The Mapmakers

Informationen zum Autor John Noble Wilford Klappentext John Noble Wilford is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science correspondent for the New York Times. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and, since 1965, the New York Times. He lives in Manhattan and Bellport, Long Island. Zusammenfassung 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 earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planets of our solar system.

Product details

• Authors: John Noble Wilford, Wilford John Noble
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2002
• EAN: 9780712668125
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-6812-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, TRAVEL / Maps & Road Atlases, Cartography, map-making & projections, Cartography, map-making and projections, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Geographical reference works