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On The Map
Author | : Simon Garfield |
Publsiher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781847658555 |
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Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
The Map Thief
Author | : Heather Terrell |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345494696 |
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Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired attorney Mara Coyne, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth: The map is more valuable than anyone has even imagined, and her client’s motives are more sinister than she suspected. From Hong Kong to the Italian countryside, from Lisbon to the remote reaches of Communist China, and literally around the world on the ships of fifteenth-century explorers, Heather Terrell takes readers on an adventure of epic proportions.
Servants of the Map Stories
Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2003-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393069556 |
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"Gemlike stories that sparkle with intelligence and fire." —O, The Oprah Magazine A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this wonderfully imagined collection from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Book Award, explores the crossroads of science and desire. Servants of the Map sweeps through two centuries, from the Western Himalayas to the Adirondacks, conjuring characters that travel through the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion. As we move through these richly layered tales, Andrea Barrett weaves subtle connections among the stories within this collection and characters in her earlier works.
A Compendious Treatise on the Use of the Globes and of Maps
Author | : John Lathrop |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1812 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062193670 |
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O level Mathematics Challenging Drill Questions Concise Yellowreef
Author | : Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes |
Publsiher | : Yellowreef Limited |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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• questions from top schools since 2003 • complete answer keys • topical order to facilitate drilling • complete and true encyclopedia of question-types • comprehensive “trick” questions revealed • tendency towards carelessness is greatly reduced • complete edition and concise edition eBooks available
Explanatory Text to Accompany the Geologic Map of the United States
Author | : Philip B. King,Helen M. Beikman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : UCR:31210020769731 |
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The Impact of Cognitive Map reading Tasks on the Ability to Navigate with a Map
Author | : Amy Lobben |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Map reading |
ISBN | : MSU:31293020581819 |
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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author | : Ingrid Baumgärtner,Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby,Katrin Kogman-Appel |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110588774 |
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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.