Collection: Reference

Illustrated with hundreds of archive photographs and line drawings, Cruisers of World War Two is the large-format, comprehensive reference on the subject. Within one volume, it describes all the cruisers extant, completed or laid down during the period 1939-1945 by the nations of the world. Each ...

The purpose of this atlas - now revised to encompass fundamental changes in the country since 1983 - is to make this fascinating, much-mythologized country accessible to the general reader

Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. Outstanding in Cambodia is the vast complex of Angkor which the recent political settlement has again put within the reach of many.

The first general introduction to the rugged continent, written by an Australian novelist with particular insight. Clancy focuses on the Anglo-Irish and more recent immigrants, but the Aboriginal context is also presented.

A guide for the professional and home gardener. The plants that dominate the landscape from Camden to Windsor and from Parramatta to Penrith.

Curiocity is the most beautiful and unusual guidebook ever written about London. The authors reimagine the city in twenty-six distinct ways, one for each letter of the alphabet, considering how London might look from a child's perspective or mapping the airspace above the city. At the heart of ea...