Cartography

Written from a digital humanities perspective, this book combines historical sources, maps, and a walking cartography to create new perspectives on the nineteenth-century history of Lagos, West Africa's most populous city. What traces do people leave in...

A refreshing source of ideas to help you explore all aspects of maps, this book encourages you to travel through the exciting world of cartography. It features 52 fun and creative map-related activities set into weekly artistic exercises. Travel through...

From iconic landmarks to hidden shortcuts, GET LOST! takes your eyes on a journey and allows readers to explore the lands through the eyes of Illustrators. Before GPS systems and Google Maps were invented, folded paper maps and guidebooks were always our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130789Author Laura KurganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 186mm * 17mm

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593435489Author Aurora LipperFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Z KidsPublisher Random House USA Inc

On October 23, 1852, Professor Augustus De Morgan wrote a letter to a colleague, unaware that he was launching one of the most famous mathematical conundrums in history--one that would confound thousands of puzzlers for more than a century. This is the...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a...

What is a 'drink map'? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically to shock and shame people into drinking less. This book explores how drink maps of particular cities...

The twenty intriguing journeys and routes featured in this book range from distances of a few miles to great adventures across land, sea, air and space. Some describe the route that a traveller followed, some are the results of exploration and others...

A timely, large-format collection of fine art maps from Adam Dant, looking at the fractious world of politics. Adam Dant's Political Maps is an all-new collection of this highly regarded artist's intricate, absorbing and beautiful maps, this time...

A is for Atlas: Wonders of Maps and Mapping is a fascinating exploration of maps, charts, atlases and globes. Through a series of unique themes, this book reveals stories about objects produced centuries apart, showing the very different worlds in which ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998547749Author Anita GraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Locate PressPublisher Locate PressWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 14mm

Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its farms and moors, its motorways and waterways, highlands and beaches. This anthology brings together...

The fifth edition of this textbook has been completely revised and significantly extended in order to reflect the revolution of geodetic technologies, methods and applications during the last decade. The Global Geodetic Observing System established by...

In his debut book, author Simon M. Miles offers an entirely new perspective on one of the most compelling mysteries of our time. He documents an investigation over more than twenty years into the "affair of Rennes", a tangle of puzzles that has...

An updated edition of the classic, much praised history of cartography. It traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439167182Author Ken JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Why is today's world map filled with uniform states separated by linear boundaries? The answer to this question is central to our understanding of international politics, but the question is at the same time much more complex - and more revealing - than...

Italy's northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers-all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic...

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints,...

"[M]arvelous and compelling..." - John Milloy, author of The Plains Cree and A National Crime As the first inland surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, Philip Turnor stands tall among the explorers and mapmakers of Canada. Accompanied by Cree guides...

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece-the Venetian mappa mundi-that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is...

Mapping Medieval Geographies explores the ways in which geographical knowledge, ideas and traditions were formed in Europe during the Middle Ages. Leading scholars reveal the connections between Islamic, Christian, Biblical and Classical geographical...

Naval operations and warfare were, and remain, a key element for mapping. Maps were vital for commanders in drawing up plans of attack, and their detail and usefulness have increased over the centuries as the science of mapping has developed. This...

An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the...

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734464306Author Scott MadryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Locate PressPublisher Locate PressWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 15mm

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands,...

In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional, "positivist" model of cartography, replacing it with one that is grounded in an...

One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most...

Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226837888Author Jeremy BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

An original look at the intersection of map making and artistic creation.While many modern artists have been fascinated by the formal richness, the conceptual foundations, and the social significance of maps, cartographers have long used the techniques...

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641165747Author Caroline RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Las Vegas has a long and rich history that extends far beyond the clichEs of 'sin city', the Mafia, Elvis, or mindless urban sprawl. This book provides a series of maps with accompanying text that goes beyond the usual tales of the city and illustrates...

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious...

This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox's book is divided into the three sections of the title. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Regional Book) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780870138072Author David I. MacleodFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint Michigan State University...