TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laffon,Caroline
AU  - Laffon,Martine
TI  - Mapping the world: stories of geography 
SN  - 1554075254
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Richmond Hill, Ont.
PB  - Firefly Books
KW  - Cartographers
KW  - History
KW  - Cartography
KW  - Geography
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - 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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