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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. Marvellous Maps has redrawn a modern isochrone map next to the original isochrone from 1914 that shows at a single glance how long it would have taken someone travelling by ship, train or airship from London to anywhere in the world – be it Eastern Europe, Australia or the heart of Africa. In the case of the latter destination, it took well over a month a hundred years ago compared to under two days of travel time today.