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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
Harper Design, an imprint of HaprCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Beautiful, unique, and packed with intricate and brilliant details, Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps showcases this visual artist's rare talent as never before in a gorgeous edition sure to be treasured by fans. Along with eight exquisite and unexpected conceptual atlases, he has imagined The Music Map, The Map of YouTube, The Corporate World Map, and many more. An additional fifty mini-maps of the world display a diverse list of data, such as...
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...
8) Maps
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simply describes how to use a map in easy-to-read text that incorporates phonics instruction.
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.
10) Maps and plans
Author
Series
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
14) Mapmaker
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Tanya and Connor stumble on a deadly secret while working at the digital mapmaking company where Tanya's dead father once worked.
15) The map trap
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alton Ziegler loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this celebration of the power of imagination, a creative girl on a mission to bring something new to the world becomes a storyteller and inventor of intricately detailed maps. Rose's heart is set on discovering something that's never been found. She just doesn't know where to find it. So she sets off on a wondrous journey, bounding from one spectacular world to the next. Her only guides are a set of maps drawn from her own imagination and her heart's...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The summer before starting middle school, when eleven-year-old Goldenrod Moram sets out to make a very accurate map of the forest behind her home, she discovers a band of troublemakers, a mysterious old lady, and the ghost of her explorer idol.
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