Just a short distance away and with thousands of miles of scenic coastline, Brittany may be your next big summer adventure. When Claude Monet visited the region in 1886 he wrote “I am in a wonderfully wild region, with terrifying rocks and a sea of unbelievable colours”. Here is a selection of our products to help you to navigate the trickier parts of the coast and find many beautiful places to visit along the way. Continue reading Brittany by boat by Stanfords Maritime
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Come and meet Fangs McGraw at Stanfords Bristol
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital charity, has revealed its sixty-plus sculptures of Academy Award®-winning characters Wallace, Gromit and Feathers McGraw around Bristol and its surrounding area. Continue reading Come and meet Fangs McGraw at Stanfords Bristol
Where will your reading take you this summer?
Whether you are packing a book in your suitcase and after some in-situ reading or if you are staying at home and travelling vicariously through books, we’ve chosen some fiction that will take you places:
Continue reading Where will your reading take you this summer?
Going to Budapest? Make sure you visit the Schiffer Villa
Annabel Barber, Editor of the Blue Guides tells us about Miksa Schiffer and urges us all to add the Schiffer Villa to our places to visit in Budapest: Continue reading Going to Budapest? Make sure you visit the Schiffer Villa
Five examples of how the map of London isn’t always as it first appears
Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London’s past, present and future with his beautiful, witty and subversive cartographic pieces. His astonishing maps offer a compelling view of history, lore, language and life in the capital and beyond.
To celebrate the launch of ‘Maps of London & Beyond’ we asked Adam Dant to give us Five examples of how the map of London isn’t always as it first appears. Continue reading Five examples of how the map of London isn’t always as it first appears
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel With Animals. Jack Sparrow by Rachel A Davis
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel With Animals is a new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. Writers include David Attenborough, Dervla Murphy, Gerald Durrell and Dom Tullet (the winner of last year’s Edward Stanford Travel Writers Awards New Travel Writer) to name a few. To celebrate its launch, we have a couple of the stories from the book for you to read online. Here is Jack Sparrow by Rachel A Davis.
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Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel With Animals. Habibi by Sheelagh Reynolds
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel With Animals is a new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. Writers include David Attenborough, Dervla Murphy, Gerald Durrell and Dom Tullet (the winner of last year’s Edward Stanford Travel Writers Awards New Travel Writer) to name a few. To celebrate its launch, we have a couple of the stories from the book for you to read online. Here is Habibi by Sheelagh Reynolds. Grab a cup of tea and have a read.
Continue reading Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel With Animals. Habibi by Sheelagh Reynolds
Stanfords Staff Selects: London Fiction
Here at Stanfords we sell maps and books from all over the world, but sometimes there is no place like home. We currently have a buy one get one half price offer on a selection of our favourite London books, gifts and guides. To give you a real taste of this wonderful city, here is some of our favourite London fiction: Continue reading Stanfords Staff Selects: London Fiction
Windsor: Maps and More
It’s all happening in Windsor this weekend. If you are lucky enough to be attending the Royal Wedding, here are some maps & atlases of the area so you can make the most of your stay and some souvenirs for you to remember the big day:
Land Rover Bursary
If you were given £30,000 and the use of a Land Rover to make a geographical journey, where would you go and what would you do?
The Land Rover Bursary, run by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on behalf of Land Rover, is aimed at people who want to undertake a challenging geographical journey. Whether you are conducting a research project or connecting with local schools and communities, the Land Rover vehicle must be integral to your expedition.
Past recipients have mapped the first long-distance hiking trail across the Lesser Caucasus mountain range, driven the length of Peru and Chile to study 15 active volcanoes, and chased the onset of winter across Eurasia to the coldest inhabited place on Earth.
Inspiring and engaging with others is a key part of the Land Rover Bursary. Whether this is mapping trails for hikers, developing school resources or documenting your journey through videography, reaching out to a wide variety of audiences is an important part of sharing your experiences with the world.
The deadline for the next Land Rover Bursary is 10 June 2018 – apply now for the opportunity to make your geographical adventure a reality.
For more information on the bursary and how to apply, visit the RGS-IBG website.