{"id":1592,"date":"2016-04-19T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T20:06:09","slug":"mapping-the-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/mapping-the-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mapping-the-airways\"<\/a>Out this month from Amberley Publishing<\/a>:\u00a0Mapping the Airways<\/a>.<\/em> “Drawing on fascinating and unique material from the British Airways archive, curator Paul Jarvis focuses on the beautiful map artwork used over nearly 100 years of history to chart our voyages through the skies\u2014from early adverts to twenty-first-century on-board moving maps\u2014and the vital maps and charts used by pilots and navigators.” (The paperback edition<\/a> seems to be\u00a0delayed until June on\u00a0the U.S. Amazon store, though\u00a0you can still get the Kindle version<\/a>.) \u00a0Here’s a short piece about the book<\/a> in the trade journal\u00a0Advance<\/em>.\u00a0[Tony Campbell<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out this month from Amberley Publishing:\u00a0Mapping the Airways. “Drawing on fascinating and unique material from the British Airways archive, curator Paul Jarvis focuses on the beautiful map artwork used over nearly 100 years of history… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-aviation","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/2016-holiday-gift-guide-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":1592,"position":0},"title":"2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Books","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 November 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year at about this time I post a gift guide that lists some of the noteworthy books about maps that have been published this year. 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