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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews...
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the story of the exploration and birth of America which is told through the hand-colored maps and engravings of the period.
The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period. Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities of exploration, while guiding armies...
Author
Publisher
Viking Studio
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A collection of unusual maps is complemented by interesting statistics and social commentary, in a volume that includes a map of Thomas More's Utopia and imaginings of what the globe might look like if its lands and oceans were inverted.
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Uses the map as a metaphor to explore writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, comparing the way a writer leads a reader through the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Describes the exploration and mapping of the American West from prehistoric Indian maps through the geographical information gathered by the Spanish explorers, the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike, and the mapping done by the U.S. Army and the railroad companies.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the difficulties encountered by George Davidson and others as they attempted to create nautical charts to complete the U.S. Coast Survey of the West Coast in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Assembled by the same team responsible for A History of America in 100 Maps by Susan Schulten, this book offers a selection of 100 maps, all presented in full color, that shaped the course of World War II. Alongside the maps, historian Jeremy Black offers context and explanations drawing on his long career thinking about war and maps. World War II was a uniquely difficult war to map: it was fought across an unprecedented geographical range, through...
Author
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this one-of-a-kind travel book, William L. Fox navigates us through the stunning void of the Great Basin and the neurophysiological processes by which we make sense of the landscape with art, architecture, and narrative."--Jacket
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