Imperial China: The Definitive Visual History

After a 5 year delay due to illness and Covid restrictions we are finally heading off to a major tour of China this spring. This book and the great travel guides from DK gives us lots of context. As with all these large scale DK books it’s beautifully printed and well worth the money.

As usual with DK, these are excellent books for children

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Was a present they loved it

It's a marvellous book -- and mostly in the commendable tradition of DK. But I am SHOCKED not to find a SINGLE map! Impossible to understand as maps would be absolutely necessary in a comprehensive survey of 5+ millennia of history. Especially as DK themselves describe the book as -The Definitive Visual History of Imperial China.If maps are not an integral and indispensable part of any VISUAL history -- what are they?