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To the ends of the earth: 100 maps that changed the world

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cincinnati David & Charles 2006Description: 192 pISBN:
  • 9780715325391
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 912.09 H2T6
Summary: This thought-provoking history of cartography focuses on 100 key maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making itself, or directly influenced the path of history. It reveals how different peoples have observed and represented their world through the ages, and explores the human fascination with maps. It addresses how maps have been used for navigation, exploration, wartime propaganda and planning, and to project national goals. A team of academic experts in the history of cartography provides a scholarly and revealing text that addresses the key questions of how, why and, crucially, if these maps have changed the world. One hundred of the worlds most beautiful and fascinating maps provide the illustrations. The result is a definitive, fact-packed, fresh and lively study that readers, no matter how much or how little they may know about the subject already, will find informative, insightful and absorbing.
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This thought-provoking history of cartography focuses on 100 key maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making itself, or directly influenced the path of history. It reveals how different peoples have observed and represented their world through the ages, and explores the human fascination with maps. It addresses how maps have been used for navigation, exploration, wartime propaganda and planning, and to project national goals. A team of academic experts in the history of cartography provides a scholarly and revealing text that addresses the key questions of how, why and, crucially, if these maps have changed the world. One hundred of the worlds most beautiful and fascinating maps provide the illustrations. The result is a definitive, fact-packed, fresh and lively study that readers, no matter how much or how little they may know about the subject already, will find informative, insightful and absorbing.

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