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“I’m going on an adventure!” J.R.R. Tolkien I was standing in the British Library in London looking down into a museum cabinet where beneath a layer of glass, lay an original map of Mordor. Hand drawn on graph paper by Tolkien’s son Christopher in 1948. it was used by his father as an aid to […]
Our Journey Jottings Australia road trip is coming to an end. We’ve travelled from the rugged red rock of Uluru in central Australia and crossed half the continent to the lush green rainforest and reef of tropical north Queensland. This wonderful image by Lin Onus perfectly reflects our trip – A […]
Look at this amazing Post Office stamp map of Route 66 in the USA. It took Ken ‘The Landrunner’ Turmel two years to traverse the route and collect all the commemorative Post Office stamps created for the 70th anniversary of Route 66, in the USA. He has now reproduced the artwork for sale as a Post […]
“A grand sea on today; one moment we are in a valley & the next on a mountain. It is also considerably colder now. Our friend was quite near us this morning & we found by looking through the glass that she had got a lot of horses on board. Yesterday afternoon Ada had a […]
Living by the sea I’ve become very aware of the ever changing tides… their times and their heights. Governed by the moon, there are two high tides and two low tides in each twenty-four hour period, with the lunar cycle taking twenty-nine and a half-days to complete. This means that each day the tide occurs 50 minutes […]
Aboriginals have inhabited the Australian continent for at least 40,000 years, but it’s a matter of debate which European nationality was the first to ‘discover’ Australia and put it on the map. Terra Australis Incognita ~ The Unknown Land of the South ~ appeared on Ptolemy’s maps, circa 150AD. Ptolemy’s 8-book atlas ‘Geographica’ was the […]
100 Aker Wood – The Perfect Story Map Do you love the stories of Pooh Bear along with EH Shepherd’s gorgeous illustrations that adorn every page of AA Milne’s classic – The House at Pooh Corner? And what about the the magical map of 100 aker wood, which in the original version appeared pasted across […]
