Stanford's

Explore the planet

Summering in Tashkent? Touring Bolivia on a bicycle? Head here first if you feel like exploring planet Earth but don't know where to start.

Stanford's has every conceivable map for almost every place on earth. From Papua New Guinea to a map of Tokyo via Madeira and Patagonia, this is the first port of call for most intrepid (and those more down-to-earth) travelers.

They also have travel books written by those whose footsteps you'll soon follow.

Set up in 1853 by Edward Stanford, this cool temple to travel first opened its doors in 1901 and stocks a massive range of maps, books and travel related goods. Even the basement floor of this flagship Long Acre store is covered in a large scale map of London.

Famous customers include David Livingstone, Scott of the Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton, Florence Nightingale, Ranulph Fiennes, Bill Bryson and Michael Palin. Even Sherlock Holmes bough a map here once....(Hound of the Baskervilles, in case you are wondering).

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