Map: Exploring The World
Author(s): Phaidon Editors, Phaidon Editors
A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history - now in a compact new edition Map: Exploring the Worldbrings together more than 250 fascinating examples of maps from the birth of cartography to today's cutting-edge digital maps and reflects the many reasons people make maps - to find their way, to assert ownership, to encourage settlement, or to show political power. Carefully chosen by an international panel of experts and arranged to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, it features maps by the greatest names in cartography and lesser-known creators, as well as rare maps from indigenous cultures around the world.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Phaidon Press Limited
- : Phaidon Press Ltd
- : 0.3
- : 01 March 2020
- : ---length:- '24.5'width:- '21'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Phaidon Editors, Phaidon Editors
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 912.09
- : 352
- : HBTP1