The map book /
"Simply organized as a progression through time, The Map Book collects some 175 maps that span four millennia - from the famed prehistoric Bedolina (Italy) incision in rock from around 1500 B.C. to the most modern, digitally enhanced rendering. Many of the maps are beautiful works of art in the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | [Delray Beach, Fla.] : Levenger Press ; New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005. |
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| Summary: | "Simply organized as a progression through time, The Map Book collects some 175 maps that span four millennia - from the famed prehistoric Bedolina (Italy) incision in rock from around 1500 B.C. to the most modern, digitally enhanced rendering. Many of the maps are beautiful works of art in their own right. From Europe to the Americas, Africa to Asia, north to south, there are maps of oceans and continents charted by heroic adventurers sailing into the unknown, as accounts spread of new discoveries, shadowy continents begin to appear on the margins of the world, often labeled 'unknown lands.' Other maps had a more practical use: some demarcated national boundaries or individual plots of land; military plans depicted enemy positions; propaganda treatises showed one country or faction at an advantage over others." "So much history resides in each map - cultural, mythological, navigational - expressing the unlimited extent of human imagination. This is captured in the accompanying texts - mini essays by leading map historians - that are as vivid and insightful as the maps themselves."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2005. |
| Physical Description: | 360 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 357) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0802714749 |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |