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C.J. Schüler's latest book, The Wood That Built London, a history of the woodland that once covered much of South London, is published by Sandstone Press on 7 October 2021. His travelogue Along the Amber Route (also from Sandstone), hailed as ‘timely and powerful’ by the Financial Times on its publication in February 2020, was shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Award and longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.. He is the author of three illustrated histories of cartography: Mapping the World, Mapping the City, and Mapping the Sea and Stars, (Éditions Place des Victoires/Frechmann) and co-author of the best-selling Traveller’s Atlas, (Barron, 1999). His history of the Authors’ Club of London, Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies, was pu ...more

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Back in 2016, when I was researching Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors’ Club of London, 1891–2016 for the Club’s 125th anniversary, I was surprised that we didn’t have more correspondence from the early period. It turns out that the reason was that Algernon Rose, the Club’s Secretary from 1908 to 1934, took much of it home with him.

In February of last year, the Authors

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	The Wood That Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood 3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Along the Amber Route 3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in Your Lifetime by John Man, Chris Schuler, C.J. Schüler (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Traveller's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in Your Lifetime by Chris Schuler, John Man, Mary-Ann Gallagher 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Mer et les étoiles : La cartographie maritime et céleste de l'Antiquité à nos jours by C.J. Schüler (Goodreads Author), Denis-Armand Canal (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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