Marvellous Maps: Our changing world in 40 amazing maps

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These map skills lesson plans are perfect for teaching your class or child about this most important of life skills. Whether you'd like to teach a one-off lesson or a whole unit on the topic, you'll find everything you need in this fantastic collection of teacher-made resources. What's more, everything you'll find here is designed in accordance with the National Curriculum aims for geography, so that you can be sure you're teaching only the relevant content to your class or child. What do these map skills lesson plans contain? POINTS OF INTEREST: An enchanting selection of museums, mystical must-knows and place names that’ll give you the shivers.

The Intrepidly Time-Travelling Great British History Map is a full-colour, two-sided map folding out to 100 cm x 89 cm, featuring: The 'Point of the Peak' is a subsidiary summit of Waun Rydd in the Brecon Beacons national park, and part of the classic horseshoe walk that takes in Pen y Fan. Disappointingly, Fan y Bîg was remeasured and downgraded from a mountain to a mere hill in 2018, but even though its technical status may have changed, it's clear the influence of this amusingly-named geographical feature is nothing less than mountainous. Close by is another legend of a hill, Lord Hereford's Knob. PantsVery pleased with mine - good quality maps and very entertaining. Good prompt and courteous service”

What isn’t great about a map that features every rude and silly place name in Britain? Nothing, that’s what.” — Stylist Magazine End Product Details Stuart MacBride's Aberdeen-set Logan McRae series and Claire MacLeary's local PIs Harcus and Laird fly the flag for the local subgenre of 'Tartan Noir', celebrated at the annual Granite Noir festival. Beyond the granite city, the village of Arbuthnott was the inspiration for Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, a frequent 'best Scottish novel' poll-topper, and on the coast, Slains Castle helped inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula. Moving inland, another key Aberdonian literary figure is Nan Shepherd, whose love for the Cairngorms shines through The Living Mountain, continually inspiring visitors to Britain's biggest national park. Hay-on-Wye OUTDOORS & ADVENTURE The very best wild and beautiful places, mountains, beaches, islands, rivers, lakes and family-friendly adventures

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Just about the greatest thing I’ve had dropped through my letterbox this year... brilliantly designed.” — Adventure Travel magazine End Product Details