Mapping the world : stories of geography / Caroline & Martine Laffon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2009.Description: 189 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 x 30 cmISBN:- 1554075254
- 9781554075256
- Dessiner le monde. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Oversize | 910.9 L163 | Available | 33111006493908 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An illustrated history of explorers' maps and the questions they answer.
More than the detailed representation of the geographical areas that their makers explored, maps reveal their makers' worldview as well as the myths, beliefs and legends of their times. By patiently creating maps, globes, charts and atlases, humans have sought to understand the universe and our place in it.
Mapping the World explores many rare and fascinating mapping artifacts, beginning with the first crude drawings and progressing to the stunning satellite views of today. Many of these examples will be unfamiliar even to serious cartographers and collectors. Thirty essays answer the questions map-makers have asked and reveal the roles their maps played in finding those answers.
Color reproductions of beautiful maps and charts include:
A Chinese map dated to 1229 that shows the city's bridges, pagodas and gardens A French 15th-century interpretation of the four corners of the Earth A painted silk map of the universe dating from the 1830s A modern "inverse" world map from Australia's perspective The cosmos as imagined in 1750.With 87 maps in all, Mapping the World will fascinate general readers, map collectors, geographers, cartographers and historians.
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.