I have a great fondness for maps. I buy a map whenever I travel anywhere and I keep it, and I can browse through maps like you can browse through magazines, letting the imagination wander over this ...

GEOLOGISTS used to ask themselves a riddle: How did the rounded outlines of the chalk denes and downs come to show the forms characteristic of sculpture by streams, since water runs straight through ...

The Hindu Kush mountains divide Afghanistan and make up a section of the Himalayas. They’re some of the most beautiful and historic landscapes in the world. For example, Kabul sits in the foothills of ...

Swathes of England’s landscape were shaped by the immense block of chalk that has lain beneath it for 100 million years. For a long time, even geologists paid it little heed – but now its secrets and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Gallatin River Gallery in Big Sky is featuring the fresh chalk pastel landscapes of Wendy ...

German landscapes have regularly inspired artists to produce great works - from the rugged chalk cliff coastline of Rügen to the colorfully glowing Alps in the south. The magical kaleidoscope of ...