The Great Map
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Great Maps
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Author : Jerry Brotton
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Great Maps written by Jerry Brotton and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Reference categories.
Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth. Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the "land of no sunshine" or the land of "people with no bowels"? In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Maps are not just geographical data: they reflect a particular ideological, historical, or cultural context. Providing a unique insight into how mapmakers have used maps to shape and depict their world view, this beautifully illustrated book traces the development of human development and culture through its maps. From the earliest rock carvings to the latest geospatial technology, from ancient medieval mappae mundi to the first road atlas, Great Maps explores in stunning photographic detail how maps have influenced and reflected our world throughout history.
The Great Map
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Author : William Roy
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2007
The Great Map written by William Roy and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Scotland categories.
William Roy surveyed the whole of Scotland, producing an immensely detailed map of the country after the Jacobite rising of 1745. Casebound in real cloth within a protective slip case, this work reproduces the complete map, in 346 pages. It also includes introductory essays and 346 pages of colour mapping.
Mapping The Great Game
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Author : Riaz Dean
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2020-01-19
Mapping The Great Game written by Riaz Dean and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-19 with History categories.
The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography. In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides. The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India began in the 18th century with the aim of creating a detailed map of the subcontinent. Under the leadership of George Everest—whose name was later bestowed to the world’s tallest mountain—the it mapped the Great Arc running from the country’s southern tip to the Himalayas. Much of the work was done by Indian explorers known as Pundits. They were the first to reveal the mysteries of the forbidden city of Lhasa, and discover the true course of Tibet’s mighty Tsangpo River. These explorers performed essential information gathering for the British Empire and filled in large portions of the map of Asia. Their adventurous exploits are vividly recounted in Mapping the Great Game.
The Great Map Of Mankind
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Author : Peter James Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1982
The Great Map Of Mankind written by Peter James Marshall and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.
This is a history, revealed through a variety of travel accounts, of British perceptions of the exotic peoples and lands of Asia, North America, West Africa, and the Pacific who became well-known during that great age of exploration, the period from the late 17th century to the end of the 18th century.
Great Map Mysteries
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Author : Susan Julio
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 1997
Great Map Mysteries written by Susan Julio and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Education categories.
This book is designed to help students learn the basic skills of map reading. It provides 18 lessons which can be used in a traditional classroom setting or in a cooperative learning environment.
Great City Maps
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Author : DK
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Great City Maps written by DK and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with History categories.
Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities around the globe. Dive into the detail of each beautiful map and learn about interesting features with visual tours of the maps' highlights - such as the Old London Bridge of London in 1572 and the orchards of Brooklyn in 1767 New York. Cities are centres of civilisation and the way their maps portray them reflects their politics, religion, and culture. See how certain cities, and cartographic techniques, changed over time. More than just a bird's-eye-view, this unputdownable book tells the tales behind the cities from the hubs of ancient peoples to modern mega-cities, and profiles the iconic cartographers and artists who created each map. Perfect for history, geography, and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.
Great City Maps
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-01
Great City Maps written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with categories.
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.
Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin
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Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2005-03-07
Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin written by Richard V. Francaviglia and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-07 with History categories.
The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin gradually emerged from its “cartographic silence” as terra incognita and how this fascinating process both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia’s interdisciplinary account of the mapping of the Great Basin combines a chronicle of the exploration of the region with a history of the art and science of cartography and of the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which maps are created. It also offers a compelling, wide-ranging discussion that combines a description of the daunting physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and through the medium of maps. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin continues Francaviglia’s insightful, richly nuanced meditation on the Great Basin landscape that began in Believing in Place.
A History Of The World In 12 Maps
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Author : Jerry Brotton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-28
A History Of The World In 12 Maps written by Jerry Brotton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with History categories.
A New York Times Bestseller “Maps allow the armchair traveler to roam the world, the diplomat to argue his points, the ruler to administer his country, the warrior to plan his campaigns and the propagandist to boost his cause… rich and beautiful.” – Wall Street Journal Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the almost mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Brotton shows how each of his maps both influenced and reflected contemporary events and how, by considering it in all its nuances and omissions, we can better understand the world that produced it. Although the way we map our surroundings is more precise than ever before, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been. Readers of this beautifully illustrated and masterfully argued book will never look at a map in quite the same way again. “A fascinating and panoramic new history of the cartographer’s art.” – The Guardian “The intellectual background to these images is conveyed with beguiling erudition…. There is nothing more subversive than a map.” – The Spectator “A mesmerizing and beautifully illustrated book.” —The Telegraph