The Mapmakers - Folio Society edition

The Mapmakers

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The Mapmakers - Folio Society edition
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The Mapmakers
Folio Society
Science & Nature

The Mapmakers

John Noble Wilford
Edition year 2016
Binding Cloth
Weight 1.5 Kg
Pages 512
Dimensions 10 × 6¼ in

Edition details

The Mapmakers by John Noble Wilford. Introduced by Simon Garfield. Frontispiece and 32 pages of colour plates. Printed endpapers. Quarter-bound in cloth with Modigliani paper sides. 512pp. 10x6¼in.

About the book

The Mapmakers explores the history of cartography and the people who attempted to represent the world through maps. The book traces developments in surveying, navigation and geographical knowledge while showing how maps reflected political ambition, exploration and changing ideas about the earth. It presents mapmaking as both a scientific and artistic achievement.

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