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Index
Cover
Title Page
Preface
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE EARLY MAPS
› View from a medieval monastery: Chertsey Abbey, Surrey c.1430
› Bells, bridges and bog plants: Inclesmoor, Yorkshire, 15th century
› A deserted hamlet: near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, c.1519
› Castles and commons in a Welsh valley: St Bride’s Major, Glamorgan, before 1540
› A border line case: the Debateable Land between England and Scotland, 1552
› In the shadow of a long-lost palace: Cheam, Malden, Morden and Nonsuch, Surrey, 1553
› Beast on the battlements: Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, 1561
› Sea monsters, galleons and misty mountains: Ireland in the 16th century
› Summer on the lake: Sturmer Mere, Essex, 1571
› Sea change: a receding coastline: Rye, Sussex, 1572
› Rabbits galore! Methwold Warren, Norfolk, 1580
› The theatre of sky and earth: celestial and terrestrial map, 1602
› Around France: Niort and western France, 1636
CHAPTER TWO MAPPING THE METROPOLIS
› The Knights of St John: Valletta, Malta, c.1635–1643
› Old Father Thames: London, 1662
› Out of proportion: Willemstad, Curaçao, c.mid to late 17th century
› At home on the Main: Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1682
› A ring of bright water: Mantua, Italy, early 18th century
› I saw three ships: New York City, 1765
› Town and country: London, 1803
› Fine wine: Cape Town, Cape Colony (South Africa), 1833
› A city fit for a queen: Adelaide, South Australia, 1837
› Eastern capital: Edo (Tokyo), c.1853
› The turtle and the missionaries: Chengdu, China, 1906
› Separate and unequal: Nairobi, East Africa Protectorate (Kenya), c.1914
› Bombed out: London, 1940
CHAPTER THREE THE COUNTRYSIDE: LANDSCAPES IN TIME
› ‘All such necessarie things’: Aldbourne Chase, Wiltshire, 1608
› The dangers of decoration: The Fens, East Anglia, 1658
› Across four centuries; triumphs and disasters: Audley End, near Saffron Walden, Essex, 1666
› A confiscated Jacobite estate: Woodhall, Northumberland, 1736
› Going Dutch: Plegt Ankker, Berbice, Guiana, 1768
› A swamp in time: South Altamaha River, Georgia, 1771
› Towards a national survey: Sussex, 1778
› ‘Low Land’: Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1793
› Escape plan: Dartmoor, Devon, 1812
› The obelisk, the pheasantry and the blacksmith: Boconnoc, Cornwall, 1838
› A-hunting we will go: Campo de Gibraltar, Spain, 1873
› Seats with a view: British Isles, 1899
CHAPTER FOUR THEATRES OF WAR: MILITARY MAPS
› Saints and sinners: Saint-Denis, France, 1567
› A siege and a spy: Neuhäusel (Nové Zámky), Kingdom of Hungary, 1663
› George Washington – surveyor: Eastern Ohio Country, 1753–1754
› The greatest fortification in Europe: St Philip’s Castle, Minorca, 1754
› ‘The best fort in America’: Niagara, 1759
› Balloon debate: Brest, France, c.1800
› ‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’: Balaklava, Russian Empire, 1854
› Ambush at the ford: Mangapiko Stream, Waikato, New Zealand, 1864
› Trench warfare: Environs of Beaumont-Hamel and Serre, France, 1916
› Contours of conflict: Environs of Bulaybil, Transjordan, 1918
› The escapee’s most important accessory’: Germany and neighbours, c.1940–1942
› Neptune comes ashore: English Channel, 1944
› A new type of weapon: Nagasaki, Japan, 1945
CHAPTER FIVE CHARTING THE SEAS
› A medieval mariner’s compass: Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea, 14th century
› Confined to cabin: Cadiz, Spain, 1587
› The dowry of a queen: Tangier, 1675
› Seas of the midnight sun: Arctic Ocean, c.1675
› ‘Where ye Fire & Smoake cometh out’: Vesuvius, Bay of Naples, Italy, 1678
› A shocking shipwreck: Isles of Scilly, 1707
› Coffee with sugar: a captured French captain’s map: Martinique, 1757
› Sailing Wolfe to Quebec: St Lawrence River, New France, 1759
› Discoveries of the Resolution: Southern hemisphere, 1772–1775
› After the Mutiny: Bligh’s Islands (Fiji), c.1790
› Battles of the Nile: Aboukir and Alexandria, Egypt, c.1800, 1840
› White on white: Parry Channel, the North-West Passage, 1819–1820
› Gates to St Petersburg: Kronstadt, Russia, 1851
CHAPTER SIX NEW WORLDS: EXPLORATION AND THE COLONIES
› Land of great red grapes: the lost colony of Roanoke, c.1585
› Elephant and castle: West Africa, c.1680
› ‘Journey to the five Indian Nations’: Iroquois Country, 1700
› ‘An Indian a Hunting’: Carolina, c.1721
› A slave fort: James Island, River Gambia, 1755
› Rescued by Indians: Georgia and Alabama, 1757
› Wildlife on the border: Lake Champlain, 1767
› Kidnap, kauri trees and the underworld: New Zealand, 1793
› Kangaroo and campfire: King George Sound, Western Australia, 1833
› ‘No white man had ever traversed the country before’: River Shire and Lake Nyasa, East Africa, 1859
› Journeys to the centre of the earth: highways of empire, 1926
› East of Aden: Indian subcontinent, 1948
CHAPTER SEVEN MAPS THAT WITNESSED HISTORY
› A murder mystery: Kirk O’Field, Edinburgh, 1567
› Lost beneath the waves: Port Royal, Jamaica, 1692–1870
› Realm of the Romanovs: Russia in Europe, 1763–1836
› An emperor in exile: St Helena, 1815
› Steaming ahead: The Stockton & Darlington Railway, County Durham, 1822
› At a curious angle: Lake of the Woods, United States of America and Canada, 1872–1876
› New territories: Hong Kong, 1898
› An evil empire? The British Empire, 1915
› The land of the dead: The Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1926
› ‘Peace for our time’: Czechoslovakia, 1938
› ‘Gas chambers in a wood’: Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Poland, c.1942
› The last place on Earth: Antarctica, 1953–1957
CHAPTER EIGHT WORLDS OF IMAGINATION
› Brave New World: The Americas, c.1700
› A royal scandal: ‘Green Bag Land’, 1820
› Geography at your fingertips: Great Britain and Ireland, 1839
› Perfect for a park: Albert Park, East London, 1845
› In the palm of your hand: London, 1851
› The measure of Melbourne: Australia and New Zealand, 1875
› An imaginary continent: Africa, 1886
› Cool as a cucumber: Central London Railway, 1911
› Race across the Atlantic: North Atlantic Ocean, 1912
› Make do and mend? Europe, c.1939
› Welcome to Smoky Cove: Reykjavík, Iceland, 1940
› ‘X’ marks the spot: Treasure Island, 1946
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