Publishing Spring 2021
It is with great excitement that Royal Museums Greenwich announces the list of publications planned for spring 2021. The list of books presented in this catalogue showcase world-leading expertise, fascinating stories and beautiful artworks inspired by the sea, ships, time and the stars. Every purchase supports the Museum to help fund research, exhibitions and acquisitions.
We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed producing them.
Royal Museums Greenwich Publishing team New titles
Stars Planets Pirates Royal Observatory Greenwich Royal Observatory Greenwich Fact and Fiction Illuminates series Illuminates series David Cordingly and John Falconer Dr Greg Brown Dr Emily Drabek-Maunder The image of the pirate is one There are approximately ten-billion- Since ancient times five planets that has never failed to capture trillion stars in the entire observable have been easily visible to the the imagination, but behind the Universe. That’s a little more than naked eye – Mercury, Venus, Mars, melodramatic portrayals of such the number of grains of sand on Jupiter and Saturn. This second villains as Long John Silver lies a all the beaches on Earth. But what book in the Royal Observatory much harsher reality. This book exactly are stars? How long do they Greenwich Illuminates series charts showcases the National Maritime live? How hot are they? The answers humanity’s understanding of our Museum’s vast collection of to these questions and many more neighbouring bodies, from the first artworks and artefacts, charting are answered in the first book in clues established by Galileo Galilei the history of piracy, the popular a series of accessible guides to in the 17th century, through to the portrayal of pirates in literature astronomy, written by astronomers vast amount we do (and much we and cinema, as well as examining at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. do not) know today. the tools of the pirate trade – maps and charts, flags and weapons.
February 2021 February 2021 ISBN 978-1-906367-81-7 ISBN 978-1-906367-82-4 March 2021 £9.99, paperback £9.99, paperback ISBN 978-1-906367-77-0 109 x 178 mm, 120pp 109 x 178 mm, 120pp £20.00, hardback Categories: Galaxies and Stars; Cosmology Categories: The Sun and Planets; Cosmology 230 x 170 mm, 176pp and the Universe and the Universe Categories: Sea Stories, Maritime History Thema code: PGS, PGK Thema code: PGS, PGK Thema code: FJN, NHTM New titles
About Time Too H.G. Wells on Mars The Solar System A Miscellany of Time The War of the Worlds A Cosmic Adventure! Royal Observatory Greenwich and Other Writings Elizabeth Avery Introduction by Robert Edwards How old is Earth? How fast can you Are you a super-massive space fan? think? How long is a light year and To mark NASA’s Mars Exploration Great! Let the Royal Observatory how short is a femtosecond? What Program in 2021, the Royal Greenwich take you on an does Greenwich Mean Time mean? Observatory Greenwich is adventure through the Solar System Can you tell the time with flowers? republishing H.G. Wells’s The and BEYOND! Do you want to find When did ‘time’ begin? War of the Worlds in its original out where you can find rubber- entirety, as serialised in Pearson’s duck-shaped space rocks, ice- This light-hearted, illustrated Magazine in 1907. This iconic text spewing volcanoes and raindrops miscellany answers these intriguing is accompanied by short stories, the size of mini marshmallows? questions and presents a whole articles and notices that inspired Fasten your seatbelts and prepare range of amazing facts and figures Wells before and during the writing to have your brain boggled by the which show the myriad influences of The War of the Worlds, offering amazing world of space science that time has on our daily lives. insight into his views on Martian life. and astronomy!
April 2021 May 2021 April 2021 ISBN 978-1-906367-66-4 ISBN 978-1-906367-83-1 ISBN 978-1-906367-78-7 £12.99, hardback £12.99, hardback £12.99, hardback 172 x 132 mm, 160pp 232 x 148 mm, 256pp 270 x 215 mm, 32pp 100 mono line drawings Categories: Science fiction/ Aliens/UFOs; Categories: Children’s/ teenage general Categories: Time Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose studies interest: Space, stars and the Solar System Thema code: PGZ Thema code: FLU, DSK Thema code: YNNZ Backlist
Royal Greenwich Stripes Map of the Moon ISBN 978-1-906-367-75–6 and Types ISBN 978-1-906367-60-2 £12.99 £20.00 of the Royal Navy ISBN 978-1-906367-71-8 £9.99
John Harrison Figureheads On The Line and the Quest ISBN 978-1-906367-63-3 ISBN 978-1-906367-61-9 £12.99 £8.99 for Longitude ISBN 978-1-906367-69-5 £12.99
The Armada Treasures of Cookery Portrait Royal Museums for Seamen ISBN 978-1-906367-68-8 Greenwich ISBN 978-1-906367-62-6 £12.99 £6.99 ISBN 978-0-948065-20-0 £20.00 Backlist
The Great ABC of the Sea At Sea ISBN 978-1-906367-79-4 Without Tea British Seaside £5.99 ISBN 978-0-948065-98-9 ISBN 978-1-906367-65-7 £25.00 £8.99
123 of the Sea ISBN 978-1-906367-80-0 £5.99
Pirate Gran Pirate Gran Pirate Gran ISBN 978-1-906376-07-7 and the Monsters Goes for Gold £6.99 ISBN 978-1-906367-55-8 ISBN 978-1-906367-48-0 £6.99 £6.99
Space Ted’s Royal Adventures Great Space Museums Sticker Activity Adventure Greenwich Book ISBN 978-1-906367-67-1 Kids’ Handbook £6.99 ISBN 978-1-906367-70-1 ISBN 978-1-906367-73-2 £6.99 £6.00 At the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Maritime Greenwich are the four world-class attractions of Royal Museums Greenwich – the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House and Cutty Sark.
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