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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...
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
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Smithsonian America: The Atlas is a superb depiction of the history of North America and the United States told through extensive photographs and maps, both old and new. In collaboration with experts from the Smithsonian Institution, every corner of the continent is explored in detail--from the early people who first settled the land thousands of years ago to the diversity of the present day. This edition also includes 32 pages of bonus material,...
10) Treasure map
Author
Series
Adventure friends (Scholastic Acorn) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clarke is a girl who has just moved in and she is very serious about adventure; Miguel knows the neighborhood and is eager to meet new people and have adventures--so with walkie-talkies, a compass, paper, and colored pencils they set out to explore and draw an "adventure map"--or perhaps it is a treasure map as Miguel insists.
Grab your compass and join the Adventure Friends -- Miguel and Clarke -- in this full-color early reader series! Pick a book....
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.
12) 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
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable--and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way.
16) 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
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
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...
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