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  Dublin: Mapping the City

  Hardback | Pub: 14 Sep 2023

  £30.00

  Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of...

• Gaelic in Scotland 1698-1981

  E-Book | Pub: 01 Dec 2021

  £25.00

  Surprisingly little is known of the geographical history of Gaelic: where and when it was spoken in the past, and how and why the Gaelic-speaking area of Scotland – the Gaidhealtachd – has retreated and the language declined. A hundred years ago...

• Majestic River

  Hardback | Pub: 03 Nov 2022

  £30.00

  One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial...