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Mark Ovenden is a British writer and broadcaster. At the age of seven, he travelled alone ten miles on the London Underground, armed only with a map. He later gained entry to a Graphic Design course by submitting a reworking of the London tube map. His previous books are Great Railway Maps of the World, Metro Maps of the World, Paris Metro Style and London Underground by Design. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

A celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-colour reproductions of route maps and posters from the world's most iconic airlinesFrom the first faltering flights over plains, water, and mountains to the vast networks of today, air travel has transformed the world and how people see it. Maps played their part in showing what was possible and who was offering new opportunities. As tiny operations with barely s...

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A nostalgic and celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight, featuring full-color reproductions of route maps and posters from the world's most iconic airlines, from the author of bestselling cult classic Transit Maps of the World.In this gorgeously illustrated collection of airline route maps, Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts look to the skies and transport readers to another time. Hundreds of images span a century of passe...

Underground Cities looks at how the space beneath our streets is used in increasingly innovative and fascinating ways. From historical oddities, such as Berlin's hidden tunnels and Paris's catacombs to the building of modern subway systems and underground shopping malls and including today's pioneering engineering feats - such as, London's Crossrail and Tokyo's complex bicycle storage vaults - the innovations and engineering wonders of our cit...

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A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive history of one of the world's most celebrated design achievements, and the visionaries who brought it to life. Published in time for the 150th anniversary of the Tube in January.

A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, a great holiday gift, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagra...

An illustrated and comprehensive history of the world's greatest railway maps, and the railways behind them.

A gorgeously illustrated collection of the world's greatest railway maps and posters, historical and contemporary Transit Maps of the World was an extraordinary and unexpected success and is now a cult favorite. In his irresistible follow-up Mark Ovenden has produced a mesmerizing compendium of historical and contemporary railway maps and posters from every corner of the world. Hundreds of images, covering two centuries of railway advertising,...

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Using glorious, colorful graphics, Ovenden traces the story of mass transit in this comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system around the world.

Mark Ovenden is a British writer and broadcaster. At the age of seven, he travelled alone ten miles on the London Underground, armed only with a map. He later gained entry to a Graphic Design course by submitting a reworking of the London tube map. His previous books are Great Railway Maps of the World, Metro Maps of the World, Paris Metro Style and London Underground by Design. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.