How It Works

THE LIBRARY

MARVELLOUS MAPS

PREPARE TO EXPLORE OUR WORLD AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE

AUTHOR SIMON KUESTENMACHER

ILLUSTRATOR MARGARIDA ESTEVES

PUBLISHER WELBECK

PRICE £20 /$24.65

RELEASE OUT NOW

Maybe you like looking at maps, or maybe you’ve never given that much thought to them. Either way, you’ll be a fan of this book – there are an awful lot of cartographical stats packed into every illustrated map inside that makes it very satisfying to look at. Take, for example, the two maps that show isochrones, or the lines that show how far you can travel from any given destination. has redrawn a modern isochrone map next to the original isochrone from 1914 that shows

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