Planning your next big sailing adventure? We have some new products for the Atlantic Islands and coast of Portugal and Spain to help you plot your route in this amazing part of the world. Continue reading Books and charts for Atlantic Sailing
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Stanfords Staff Selects: Books About Running
Feeling inspired by all those marathon runners? We’ve chosen some of our favourite books about running so you can put your feet up and have a marathon reading session. Continue reading Stanfords Staff Selects: Books About Running
NEW MAP: Greenland Basal Topography BedMachine v3
Researchers at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), University of Bristol and University of California at Irvine (UCI), have produced a new map of what lies beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. By providing scientists with the most comprehensive, high resolution and accurate picture of the bedrock and coastal seafloor, it reveals how the glaciers that drain from the Greenland Ice Sheet will contribute to future sea-level rise. Continue reading NEW MAP: Greenland Basal Topography BedMachine v3
The Art of Cartographics: Designing the Modern Map
We’ve seen so many different types of cartography in our time. From the archive replicas in our map room to illustrated maps by new artists. It’s so interesting to see how it is evolving as an art and how different people interpret maps differently. The Art of Cartographics is a collection of maps that showcases the most creative and interesting design projects from around the world. It features geographical maps, fictional maps and fresh and innovative approaches to cultural, economic and political maps. Here is a glimpse of what’s inside: Continue reading The Art of Cartographics: Designing the Modern Map
Cycle to Work Day
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”- Ernest Hemingway
13th September 2017 is National Cycle to Work Day. Not only is cycling to work good for learning the lay of the land, it is also a great way of sneaking exercise into your daily routine and it means you can legitimately eat a second breakfast. Continue reading Cycle to Work Day
Journey of a Lifetime Award
Are you passionate about radio and storytelling? Are you excited about finding new ways to tell original stories in sound? Are you itching to explore and understand the world around you? Continue reading Journey of a Lifetime Award
Where Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel wins Wainwright Prize
He’s done it again. John Lewis-Stempel has won the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize with his book Where Poppies Blow. Chronicling the relationship between man and nature during the Great War, this win is particularly poignant as this week is the centenary anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele. Lewis-Stempel is no stranger to winning this award having picked up the prize in 2015 with Meadowland.
The winner was announced this afternoon at the BBC Countryfile Live at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
For the full shortlist see here.
Five ways to love the Arctic by David Bellamy
Watercolour artist and author David Bellamy has always loved exploring the world’s wildest places. In his latest book David Bellamy’s Arctic Light he tells the story of several extraordinary expeditions. Here he shares with us, five ways to love the Arctic. Continue reading Five ways to love the Arctic by David Bellamy
Stanford’s Folio Smaller Railway Map of the United States (1876)
The Stanford’s Smaller Railway Map of the United States is from a fascinating series of reproductions from our Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive. This map was originally published in 1876, the year the United States celebrated its centennial. Continue reading Stanford’s Folio Smaller Railway Map of the United States (1876)
Allez! Allez! Allez!
The pièce de résistance of the cycling calendar begins on 1st July with the Grand Départ of the 104th Tour de France. Over the three weeks, the cyclists will cover 3,521 kilometres before crossing the Champs-Elysées finish line on Sunday 23rd July. Of the 21 stages five are mountain stages and they will only have two rest days. If you are already panicking about how you will fill those two TDF-free days, here are some books, maps and accessories to keep you busy thinking about bikes. Continue reading Allez! Allez! Allez!