Land’s End, Cornwall (Heritage-Images / CM Dixon / AKG)
Kirov Statue, Baku (AKG / Sputnik)
Share certificate, Baku Consolidated Oilfields Ltd.
Camels in front of Dubai (Buena Vista Images / Getty)
India Gate, New Delhi (Wikimedia Commons)
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur (Jeffrey)
Satellite image of Singapore (Planet Observer / UIG / Bridgeman)
T&O map from Isidorus, Etymologiae (1472) (Isidore of Seville)
Le Morne Brabant, Mauritius (AKG / Erich Meyer Luftaufnahmen)
Willem Blaeu, India quae Orientalis dicitur (1635)
Mount Field, Tasmania (Julian Peters / Alamy)
Mount Cook, New Zealand (B. Muirhead)
Cooks Bay, Tahiti (iPics Photography / Alamy)
The Austronesian Language Group
Interstate 45, southwest of Houston (RosaBetancourt / Alamy)
North American Native Languages
Sundial, Caius College, Cambridge (De Agostini Picture Library / C. Novara / Bridgeman)
Destinations board (Marshall Ikonography / Alamy)
Anonymous American cartoon of John Bull, 1882 (Granger Archive / Alamy)
1. Goethe in the Roman Campagna, by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1787) (Martin Kraft / Städelsche Kunstinstitut / Wikimedia Commons).
2. Miniature of Dante and Virgil meeting Ulysses, from a fourteenth-century Venetian illuminated manuscript (De Agostini / A. Dagli Orti / Bridgeman).
3. King Mark depicted in a thirteenth-century German miniature (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / De Agostini / Bridgeman).
4. Tristan Stone, Menabilly (Kevin Britland / Alamy).
5. Cornish chough (F. O. Morris / Wikimedia Commons).
6. Bishop Sir Jonathan Trelawny (c. 1688), by Sir Godfrey Kneller (Royal Cornwall Museum / Bridgeman).
7. Daphne du Maurier (AKG / Ullstein).
8. ‘Dolly’ Pentreath (c. 1775), the last speaker of Cornish (Wellcome Library).
9. Baccu (1683), by Engelbert Kaempfer (Johann Baptist Homann / Wikimedia Commons).
10. Flame Towers, Baku (Steven Liveoak / Alamy).
11. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan (AKG / Universal / Tass).
12. The Execution of the Twenty-Six Commissars (1925) by Isaac Brodsky (AKG).
13. The Dunsterforce in Baku, 1918 (© Imperial War Museum).
14. Wilfred Thesiger (Pitt Rivers Museum / Bridgeman).
15. Abu Dhabi, 1948 (Pitt Rivers Museum / Bridgeman).
16. Abu Dhabi Corniche, 2012 (Norman Davies).
17. Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi (Norman Davies).
18. Dubai (Maggie Steber / National Geographic / Bridgeman).
19. Gold bullion machine, Dubai (LOOK Die Bildagentur der Fotografen GmbH / Alamy).
20. Laxminarayan Temple, Delhi (David Henley / Bridgeman).
21. Jama Masjid, Delhi (Gerard Degeorge / AKG).
22. Lotus Temple, Delhi (Arian Zwegers / Wikimedia Commons).
23. King George V and Queen Mary at the Red Fort, Delhi, 1913 (IAM / AKG).
24. Group of untouchables, c. 1890 (J. T. Vintage / Bridgeman).
25. B. R. Ambedkar (Wikimedia Commons).
26. Chamba State, 3 pies grey, 1911 (Norman Davies).
27. Durbar at Kuala Kangsar, 1897 (Pictures from History / AKG).
28. Frank Swettenham (1904), by John Singer Sargent (NPG 4837, National Portrait Gallery / Stefano Baldini / Bridgeman).
29. Straits Settlements, 32 cents purple (1867) (Norman Davies).
30. ‘Running Amok’, from de Molins, ‘Voyage à Java 1858–61’, Le Tour du Monde, 10 (1864) (Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte / AKG).
31. Malayan Emergency, 1949 (Pictures from History / AKG).
32. Abdul Rahman, 1965 (AGIP / Bridgeman).
33. Tugu Negara (Uwe Aranas / Wiki Commons).
34. Singapore Harbour, 1900 (PVDE / Bridgeman).
35. Singapore skyline (Merlion444 / Wikimedia Commons).
36. Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles by George Francis Joseph (1817) (NPG 84, National Portrait Gallery).
37. Raffles Hotel, Singapore (Elisa.rolle / Wikimedia Commons).
38. Surrender of Singapore, 1942 (Ullstein Bild / AKG).
39. Map of Europe, woodcut from Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia (Basel, 1628) (AKG).
40. Sixteenth-century Ottoman map of the Maghreb (De Agostini / G. Dagli Orti / AKG).
41. Kleeblat Map, from Heinrich Bünting, Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (1581) (Wikimedia Commons).
42. Hasekura Tsunenaga (1615) (Pictures from History / AKG).
43. Alexander Blok (1921) (AKG).
44. Burke and Wills expedition (Universal History Archive / UIG / Bridgeman).
45. The Dutch in Mauritius (1598), from Johann Theodor de Bry, Variorum Navigationis (1601) (Bibliotheque National / Archives Charmet / Bridgeman).
46. Saftleven dodo (Boijmans Museum / Wikimedia Commons).
47. Slaves carrying a palanquin, by Choubardin de Freycinet, Voyage Autour du Monde sur les Corvettes de L’Uranie 1817–20 (1825) (Bridgeman).
48. Bertrand-François Mahé (Musee des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie / Bridgeman).
49. Hindus at prayer, Mauritius (AKG).
50. Stamps from the Bordeaux Cover (J. O. Barnard / Wikimedia Commons).
51. Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (Keystone Pictures / Alamy).
52. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / Wikimedia Commons).
53. Governor Davey’s Proclamation (1830), Van Diemen’s Land (Pictures from History / Bridgeman).
54. Port Arthur, Tasmania (Andrew Braithwaite / Wikimedia Commons).
55. Abel Janszoon Tasman (Bridgeman).
56. Native of Van Diemen’s Land (1777), by John Webber (De Agostini / Bridgeman).
57. Maori war canoe (1770), by Sidney Parkinson (De Agostini / AKG).
58. Maori man (1769), by Parkinson (World History Archive /AKG).
59. Tawhiao I (World History Archive /AKG).
60. The Emigrants (1844), by William Allsworth (Museum of New Zealand / Bridgeman).
61. The New Zealand Wars, by Orlando Norie (Erich Lessing / AKG).
62. Charles de Brosses (Wikimedia Commons).
63. Tahitian breadfruit, from James Cook, Account of a Voyage Round the World in the Years 1768–71 (1773) (Granger / Bridgeman).
64. Louis de Bougainville lands at Tahiti (Granger / Bridgeman).
65. Oaitepeha Bay (c. 1775), Tahiti, by William Hodges (Pictures from History / AKG).
66. Tahitian Dance (c. 1775), after Webber (Sammlung Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte / AKG).
67. Pömare IV, by Paul-Emile Mio (Alamy).
68. Établissements de l’Océanie, 1 cent grey (1934) (Norman Davies).
69. Comanche Feats of Horsemanship (1834–5), by George Caitlin (Smithsonian / Bridgeman).
70. Texas broadside, 1836 (Granger / Bridgeman).
71. Quanah Parker (Peter Newark Western Americana / Bridgeman).
72. Antonio López de Santa Anna, c. 1849 (Granger / Bridgeman).
73. Samuel Houston (Ken Welsh / Bridgeman).
74. Oil gusher at Port Arthur, Texas, 1901 (World History Archive / Bridgeman).
75. The Landing in 1608 at Ver Planck Point (1842), by Robert Walter Weir (Christie’s / Bridgeman).
76. Fort of New Amsterdam, 1614 (AKG).
77. The Toppling of King George III’s Gilded Statue, by John C. McRae (Granger / Bridgeman).
78. Lappawinsoe, lithograph after painting by Gustavus Hesselius, 1838 (J. T. Vintage / Bridgeman).
79. Israel Zangwill (Ken Welsh / Bridgeman).
80. Porto do Cruz, Madeira (Franck Guiziou / Hemispicture / Getty).
81. Combination Room, Peterhouse College, Cambridge (Look and Learn / Bridgeman).
82. Diogo Cão (Prisma / AKG).
83. Winston Churchill, Camara do Lobos, Madeira, 1953 (Ullstein Bild / Getty).
84. Senhora do Monte, Madeira (Barry Caruth / Wikimedia Commons).
85. Charles I and Zita, Madeira, 1921 (SZ Photo / Bridgeman).
86. ‘The Flying Dutchman’, KLM poster, 1938 (DaTo Images / Bridgeman).
87. Flight MH 370 (Aero Icarus / Wikimedia Commons).
88. Unterschweinstiege (Peng / Wikimedia Commons).