Sometimes funny, sometimes elegant, always exquisitely drawn; this annotated travel journal, portraysFrench illustrator Lapin’s adopted home city of Barcelona. Lapin is a French illustrator, an artist, a French urban sketcher based in Barcelona. He c...

For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...

"Make your mark in New York and you are a made man" wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it's "an aviary over-stocked with ja...

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the "most extraordinary place in the world", for Hazlitt, "a beast of a city", and for French writers, the essence...

Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage Facility? What is the story behind the library's refusal t...

"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages", so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...

For sale in CIS only! In 1762 the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau observed that we are blind half our lives because of what we miss during the night. Yet we fear the dark, and are led to believe that bad things happen during the small hours, espec...

For sale in CIS only! In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Traversing 2,5...

An extra-large (30,5x21,6 cm) adult colouring poster by the artist Victor Escandell. Colour and dive into the details of one of the masterpieces of 20th century architecture, Casa MIla (also known as La Pedrera) by famous architect Gaudi in Barcelona...

An extra-large (30,5x21,6 cm) adult colouring poster by the artist Victor Escandell. Colour and dive into the details of the famous Temple of the Sagrada Familia's the masterpiece of Gaudi in Barcelona. Poster is folded, wrapped in cardboard with a s...