Maps - Finding Our Place in the Worle

Klappentext A companion volume to the ambitious exhibition on the history of maps, this book challenges readers to stretch conventional thought about what constitutes a map and how many different ways there are to understand graphically the environment in which we live. Presents an examination of the use of maps for wayfinding. This book considers maps whose makers employed the smallest of scales to envision the broadest of human stages. It looks at maps that are at the opposite end of the scale from cosmological and world maps. It shows ways in which certain maps can be linked to particular events in history.

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• Authors: Akerman, James R. Akerman, James R Akerman, James R. Akerman, Akerman James R., Robert W Karrow, Robert W. Karrow, Karrow Robert W., John Mccarter
• Assisted by: James Akerman (Editor), James R. Akerman (Editor), Robert W. Karrow (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2007
• EAN: 9780226010755
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01075-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 285 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History: specific events & topics, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, HISTORY / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Cartography, map-making & projections, History: specific events and topics, Cartography, map-making and projections, Geographical maps (specialist), Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Geographical maps: specialist / thematic maps