Eight books about maps, diagrams, entropy

If everyone has personal ley lines running through the city, marked here and there with their own Hawksmoor-analogues, then two of the sites in the Rodcorpian earthbound constellation are Stanfords map shop on Long Acre and the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.

Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion - Pripyat and Chernobyl
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - incredible photographs of the abandoned city of Pripyat.

John Snyder: Flattening the Earth - 2000 Years of Map Projections
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)

Ian Gunn and Clive Hart: James Joyce's Dublin - A Topographic Guide to the Dublin of Ulysses
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - the centenary of Bloomsday is 16th June 2004: Bloomday100 and ReJoyce Dublin 2004.

Robin Wilson: Four Colours Suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - has good explanatory diagrams.

George Bacon: The A-Z of Victorian London
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - also the Georgian and Restoration A-Zs.

Mark Ovenden: Metro Maps of the World
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)

Douglas Rose: The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming)

Cyril M. Harris: What's In a Name
(amazon.co.uk / allconsuming) - origins of all the station names of the Underground and Docklands Light Railway.

Also:
More books coveted here.
Alan Moore's From Hell.

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[Russ]

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