On the Map

On the Map PDF Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Avery
ISBN: 1592407803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

Book Description
Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.

Off the Map

Off the Map PDF Author: Chellis Glendinning
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
"As their dreamlike journey unfolds, Chellis and Snowflake strive to understand the results of their ancestors' fatal encounter - hers, the "people of empire"; his, "the colonized" - weaving together current events with their childhood memories and the forces of history to reveal the extent of imperialism's legacy - and to find a way "off the map," to a more hopeful future for us all."--BOOK JACKET.

Unruly Places

Unruly Places PDF Author: Alastair Bonnett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054410157X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.

Mapping the Silk Road

Mapping the Silk Road PDF Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Nebenzahl documents the mapping and discovery of West Asia and the trade routes of the Silk Road. The book includes rare maps spanning 2,000 years of cartographic history.

The Writer's Map

The Writer's Map PDF Author: Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226596631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. " -- Publisher's description

Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With Descriptive Sketches of the Natural History of the North American Regions. By James Wilson. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing Remarks on a Late Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Vindication of Richard Hakluyt. Illustrated by a Map and Nine Engravings

Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. With Descriptive Sketches of the Natural History of the North American Regions. By James Wilson. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing Remarks on a Late Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Vindication of Richard Hakluyt. Illustrated by a Map and Nine Engravings PDF Author: Patrick Fraser Tytler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description

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