau, historicism and Expressionism, all with a touch of typical Viennese morbidity. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann dreamed of forging a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artistic expression, in which not just design, architecture and crafts were combined, but also art and life itself. In this sumptuously illustrated album, art historian Janina Nentwig explores such major movements in Vienna as the Vienna Secession, themes of sex and Eros and death in painting, the construction of the Ring Road, ornamentation and architecture, and objects of everyday beauty from the Wiener Werkstätte. Oozing with hundreds of colour photos. 320 pages, softback, 21 x 24cm.
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The academic, TV personality and foreign correspondent Roger Willemsen admits more often than not his quest is driven by 'a predilection for unlovely things.' He traverses five continents in a series of 22 engaging essays reflecting on a lifetime of travel to the far and forgotten corners of our planet. He offers remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements in locations as diverse as a Kamchatkan volcano, a Burmese railway station, an Arctic icebreaker, the dimly lit corridor of a Mumbai brothel, a hospital ward in Minsk, a fresco of the Judgement Day in Orvieto. From this remarkable series of psychogeographic sketches, there emerges another kind of end, cathartic and healing, an end to love and lust, to illusions, to order and understanding as he traces unexpected connections among places, times and peoples. Chapter headings include Eiffel, Gibraltar, the Himalayas, Isafjördur, Patagonia, Timbuktu, Mandalay, Hong Kong, Tonga and the North Pole among them. 490pp in glamorous heavyweight hardback.

As the publisher for Time Out, Peter Fiennes nurtured a lifelong obsession with old guide books, walking books and city guides and titles about Britain's countryside and seaside. Here he turns his attention to the golden age of Greek myths and how they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But what's the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children and what's to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled? Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. He walks through landscapes both stunning and spoiled on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the 'most beautiful beach in Greece', consults the Oracle, and loses himself in cities, villages and ruins of this storied land. 'A classical education for those of us who are bereft of one.' - Patrick Barkham. 294pp, line art and map.

Following a successful career as an award-winning, best-selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Terán retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much has been written about her life and escapades with a trio of Venezuelan exiles, life on an Andean hacienda, her return to literary fame, and two decades living in a crumbling Umbrian palace. But despite all the media hype about her, she managed to hide much of her actual life. Now, like the Japanese art of kintsugi, in this new memoir Lisa puts the shattered pieces of her life back together, filling in many of the dramatic, and often scandalous, gaps. While her life has been said to be stranger than fiction, it is fiction that has kept her afloat. This autobiography sets the record straight and shows a writer who for over half a century has enjoyed following her dreams, even when those dreams outdistanced her reach. Lisa St Aubin de Terán is the prize-winning Anglo-Guyanese London-born author of 20 books, including novels, short stories and nonfiction. Much of her writing draws on her varied life experiences. And time warps, rural communities, isolation and grace under pressure are still the dominant themes in both her life and work. It has been featured in the Times and the Sunday Times also she is appearing on BBC Radio 4 Woman?s Hour and reviews will be in The Daily Telegraph, Lady Magazine and featured heavily on social media. Famous along with Salman Rushdie and Rose Tremain in the 1980s, wild child Lisa disappeared from the London literary scene for over 20 years. She has now returned with a suitcase full of her writing - this hugely enjoybable and curious autbiography, and a bunch of novels! She was neighbours with Eric Newby and a voracious reader, described by a school teacher as a "fatherless half-caste", she adored her charismatic father. Publication date 24th January. 326pp, 234 x 153mm. New Full price hardback.

This collection of early colour photographs of the Scottish coastline comes from the heyday of the picture postcard, driven by the explosion in railway travel and the popularity of Scottish scenery inspired by Queen Victoria's love of the Highlands. These postcards provide a route back into long-vanished townscapes, while the costumes and millinery give us a real insight into fashion and the social life of the time. Starting on the west coast we visit the charming town of Kirkcudbright, a magnet for artists, whose picturesque harbour and sailing ships have long disappeared. Nearby Stranraer is the home of the ferry to Ireland, shown here in 1909 with the last of two paddle steamers to serve the route. Further north, McBrayne's paddle steamer is shown in 1908 entering the canal system at Fort William. In the 19th century Girvan was the embarkation point for emigrants to Canada, and its beaches became a tourist attraction with the arrival of the railway. Campbeltown at the base of the Kintyre peninsula had over 30 distilleries and 600 fishing boats at the start of the 20th century. In 1853, angry locals in Garelochhead blockaded the town's pleasure steamer from an invasion of tourists, while nowadays the town repels invasion as Britain's submarine base. Port Glasgow and Clydebank prospered because of the ships of awesome size built in the docks. On the east coast, Aberdeen has been transformed from a fishing town into a powerhouse of energy supplies. A photo from 1880 shows the partially collapsed Tay Bridge, while further down the east coast, a magnificent photo foregrounds the ferry Forfarshire on the South Queensferry slipway. 132pp, softback, handcoloured postcards on every page.

The quote on the back of this book is by Martha Gellhorn: 'I do not want to be good...I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.' Sara Wheeler's prize-winning books include Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica and The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic, and she is Britain's foremost travel writer. Here is the story of her travelling life, what is 'important, revealing or funny', in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where 'we didn't know anyone who wasn't like us', Sara knew she needed to get away. In her 20s she began a dramatic escape, pole to pole via Poland. Her book recalls happy days on India's Puri Express; an Antarctic lavatory through which a seal popped up, with hot fishy breath!; and the louche life of a Parisian shopgirl. Corralling reindeer with the Sámi in Arctic Sweden, and towing her baby on a sledge, a helpful herdsman advised her to put foil down her bra to facilitate nursing. Launching at Nubility, Wheeler voyages via small children to the welcoming port of Invisibility. She leaves Immobility for the next volume. But advancing years usher in unheralded freedoms, and journey's end finds Wheeler at peace among Zanzibar dhows, contemplating our connection with other lives - the irreplaceable value that travel brings - and paying homage to her heroines. 'Surely' wrote Freya Stark, 'Of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.' Fairly large print, photos, we travel with our wonderful companion to Antarctica, Greece, India, Africa, North America, Latin America, China, Russia and Zanzibar. 354pp.

Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks, Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made during the course of a career spent thinking and writing about art. The critic has travelled all over the world in pursuit of first-hand encounters with art and artists, often to fairly inaccessible places involving frustrations and complications, but he also made serendipitous encounters and outcomes which he makes as much a part of the story as the final destination. Ever amusing, informative and self-deprecating, he recounts trips to see Brancusi's Endless Column in Romania, prehistoric cave art in France, the Museum Island of Naoshima in Japan, the Judd Foundation in Marfa Texas and a Roni Horn work in Iceland. Other journeys are to meet artists like Robert Rauschenberg in New York, Marina Abramovic in Venice, Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or a trip to Beijing with Gilbert & George. He takes a descent into Anselm Kiefer's Underworld, discusses Leonardo's Lady with Jenny Holzer, considers the Sistine Chapel and the moment when a wave breaks with Jenny Saville. He also meets with Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Frank and Gerhard Richter. These encounters provide insights into the way artists approach and think about their art, and reveal the importance of their personal environment to their practice. They also affect Gayford's own evolving ideas over a lifetime of passionate engagement with art. He is a perceptive and knowledgeable companion who shares the highs and lows with cultural travel and convinces us that where art is concerned only being there will do. 192pp well illustrated with colour photos. A glamorous Thames & Hudson publication.