"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

How do you impress a king? Here’s one idea—give him a giant book. That’s what the Dutch sugar merchant Johannes Klencke did in 1660, when English King Charles II was restored to the throne (and he ...

The Lovecraft Atlas, which beautifully maps the cosmically terrifying worlds brought into existence H.P, Lovecraft, is only available in French at the moment. It has yet to be translated into English ...

The story behind an atlas and landmark work of graphic design is the focus of a new book about designer Herbert Bayer’s contributions to information design and visual education. Herbert Bayer's World ...

Our world is a beautiful and fascinating place full of amazing creatures and features. As it is physically (and financially too) not possible to go to all these places and discover the wonders of this ...

“This is an atlas of the world — not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be,” Brooke-Hitching writes in an introduction. “The countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, continents, and ...

Louis Vuitton pieces together the essence of perfumery, uniting nature, luxury, travel, and scent, in the Maison’s latest book by Thames & Hudson. Louis Vuitton: A Perfume Atlas, elegantly maps out ...

Despite its exotic name, there’s a very good reason you’ve never booked a vacation to the Quilombo of Palmeres. Same goes for the Islands of Refreshment, the Fiume Endeavour and Neutral Moresnet. They ...

An extract from the map of Britain and Ireland showing fictional places in the south-east. Update March 2022: Atlas of Imagined Places has won the Edward Stanford Prize for Best Illustrated Travel ...

“Imagine going to a bookstore or the library to pick up a riveting read, and all they have is thousands of copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” writes Frank Jacobs, speaking our language in the ...