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The Road To There

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Author : Val Ross
language : en
Publisher: Tundra Books
Release Date : 2009-06-05

The Road To There written by Val Ross and has been published by Tundra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children’s non-fiction Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12 Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year 2003 winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award Seal Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-fiction Included on VOYA’s ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children’s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category Road maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them. Here are some of the unexpected stories of history’s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London’s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars. With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.

The Mapmakers

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Author : John Noble Wilford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

The Mapmakers written by John Noble Wilford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

Wilford tells the dramatic story of how, through the ages, technology - compasses, sextants, theodolites, cameras, sonar, aeroplanes, radar, computers, seismic probes, lasers, satellites - has transformed the way we see and measure our world.

The Mapmakers

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Author : John Noble Wilford
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2001-12-04

The Mapmakers written by John Noble Wilford and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-04 with Technology & Engineering categories.

In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, through to the expeditions of Columbus and Magellan, John Noble Wilford chronicles the exploits of the great pioneers of mapmaking. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers—including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West—whose achievements shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity.

Tooley S Dictionary Of Mapmakers

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Author : Ronald Vere Tooley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Tooley S Dictionary Of Mapmakers written by Ronald Vere Tooley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Tooley S Dictionary Of Mapmakers

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Tooley S Dictionary Of Mapmakers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Technology & Engineering categories.

The Mapmaker S War

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Author : Ronlyn Domingue
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-03-18

The Mapmaker S War written by Ronlyn Domingue and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Fiction categories.

After being given an apprenticeship to chart her entire kingdom, young Aoife encounters a secretive culture of wealthy and peaceful people who she protects by enduring a harrowing exile.

The Mapmakers Quest

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Author : David Buisseret
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2003-05-22

The Mapmakers Quest written by David Buisseret and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-22 with History categories.

An eminent historian of cartography offers this Iavishly illustrated account of the mapmaking revolution in Renaissance Europe. 78 halftones. 12 color plates.

The Mapmaker S Children

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Author : Sarah McCoy
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2015-05-05

The Mapmaker S Children written by Sarah McCoy and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-05 with Fiction categories.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Baker's Daughter and Marilla of Green Gables, a story of family, love, and courage When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can’t bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah faces difficult sacrifices that could put all she loves in peril. Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in the root cellar—the remains of an Underground Railroad doll with an extraordinary past of secret messages, danger and deliverance. Ingeniously plotted to a riveting end, Sarah and Eden’s woven lives connect the past to the present, forcing each of them to define courage, family, love, and legacy in a new way.

Mapmakers Of The Sixteenth Century And Their Maps

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Author : Robert W. Karrow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Mapmakers Of The Sixteenth Century And Their Maps written by Robert W. Karrow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Cartographers categories.

Living As Mapmakers

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Author : Debbie Pushor
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-21

Living As Mapmakers written by Debbie Pushor and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-21 with Education categories.

While teacher knowledge is well-researched and conceptualized, parent knowledge remains largely unstudied. In response, this book details Pushor’s conceptualization of parent knowledge, the unique knowledge that arises from the lived experiences of being a parent, knowledge that is relational, bodied and embodied, intuitive, intimate, and uncertain. Drawing from her narrative inquiry into parent knowledge, Pushor shares and unpacks the stories of one participant as a way to provide a close up view of the parent knowledge a First Nations father held and used in living with and educating his children. Twelve teachers and parents then put forward their individual and contextual experiences immersed in explorations and use of parent knowledge, attending to the questions, How can what parents know enhance schooling experiences for children? How can parent knowledge, used alongside teacher knowledge, inform decisions made in schools and enhance curricular programming and outcomes for children? Using the metaphor of maps ... of mapmaking ... of living as mapmakers, this book is a storied account of the new practices in which parents and teachers engaged to enable parent knowledge to guide their work with children. It is an honest and vulnerable account of their journeys. The authors puzzle over the complexities and the successes of their work and the resulting impact on children, parents, and teachers. This book is an invitation to educators and parents to consider how to walk alongside one another, using both teacher and parent knowledge, for the benefit of children’s learning and wellbeing.