Mapping the world : stories of geography /
Laffon, Caroline.
Mapping the world : stories of geography / Caroline & Martine Laffon. - Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2009. - 189 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 x 30 cm.
First published: Paris : Seuil, c2008, under title: Dessiner le monde : histoires de géographie
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187).
Introduction. Where are we? -- Step by step. Daydreaming about the world ; Tiny cosmos ; Holy places ; Navels of the world ; From one point to another ; Spheres and poles -- Geographers in the field. Finding one's bearings ; Scholarly calculations ; Every which way ; Blown by the winds ; On the road -- On a global scale. Landscape images ; Mountains and marvels ; The glory of the kingdom ; Lay of the land ; Following the flow ; Foreign seas -- Personal projections. Order and disorder ; Battle plans ; Organizing the resistance ; Power of persuasion ; Point of view ; Traveling the world ; The conquest of space. And beyond? ; Climbing to the sky ; Head in the clouds ; From the earth to the moon ; Views from above.
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Cartographers--History.
Cartography--History.
Geography--History--Pictorial works.
Geography--History.
Mapping the world : stories of geography / Caroline & Martine Laffon. - Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2009. - 189 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 x 30 cm.
First published: Paris : Seuil, c2008, under title: Dessiner le monde : histoires de géographie
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187).
Introduction. Where are we? -- Step by step. Daydreaming about the world ; Tiny cosmos ; Holy places ; Navels of the world ; From one point to another ; Spheres and poles -- Geographers in the field. Finding one's bearings ; Scholarly calculations ; Every which way ; Blown by the winds ; On the road -- On a global scale. Landscape images ; Mountains and marvels ; The glory of the kingdom ; Lay of the land ; Following the flow ; Foreign seas -- Personal projections. Order and disorder ; Battle plans ; Organizing the resistance ; Power of persuasion ; Point of view ; Traveling the world ; The conquest of space. And beyond? ; Climbing to the sky ; Head in the clouds ; From the earth to the moon ; Views from above.
1554075254 9781554075256
2010474762
GBA965161 bnb
20099012456 015302664 Uk
Cartographers--History.
Cartography--History.
Geography--History--Pictorial works.
Geography--History.