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The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd The Clans and Tartans Map of Scotland (folded): A
Book SynopsisA brand new clan map of Scotland with over 150 clans from Waverley Books. And on the back, illustrated in colour: Sir Walter Scott's role in the tartan revival; clan badges, crests, and mottoes; how to wear a belted plaid or "the great kilt"; what a clan really is and how the clan system worked; the origins of tartan; the natural vegetable and plant dyes used in tartan pre-1800; the purpose of `universal tartans'; what women's traditional dress looked like - the arisaid; associated clans of nearly 200 family names, or septs, plus the jargon of tartan - a glossary showing `weathered', `reproduction', `ancient', `modern', `dress', `hunting' and much more.
£7.99
The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd The Clans and Maps of Scotland Map (rolled in a
Book SynopsisA brand new clan map of Scotland with over 150 clans from Waverley Books. And on the back, illustrated in colour: Sir Walter Scott's role in the tartan revival; clan badges, crests, and mottoes; how to wear a belted plaid or "the great kilt"; what a clan really is and how the clan system worked; the origins of tartan; the natural vegetable and plant dyes used in tartan pre-1800; the purpose of `universal tartans'; what women's traditional dress looked like - the arisaid; associated clans of nearly 200 family names, or septs, plus the jargon of tartan - a glossary showing `weathered', `reproduction', `ancient', `modern', `dress', `hunting' and much more.
£13.38
Oxford University Press Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West
Book SynopsisJerusalem was the object of intense study and devotion throughout the Middle Ages. This collection of essays illuminates ways in which the city was represented by Christians in Western Europe, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps in manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats depictions of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre alongside those of Jerusalem as a whole. Authors draw on new research and a range of disciplinary perspectives to show how such depictions responded to developments in the West, as well as to the shifting political circumstances of Jerusalem and its wider region.One central theme is the relationship between text, image, and manuscript context, including discussion of images as scriptural exegesis and the place of schematic diagrams and plans in the presentation of knowledge. Another is the impact of trends in learning, such as the reception of Jewish scholarship, the move from monastic to university educaTrade Reviewoffers a stimulating technical vade mecum to current research and thinking about the interaction of the visual and the written, and their relationship within the religious culture of the medieval west. It is also very well served by a weight of clear, well-judged black-and-white illustrations and a collection of outstandingly well reproduced colour plates. * C J Tyerman, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Exhibition ; Adomnan's Plans in the Context of his Imagining 'the Most Famous City' ; The Exegetical Jerusalem: Maps and Plans for Ezekiel Chapters 40-48 ; The Imaginary Jerusalem of Nicholas of Lyra ; The 'Pictures' of Jerusalem in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 156 ; 'Ista est Jerusalem'. Intertextuality and Visual Exegesis in the Representation of Jerusalem in Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi and Werner Rolevinck's Fasciculus Temporum ; Studying with maps: Jerusalem and the Holy Land in two thirteenth century manuscripts ; Jerusalem under Siege: Marino Sanudo's Map of the Water Supply, 1320 ; An Illuminated English Guide to Pilgrimage in the Holy Land: Oxford, Queen's College, MS 357 ; Virtual Pilgrimages to Real Places: the Holy Landscapes
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Cambridge University Press The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
Book SynopsisHow did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and knowledge about them remained incomplete? And why did Renaissance rulers frequently commission large-scale painted maps of those territories when they knew that they would soon be proven obsolete by newer, more accurate information? The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy addresses these questions by bridging the disciplines of art history and the histories of science, cartography, and geography to closely examine surviving Italian painted maps that were commissioned during a period better known for its printed maps and atlases. Challenging the belief that maps are strictly neutral or technical markers of geographic progress, this well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic and propagandistic dimensions of these painted maps as products of the competitive and ambitious European court culture that produced them.Trade Review'Mark Rosen's The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context struck us as the most original, most thoughtfully grounded in theory, best researched, and most beautifully written of the manuscripts.' Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Prize CommitteeTable of Contents1. A lost world: maps as decoration before the sixteenth century; 2. Wonders unknown to the ancients: maps as decoration in the early to mid sixteenth century; 3. The Medici Guardaroba and its role in the Florentine cosmos; 4. 'All the things of heaven and earth together': the Guardaroba program; 5. Manufacturing a universe: the Medici Guardaroba and its cosmographers; 6. The maps of the Medici Guardaroba; 7. The Guardaroba and the late cinquecento map-cycle competition; Appendix: the curriculum of Don Stefano Buonsignori.
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Legare Street Press The The new Biblical Atlas and Scripture Gazetteer
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Rose Publishing (CA) Libro de Tablas Comparativas Biblicas Mapas Y
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Rose Publishing Deluxe Then & Now Bible Maps
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Brill The Enigma of the Origin of Portolan Charts: A Geodetic Analysis of the Hypothesis of a Medieval Origin
Book SynopsisThe sudden appearance of portolan charts, realistic nautical charts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, at the end of the thirteenth century is one of the most significant occurrences in the history of cartography. Using geodetic and statistical analysis techniques these charts are shown to be mosaics of partial charts that are considerably more accurate than has been assumed. Their accuracy exceeds medieval mapping capabilities. These sub-charts show a remarkably good agreement with the Mercator map projection. It is demonstrated that this map projection can only have been an intentional feature of the charts’ construction. Through geodetic analysis the author eliminates the possibility that the charts are original products of a medieval Mediterranean nautical culture, which until now they have been widely believed to be.Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgements xiv List of Illustrations xv 1. Introduction 1 1.1 The Origin of Portolan Charts: Research Challenges 1 1.2 Objective and Scope of this Book 4 1.3 Four ‘Pillars’ 5 2. Key Characteristics of Portolan Charts 11 2.1 Preamble 11 2.2 Distinguishing Characteristics 12 2.3 Disputed, Unclear and Unsatisfactorily Explained Aspects of Portolan Charts 19 3. Existing Hypotheses on the Origin and Construction Method of Portolan Charts 44 3.1 Scholarly Views on the Origins Debate 44 3.2 Ideas on Antique Origins 46 3.3 Hypotheses on Medieval Origins 52 3.4 Hypotheses on Portolan Chart Construction 59 3.5 Plane Charts versus Plane Charting 63 3.6 The Rotation Angle 76 3.7 Methodological Considerations 82 4. Cartometric Analysis; Methodology and Existing Research 86 4.1 Introduction 86 4.2 Quantitative Analysis Methods – A Conceptual Classification 92 4.3 Existing Cartometric Studies 103 4.4 Chart Selection 116 4.5 Cartometric Analysis Approach 119 5 Cartometric Analysis of Five Charts 133 5.1 Carte Pisane 133 5.2 Anonymous Genoese Chart (Ricc 3827) 138 5.3 The Ristow-Skelton No. 3 Chart (RS-3) 143 5.4 The Dulcert 1339 Chart 147 5.5 The Roselli 1466 Chart 148 5.6 Analysis of All Results 152 5.7 How Difficult is It to Make an Accurate Map? 195 5.8 Conclusions 197 6 The Relationship between Portolans and Portolan Charts 201 6.1 Introduction 201 6.2 Existing Research 202 6.3 A New Analysis of Lo Compasso de Navegare 216 6.4 Summary of the Analysis 276 6.5 Conclusions 283 7. Constraints on Shipping and Navigation in the Medieval Mediterranean 285 7.1 Introduction 285 7.2 The Physical Conditions of the Mediterranean 286 7.3 Medieval Ships 298 7.4 An Accuracy Model for Medieval Mediterranean Navigation 311 7.5 Conclusions 322 8. The Map Projection, Artificial or Intentional? 324 8.1 Introduction 324 8.2 A Priori Geodetic Objections 327 8.3 Existing Research 331 8.4 Conceptual Workflow and Test Criteria 335 8.5 Design Principles for a ‘Medieval’ Geodetic Network 337 8.6 Introductory Information on Geodetic Network Analysis 341 8.7 Network Definition and Analysis 348 8.8 Network Adjustment #1 (Accuracy) 351 8.9 Network Adjustment #2 (Shape) 358 8.10 Summary of the Geodetic Analysis 367 8.11 Accuracy Enhancement by Averaging in the Context of the History of Science 369 8.12 Conclusions from This Chapter 376 9. Navigational Practices in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 377 9.1 Drawing up the Interim Balance 377 9.2 Navigational Tools: Charts & Dividers, Needle & Star 379 9.3 The Toleta de Marteloio 382 9.4 The Mathematical Seaman 388 9.5 Early Time Measurement at Sea 391 9.6 Distance Measurement at Sea 392 9.7 Bearing Measurement – The Mariner’s Compass 397 9.8 Conclusions 413 10 An Arabic-Islamic Origin of Portolan Charts? 414 10.1 Introduction 414 10.2 Ibn Fadl’allah’s Map – The ‘Mamun Geography’ 415 10.3 Progress in Astro-geodetic Position Determination 417 10.4 Sezgin’s Hypothesized Construction Method of Portolan Charts 420 10.5 Further Arguments Presented by Sezgin for an Arabic-Islamic Origin of Portolan Charts 423 11. Conclusions 429 11.1 Recap of Conclusions by Chapter 429 11.2 The Four ‘Pillars’ of the Medieval Origin Hypothesis 433 11.3 Key Conclusions from this Study 437 12 Synthesis 439 12.1 Introduction 439 12.2 The Appearance of Portolan Charts in Medieval Italy 439 12.3 Remaining Issues 442 12.4 Recommendations for Further Research 450 Appendix A: The Historical Setting of the Emergence of Portolan Charts 453 A.1 The Medieval Mediterranean – Relevant Historical Aspects 453 A.2 The Awakening of Europe 454 A.3 The Italian Maritime Republics and Aragon 455 Appendix B: Calculation of the Length of a Rhumb Line 467 B.1 An Arbitrary Line on a Sphere 467 B.2 The Line in a Specified Direction on a Sphere 468 B.3 Mercator Sailing – How to Plot Sailed Distance on a Chart? 469 Appendix C: The Plane Charting Examples from Chapter 2 471 C.1 Dimensions of the Earth 471 C.2 The Routes from Livorno to Dellys 471 C.3 Four More Arbitrary Routes 479 Appendix D: Accuracy Model for Medieval Navigation 483 D.1 Introduction 483 D.2 Along-course Accuracy 484 D.3 Cross-course Accuracy 490 Appendix E: Cartometric Analysis Details 495 E.1 Coordinates of Identical Points 495 E.2 Preprocessing – Wind Rose Analysis 498 E.3 Main Cartometric Analysis 499 Appendix F: Reliability of the CALS7k.2 Archaeomagnetic Model 504 Appendix G: Is the Map Projection Accidental? A Statistical Analysis 508 G.1 Preamble 508 G.2 Statistical Basis 508 G.3 Test Results 510 G.4 Discussion 515 G.5 Conclusion 516 Appendix H: The Preface of the Liber de existencia riveriarum 517 Bibliography 520 Index 538
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Brill Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript
Book SynopsisIn Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.Trade Review“meticulous and well informed … Van Duzer and Dines have brought to light a cartographical corpus worthy indeed of further scholarly investigation.” Alessandro Scafi, The Warburg Institute, University of London. In: Imago Mundi Vol. 69, No. 1 (2017), pp. 119-120. “The book is sturdily and beautifully produced. The authors present their findings with admirable thoroughness and clarity, and with an expansive bibliography. … An exemplary work of scholarship that brings to light engaging new knowledge.” Robert E. Lerner, Northwestern University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 682-683.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. Description of Huntington HM 83 Chapter 2. The Historical Context: Lübeck in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 3. The Author Chapter 4. The Geographical Sections Excerpts from the Geographical Section Excerpts from the Section on Astronomy and Geography Links with the Rudimentum novitiorum Early Thematic Mapping The Maps in the Geographical Sections Chapter 5. The Treatise on the Apocalypse Late Fifteenth-Century German Apocalypticism The Apocalyptic Maps and Texts Proof of Circulation: Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 442 Helmst Other Attempts to Map the Apocalypse Conclusions Index
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Brill Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia'
Book SynopsisIn Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s 'Cosmographia', Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glorified the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and engendered the city book genre. Van Putten argues that Münster’s network of city view makers and contributors—from German princes and artists to Swiss woodcutters, draftsmen, and printers—expressed their local and national cultural identities in the views. The Cosmographia, and the city books it inspired, offer insights into the development of German and Swiss identity from 1550 to Switzerland’s independence from the empire in 1648.Trade Review"This book is a significant, original, and beautifully executed contribution to the study of Renaissance culture in the German lands. In its meticulous reconstruction of Münster’s networks, the milieux and ambitions of the artists who worked on the city views, and the fate of city views across different texts and multiple editions, it brings together scholarship on humanism, publishing, dynastic rivalries, Swiss independence, and penmanship (among other things) into a legible set of relationships. This research then forms the basis for impressive and persuasive analyses of the city views themselves, amply demonstrating the case for their importance in identity formation and representation." Christine R. Johnson, Washington University, St. Louis "Jasper van Putten's fine book should reach a wide audience of historians, in particular anyone with an interest in cultural geography and the increasingly popular topic of the history of maps and knowledge. Van Putten’s clear and logical text is deeply researched throughout and provides strong analysis about the cultural significance of city views as portraits, often linked to a regional ruler and to civic identity, particularly for imperial cities." Larry Silver, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction: Networked Nation 1 Sebastian Münster and His City Views 2 City Portraits 3 The Origins, Politics, and Economics of the City View 4 Bishops vs. Bürger 5 Ottheinrich’s View of Heidelberg 6 Depicting Swiss Pride 7 The Evolution of the City Book Conclusion: New World, New Order Tables Appendices Bibliography Index
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Brill Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents
Book SynopsisSince antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications Maryanne Cline Horowitz 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary Contributions Louise Arizzoli Part 1: Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building Eurocentrism Michael Wintle 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity Maryanne Cline Horowitz Part 2: Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah Chet Van Duzer 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images Paul H.D. Kaplan Part 3: Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa Hilary Anne Haakenson 8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons Elisa Antonietta Daniele Part 4: Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio Elizabeth Horodowich 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum Mark Rosen 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century Ann Rosalind Jones Part 5: Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century 12 The Visible Church – The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern Germany Marion Romberg 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race to Modernity Benjamin Schmidt 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876–1959), an American in Paris Louise Arizzoli 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds Bronwen Wilson Index Nominum
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Brill Maps in Newspapers: Approaches of Study and Practices in Portraying War since 19th Century
Book SynopsisMaps in newspapers generated many discussions among cartographers and geographers working from different approaches and theoretical backgrounds. This work examines these maps from a historiographical as well as a historical perspective. It considers three main questions, namely how maps in the press should be conceptualized, how cartographic images in newspapers have been studied, and how these images changed over time. In order to provide a perspective on the origins, development, and impact of war maps in the press, we will explore maps representing three geopolitical conflicts for Brazilian audiences: The War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), the World War II (1939–1945) and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas (1994–2010). By exploring maps on these wars, we will identify specific cartographic practices used in this genre as well as the connections that this mode has with other types of map production and consumption.
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Brill Maps of the Moon: Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age
Book SynopsisWhen does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they challenge established notions of what a map is, how it functions, what its purposes are, and what kind of power it embodies and performs. The publication also shows how terrestrial cartography has shaped the history of lunar mapping since the seventeenth century, through visual and nomenclature conventions, the cultural currency of maps, mapmakers’ social standing, and data-gathering and projection practices. It further demonstrates that lunar cartography has also been organized by an internal principle that is born of the fundamental problem of how to create static map spaces capable of representing a referent that is constantly changing to our eyes, as is the visible face of the moon. It is suggested that moon maps may be classed in three broad categories, according to the kinds of solutions for this representational problem that have been devised over the last 400 years.Table of ContentsMaps of the Moon: Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age Thomás A. S. Haddad Abstract Keywords Introduction: Bringing the History of Cartography to the History of Moon Maps 1 Approaches to the Specificity of Moon Maps 2 Making It Visible: Bringing the Moon Down to the Earth 3 Making It Legible: Taking the Earth Up to the Moon 4 Time Concreted 5 Time Abstracted 6 Time Eliminated Concluding Remarks: the Moon Is Dead, Long Live the Moon Bibliography
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Brill Mapping Mountains
Book SynopsisMountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.Table of ContentsMapping Mountains Abstract Keywords Introduction 1 The Traditional Historiography and its Challengers 1.1 Just What is a Mountain Anyway? 1.2 Traditional Historiography 1.3 Challenging Traditional Historiography 1.4 A Rather Brief Overview of Contemporary Cartographic Relief Presentation 2 Paradise and Pilgrimage 3 Colonial and Postcolonial Peaks 4 Profiles and Panoramas 5 Touristed Itineraries Concluding Remarks Acknowledgements
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Brill Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World, 1100-1500: Divergent Traditions
Book SynopsisMedieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic cultures are both notable for the wealth and diversity of their geographical literature, yet to date there has been relatively little attempt to compare medieval Christian and Islamic mapping traditions in a detailed manner. Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of the level of interaction between the two traditions across a range of map genres, including world and regional maps, maps of the seven climes, and celestial cartography. Through a mixture of synthesis and case study, the volume makes the case for significant but limited cultural transfer. Contributors are: Elly Dekker; Jean-Charles Ducène; Alfred Hiatt; Yossef Rapoport; Stefan Schröder; Emmanuelle Vagnon.Trade Review"This compact and informative edited volume of six chapters contributes greatly to our understanding of comparative cartography in the later Middle Ages." - Zayde Antrim, in: Der Islam, vol. 99, no. 2 (2022).Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World Alfred Hiatt 1 The Transmission of Theoretical Geography: Maps of the Climata and the Reception of De causis Proprietatum Elementorum Alfred Hiatt 2 Ptolemy’s Geography in the Arabic-Islamic Context Jean-Charles Ducène 3 The Transmission of Celestial Cartography from the Arabic-Islamic World to Europe: The Celestial Maps in MS Schoenberg ljs 057 Elly Dekker 4 Geography at the Crossroads: The Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq of al-Idrīsī Alfred Hiatt 5 Transitional” or “Transcultural” Maps? The Function and Impact of Arabic-Islamic Elements in Latin Christian Cartography of the Early Fourteenth Century Stefan Schröder 6 Pluricultural Sources of the Catalan Atlas Emmanuelle Vagnon Conclusion: Divergent Traditions Alfred Hiatt and Yossef Rapoport Bibliography Index
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Brill Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of
Book SynopsisDrawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car ‘flight’ and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.Table of ContentsMapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps Jordana Dym Abstract Keywords Introduction 1 Travel Writing and Mapping: Definitions and Sources 2 Historiography 3 Before the Line: Points and Lists 4 Early Journey Maps: From Implicit to Explicit Lines 5 Conventions of the Journey Map: Lines, Space and Time 6 Journey Maps in the Eighteenth Century: Up and Down the Line 7 Journey Maps in the Steam Age: Retracings, Erasure and Colored Lines 8 The Leap from the Page to the Screen Conclusion Acknowledgments References
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Brill Sketch Maps: Drawing the Geographical Imagination
Book SynopsisSketch maps, despite their intuitive, informal appearance and seemingly naïve use, are intellectual devices and efficient tools that shape the geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. By delineating the silhouettes of nations, we express territorial knowledge and geopolitical stereotypes that, although shaped at school from an early age, organized the way we interact with the world. why do we still need to draw maps? What is behind our common and naturalized practice of sketching maps? This innovative book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate multiple conscious and unconscious knowledges about place and space.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Abstract Keywords Introduction: Maps and Geography 1 The (Carto)graphic (Im)pulse 2 Maps for Education: from Academies to Schools 3 Instructions to Promote Graphic Skills to Learn Geography 4 Figures, Silhouettes, Geometrical Shapes and Geopolitical Imagination Final Remarks: Open Questions to Be Answered Bibliography Index
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Brill Playing with Maps: Cartographic Games in Western Culture
Book SynopsisThis is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps. The authors are experts in their respective fields: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles. They bring an informed historical approach to the development and diffusion of these games up to about the beginning of the twentieth century, including games from Western Europe and America in all their intriguing variety. This book is an essential reference source for those wishing to research this neglected area, while those new to the field will be pleasantly surprised at the interesting and unusual maps that these games exploit.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Abstract Keywords 1 An Introduction to Cartographic Games 2 Playing with Maps on Cards 3 Cartographic Board Games 4 Dissected Maps to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography 5 Cartographic Games in the Material Culture References
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Rose Publishing (CA) Illustrated Bible Maps
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The History Press Ltd Birmingham A History in Maps
Book SynopsisFrom the exceptional town plans and maps contained within this unique volume emerges a social picture of Birmingham; a town quickly developing in size and population in the eighteenth century; along with the changes brought about by urbanisation. Land was bought up for development; hundreds of courts' were built to home the industrial workers pouring in from the many outlying villages. The many gardens, orchards and wide expanses of open space detailed on Wesley's 1731 plan of Birmingham were soon to be transformed into a sprawling mass of habitation. By 1765 Matthew Boulton, a leading entrepreneur and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, had built his famous Soho Manufactory on Handsworth Heath. Shortly afterwards, the town plans of Birmingham in the first quarter of the 1800s chart the arrival of the railway; a plan from 1832 is the last glimpse of the city before the arrival of the Grand Junction Railway and other main line stations. Accompanied with informative text and pictures o
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Historic Maps And Views Of The Old South: 24
Book SynopsisHistoric Maps and Views of the Old South?is the newest edition to Black Dog's Maps and Views series, and celebrates the history and beauty of some of America's most beloved cities with 24 removable, frameable maps and images that are perfect for the home, classroom, office or dorm.Dating from the 1800s through the present and ready for framing in a custom format or in a standard 11? x 14? frame, the stunning and fascinating images from The Granger Collection showcase the beauty and history of the Old South, including midnight paddleboat races on the Mississippi, moss-covered oaks framing the Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, a horse and carriage mmeandering on Bay Shell Road in Mobile, turn of the century Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and the gorgeous fountain in Forsyth Park, Savannah.Each image's original printing information is provided, as well as additional information that places it in historic context and further illuminates its qualities. Each image is exquisitely reproduced to show off its color and detail.The perfect gift for lovers of travel, history, or art.Other titles in this series include:Historic Maps and Views of San FranciscoHistoric Maps and Views of BostonHistoric Maps and Views of the ChicagoHistoric Maps and Views of New YorkHistoric Maps and Views of LondonHistoric Maps and Views of RomeHistoric Maps and View of Paris
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mapping Shakespeare: An exploration of
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s lifetime (1564–1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays. This beautiful new book looks at the England in which Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world. It also explores the locations of his plays and looks at the possible inspirations for these and why Shakespeare would have chosen to set his stories there.
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Cassini Publishing Ltd Carlisle and Solway Firth
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Batsford Ltd Victorian Maps of England: The county and city
Book SynopsisThe most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities – in large format – by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic history of Britain. Moule’s beautifully observed county and city maps present a minutely detailed record of 19th-century England. They were first published in collectable parts between 1830 and 1837 and then published together in the extensive 2-volume masterwork The English Counties Delineated. Moule celebrated the ‘ancientness’ and history of each county by including pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framed by cartouches, festoons and architectural ornament in a variety of historical styles. But underpinning this ancient vision is the hand of the British Industrial Revolution. Moule’s maps are deeply informed by the early technical work of the Ordnance Survey and record the unstoppable growth of the major cities and the unrelenting spread of the railways. The maps have remained influential and highly collectable as both originals and as reproductions. For the first time in a generation this new large-format volume, comprising 55 county and city maps, presents the main body of Thomas Moule’s work alongside his original detailed text descriptions. The book’s Introduction explains Moule’s career as a writer and antiquary and sets his celebrated maps in the context of the technical cartographic revolution in which they were published. The book examines the wide-ranging artistic and cultural influences exhibited as Moule combines accurate cartography with highly decorative architectural frames and evocative, Romantic, pastoral views of the England he so cherished. In doing so it positions him alongside his fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers, including George Virtue, William Westall, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, JMW Turner, Augustus Pugin, Edward Stanford and George Bradshaw.Trade Review'This large format volume is stupendous.' * Lets Talk! *'This large-format map book perfectly exemplifies Victorian artistry in its awe-inspiring meticulousness.' * Geographical *
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University of Hawai'i Press Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps
Book SynopsisFocuses on a group of maps from the MacLean Collection, one of the worldâs largest private collections of maps. The maps presented here are in a wide range of medium and formats. Each of the chapters examines one of the three principal regions of East Asia and begins with overall regional maps, then local city maps of Beijing, Edo, Yokohama and Kyoto.
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Bodleian Library Lost Maps of the Caliphs
Book SynopsisAbout a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Early astronomical ‘maps’ and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. Not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval map-making, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization.Trade Review'This study is the first overview of a masterpiece of medieval mapmaking and Islamic civilisation.' * Apollo *“With its focus on eleventh-century Fatimid Cairo, 'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' reinterprets early Islamic apprehensions of the earth and the heavens, while reorienting our modern understanding of medieval Arabic mapmaking and its part in the transmission of Late Antique cartographic knowledge. A remarkable and important book of dazzling scholarship.” -- Jerry Brotton * author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps *“The two authors, Savage-Smith on the heavens and Rapoport on the earth, explain 'The Book of Curiosities' with exemplary scholarship and lucidity. Like the manuscript itself, this companion volume vastly enhances our understanding of the classical Arabic worldview in all its rich complexity." -- Hugh N. Kennedy * SOAS, University of London *“'Lost Maps of the Caliphs' is organized along the lines of the original manuscript, and exceptionally well documented, using a dazzling range of sources in an equally dazzling range of languages. The result is totally fascinating, with untold potential to illuminate any treatment of the medieval world on any continent in the Eastern Hemisphere.” -- Ingrid Rowland * University of Notre Dame *
£35.62
Bodleian Library Talking Maps
Book SynopsisEvery map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. Drawing on the Bodleian Library’s outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, 'Talking Maps' takes a new approach to map-making by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately entwined. Including such rare treasures as a unique map of the Mediterranean from the eleventh-century Arabic 'Book of Curiosities', al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī’s twelfth-century world map, C.S. Lewis’s map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien’s cosmology of Middle-earth and Grayson Perry’s twenty-first-century tapestry map, this fascinating book analyses maps as objects that enable us to cross sea and land; as windows into alternative and imaginary worlds; as guides to reaching the afterlife; as tools to manage cities, nations, even empires; as images of environmental change; and as digitized visions of the global future. By telling the stories behind the artefacts and those generated by them, 'Talking Maps' reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by describing where we are.Trade Review'A book dedicated to the romantic, the beautiful, the mysterious, the intriguing and the fascinating … beautifully produced, copiously illustrated in full-colour, excellent value and a joy to behold.' * Sheetlines (The Journal of The Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps) *'The weight and size of the book promised a plethora of detail, images and various carthographic representations, and unsurprisingly I was not disappointed. … incredibly interesting and informative … an exceptional piece of literature that does well to selectively choose a range of maps and cartographies from a collection of over one and a half million. ... Brotton and Millea have done a fantastic job and have achieved their aim to celebrate the creation, function and purpose of maps, using specific examples that cover nearly two millenia.' * The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers *'While there is something for everyone in Talking Maps, it is not just a breezy coffee-table tome.' * IMCOS (International Map Collectors Society) *'This is a well-designed and presented book. There are many maps spread throughout the pages and theses are discussed and analysed in a very easy to digest manner. … A very good read.’ * The Globe *
£33.25
Bodleian Library The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of
Book SynopsisDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Painted in multiple colours on three pieces of Mitsumata paper, this beautifully decorative map of China was discovered to be a seafaring chart showing Ming Dynasty trade routes. It is the earliest surviving example of Chinese merchant cartography and is evidence that Ming China was outward-looking, capitalistic and vibrant. Exploring the commercial aims of the Ming Dynasty, the port city of Quanzhou and its connections with the voyages of the early traveller Zheng He, this book describes the historical background of the era in which the map was used. It also includes an analysis of the skills and techniques involved in Chinese map-making and the significance of the compass bearings, scale and ratios found on the map, all of which combine to represent a breakthrough in cartographic techniques. The enthralling story revealed by this extraordinary artefact is central to an understanding of the long history of China’s relationship with the sea and with the wider world.Trade Review'…Nie's discussion of the Selden Map [is] a fascinating reminder of the inherently political nature of maps - both ancient and modern - and the importance of maintaining a critical reading of geopolitcs in approaching any cartographic treasures.' * The Globe *'Not only is the text both informative and easy to read, but the numerous images and elegant graphics make this attractive volume the perfect introduction to a highly-important map...a worthy and desirable addition to the library of any serious sinologist or enthusiastic cartophile.' * IMCOS (International Map Collectors' Society) Journal *'A friendly and approachable insight to the Ming Dynasty. … Nie has opened the door to a plethora of conversations regarding the preservation and conservation of artefacts and documents, so that today's society can also reflect on centuries of development and contribute towards more accurate understandings of history.' * The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers *'This book uncovers the history behind the map, from its groundbreaking cartographic techniques to the wider context of Chinese map-making.' * The Arts Society.org *'If the sign of a good book is its ability to draw in the reader … then 'The Selden Map of China' is indeed a winner. When he opened it, your reviewer had given little thought to ancient Chinese cartography. By the time he had finished it, he was gripped.' * Sheetlines *
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Oxford University Press Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English
Book SynopsisKatarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks (''cheapbooks'') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era''s de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown.This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.Trade Reviewan impressive book ... This cogent and original book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of early modern print markets and publics. * David J. Baker, Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Common Space: Poetry and Cartography Chapter One: Spenser's Miniature Map of Faerie Chapter Two: Daniel's Imperial Survey Chapter Three: Jonson's Broken Compasses and Bit Parts Chapter Four: Davenant's Numerical Nationhood Chapter Five: Milton's Map of Liberty Epilogue: Argos Eyes
£88.35
Cambridge University Press Dialectology and the Linguistic Atlas Project
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£47.49
The University of Chicago Press A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps
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University of Chicago Press Ancient Perspectives
Book SynopsisIn each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. This title presents an overview of cartography and its uses.
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Thames & Hudson Ltd Murder Maps USA
Book SynopsisAdam Selzer is an author and researcher specializing in the secret side of history, rescuing long-lost stories from microfilm reels, tracing urban legends to their sources and uncovering the criminal underworld. He has been a tour guide in New York and Chicago, and has written over twenty books. Titles include multiple works of crime history, including H. H. Holmes: The True Story of the Devil in the White City, Mysterious Chicago and The Ghosts of Chicago.
£23.75
Quarto Publishing PLC Atlas of Forgotten Places
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Vacant Properties Büyükada Orphelinat, Turkey Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant, Poland Pyramiden, Svalbard, Norway The Castle of Dona Chica, Portugal Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse, Denmark Sammezzano Castle, Italy Section 2: Unsettled Situatons Wünsdorf, Germany Old Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia Mandu, India Craco, Italy Grängesberg, Sweden Plymouth, Montserrat, West Indies Kolmanskop, Namibia Kennecott, Alaska Döllersheim, Austria Section 3: Dilapidated Destinations The West Pier, Brighton, UK Santa Claus, Arizona, US Ducor Palace Hotel, Liberia Hachijo Royal Hotel, Japan Grand Hôtel de la Forêt, Corsica Camelot Theme Park, Lancashire, UK The Salton Sea Riviera, California, US New World Mall, Bangkok, Thailand Kupari, Croatia Hellinikon Olympic Complex, Greece Section 4: Journeys Ended Nicosia Airport, Cyprus Train Graveyard, Uyuni, Bolivia Crystal Palace Subway, London, UK Suakin, Sudan City Hall Subway Station, New York, US Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea Section 5: Obsolete Institutions St Peter’s Seminary College, Scotland, UK Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital, New York, US Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Italy Gary City Methodist Church, Indiana, US Akampene Island, Uganda Seaside Sanatorium, Connecticut, US Lennox Castle Hospital, Scotland, UK Alcatraz Prison, California, US Selected Bibliography Picture Credits Acknowledgements Index
£20.00
Gill That Place We Call Home
Book SynopsisJohn Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names, peeling back the layers of meaning behind them to reveal stories about the nature of the land of Erin and the people who walked it before us.Travel the highways, byways and boreens of Ireland with John and become absorbed in the place names s
£20.89
Johns Hopkins University Press A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946
Book SynopsisCarpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis, Gary, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Tell City, Indiana.Trade ReviewAn incredible wealth of information... a fine addition to library collections that support interests in railroading, transportation issues, post-World War II history, or the midwest region. American Reference Books Annual 2009 Superb series... As in Carpenter's previous editions on the Mid-Atlantic states and New England, the detail in his hand-drawn, exhaustively researched maps is astonishing... This atlas and its companions are excellent snapshots of railroading's 'classic era.' -- Ronald S. McGonigal Classic Trains 2009 A winning reference. Midwest Book Review 2009 Mr. Carpenter's labor of love appeals to railroad professionals, railroad enthusiasts, sociologists, historians, local historians, cartographers, and collectors of unusual maps. The book belongs on your reference shelf. There's nothing else quite like it. -- John Baesch The Portolan 2009 This atlas is a gem, and certainly should be considred for your bookshelf. -- Robert D. Brubaker Keystone 2010Table of ContentsIntroductionHow to Use This AtlasAcknowledgmentsThe AtlasKay MapMap Symbols and AbbreviationsThe MapsAppendix: List of Railroads in the AtlasNotes on the Maps: ReferencesIndexesCoaling StationsInterlocking Stations and Former Interlocking StationsPassender and Non-passenger StationsTrack PansTunnelsViaducts
£63.00
Moody Publishers Moody Bible Atlas
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£49.88
Broadman & Holman Publishers Holman Illustrated Guide To Biblical Geography
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£31.78
National Geographic Society All Over the Map
Book SynopsisCreated for map lovers by map lovers, this book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the ancient art of cartography still thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog 'All Over the Map'--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps--some never before published. This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate maps of hidden worlds from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and cutting-edge data-based cartography showing the ebb and flow of modern cities. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller wouldTrade Review“An absorbing and quirky history of mapmaking.” –The New York Times"This beautiful tome by WIRED alumni Betsy Mason and Greg Miller charts the fascinating history of cartography. The scores of maps in the book range from the whimsical (origins of meats supplied to Parisian butchers) to the political (North Dakota fracking sites) to the fantastical (Jerry Gretzinger’s imaginary world)." –Wired"With an eye for splendor, Mason and Miller dredge up stories of the past through the medium of maps, often with something to say about the present. Their new book, All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey, binds hundreds of evocative maps into one volume, stitched with approachable, illuminating prose." –Laura Bliss, CityLab “Mason and Miller, who run the All over the Map blog, aren’t professional cartographers but journalists, and their stance as relative novices who love maps makes this book a wonder…A must for cartography collections and a wonderful addition to social science and art shelves.” –Library Journal “It'd be pretty difficult to review the breadth of maps in the book to give you a flavor even. Let’s just say Mason and Miller have got you covered whatever your map vice is. So whether you like the painstaking detail of beautiful topographic maps, the imagination of celestial charts, the analytical representation of statistical data or the fantasy of the map of Westeros or the Death Star then there’s plenty in this book to feast on.” –Kenneth Field, Cartonerd blog“Mapping the cosmos is just one of the topics addressed in this entertaining, colorful look at historical maps and the stories behind them. Space fans will revel in the tale surrounding a century’s worth of road atlases for Mars’ (non-existent) canals, There are also entries for the history of moon maps, the solar system maps that NASA’s Pioneer and Voyager missions provided for the aliens, and the fictional Death Star diagrams. But wait … there’s much, much more. Co-authors Betsy Mason and Greg Miller provide a cornucopia of cartography that spans subjects ranging from a street map for ancient Rome and a 15th-century guide to the parallels between medieval maps of Britain and contemporary charts of the Seven Kingdoms in “Game of Thrones.”–GeekWire "Science journalists Greg Miller and Betsy Mason took their obsession with maps—historical, geologic, science-y, even of other worlds—and translated that into one of the most beautiful and interesting compendiums of stories I've ever read. The book is filled with over 200 maps, some famous, like maps of the ocean floor, some obscure, like a geologic map of the moon, which is easily one of the visually craziest maps I've ever seen. I can't recommend it highly enough." –Kishore Hari, Inquiring Minds podcast "One of the most beautiful and fascinating books I’ve ever seen." –Mary Eileen Williams, Feisty Side of Fifty podcast “Betsy Mason and Greg Miller have collected a simply gorgeous set of maps and not only shared the reason behind the making of the maps, but their history, what they got correct and what they missed, and I have now spent hours poring over the beautiful pictures of maps, ancient and recent, artistic, scientific, and both, from all corners of the world that are found in this stunning collection.” –BookNAround "I just loved getting lost in these images and these stories. All Over the Map is such a treat for cartographers and fans of maps (like me) - it is simply unputdownable." –A Bookish Way of Life “There is information in here that even surprised a map lover like me. Maps of cities, mountains, oceans, industry, farming, tourist flow, war destruction, wind, and planets - and that is just to touch on a few. The content of this book is really amazing! I can't think of anybody who would not enjoy this one.” .” –Wall-to-Wall Books“Every page of this giant tome of a book features a beautiful representation of a specific map accompanied by super interesting information about its history, origins and purpose.” –Ms. Nose in a Book “It is a big, beautiful and utterly fascinating book featuring all kinds of unique maps that chart worlds both real and imagined.” –Kahakai Kitchen “…a truly wonderful book. It’s fun and informative and beautiful and thought-provoking and educational. What are you waiting for?” –5 Minutes for Books“When this large book came into my life, I was struck immediately by one thing, and this kept going… and going… and going…This book is possibly the most beautiful book I have ever owned in my entire life.” –Literary Quicksand
£37.79
Rose Publishing (CA) Mapas Biblicos Antes Y Ahora
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£22.49
Broadman & Holman Publishers CSB Holy Land Illustrated Bible, Hardcover
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£41.79
University of Utah Press,U.S. The Mapmakers of New Zion: A Cartographic History
Book SynopsisFrom their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the spatially expansive Mormons made maps to help them create idealized communities, migrate to and colonize large parts of the American West, visualize the stories in their sacred texts, and spread their message internationally through a well-organized missionary system. This book identifies many Mormon mapmakers who played an important but heretofore unsung role in charting the course of Latter-day Saint history. For Mormons, maps had and continue to have both practical and spiritual significance. In addition to using maps to help build their new Zion and to explore the Intermountain West, Latter-day Saint mapmakers used them to depict locations and events described in the Book of Mormon.Featuring over one hundred historical maps reproduced in full color—many never before published—The Mapmakers of New Zion sheds new light on Mormonism and takes readers on a fascinating journey through maps as both historical documents and touchstones of faith.Trade Review“The Mapmakers of New Zion is a brilliant history of Mormons and Mormon thought, viewed through the unique lens of cartography. Written in an engaging style, Mapmakers documents the minutiae of history and geography and offers an ongoing meditation on Mormon cosmology and Latter-day Saint views on space and time. A stimulating and enlightening book.” —Todd Compton, author of A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary “Provides an excellent introduction to historical cartography and asks a series of illuminating questions about the art and science of mapmaking. Carefully crafted and full of cultural insights.” —Will Bagley, author of South Pass: Gateway to a Continent “A magnificent tome about the mapmakers of the Mormon exodus out of the United States into the American West.”—The Journal of Mormon History “From its trek west in the 1800s to today’s missionary efforts, Mormonism has left behind its fair share of maps. Richard Francaviglia studies these maps in detail and brings to light some new insights about the religion’s culture and theology.”—Deseret News “It is rare to discover a book as richly illustrated and produced as Richard Francaviglia’s new The Mapmakers of New Zion.…Those interested in Mormon history, scholars, students, and general public, will find much to appreciate in Francaviglia’s work, and various fields of study will benefit from considering the questions he poses and insights he provides.”—The Journal of Arizona History “[Francaviglia’s] analyses continually reveal new insights and fresh readings of old stories.”—Nova Religio “A marvelous archival cartographic lesson on the LDS experience from its inception.…this work is enterprising and thought-provoking.”—Mormon Studies Review “Effectively makes the case that maps are an important, and underutilized, source for understanding the history and geography of the Latter-day Saints. More importantly, this work enlightens us as to how the Latter-day Saints have thought about their own history and geography.” —BYU Studies
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Savas Beatie The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2–20, 1862
Book SynopsisThe Maps of Antietam breaks down the entire operation into 21 map sets or “action-sections” enriched with 124 full-colour original full-page maps. These spectacular cartographic creations bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march into Maryland, the Harpers Ferry Operation, the Battle of South Mountain, the battle at Antietam, the retreat, and the fighting at Shepherdstown, as well as important marches and events. Each “action-section” is accompanied by as many as ten maps, and opposite each map is a full facing page of detailed, footnoted text describing the units, personalities, movements, and combat, including quotes from eyewitnesses, making the story of Lee’s raid into Maryland come alive.This original presentation masterfully leads readers on a journey through the campaign that many historians believe marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. Gottfried begins with the position of the opposing armies after the Second Bull Run Campaign before detailing their joint movements into Maryland. Readers will stand with D. H. Hill atop South Mountain as General McClellan tries to force his way through the mountain passes; surround, lay siege to, and capture Harpers Ferry (and ride with Col. Benjamin Davis’s cavalry on its breakout); fight blow-by-blow outside the small town of Sharpsburg (53 maps) through the bloodiest day in American history; retreat from the battlefield; and revisit the final bloodshed spilled at Shepherdstown.Perfect for the easy chair or for walking hallowed ground, The Maps of Antietam is a seminal work that, like Gottfried’s earlier Gettysburg and First Bull Run studies, belongs on the bookshelf of every serious and casual student of the Civil War.
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Disruption Books Home Is Everywhere: The Unbelievably True Story
Book SynopsisAs a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government—not because he liked the work but because he heard it paid well. That job shaped his life in ways he could never have imagined. As a surveyor for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charles was tasked with measuring the unmapped American landscape. Over the years this would take him from being eaten up by mosquitoes in Alaska, to eating steak and lobster on oil rigs in Louisiana. His career became even more adventurous when his family later hit the road with him, making their home in a caravan of trailers as the survey team traversed the nation. The measurements taken by Charles and the team eventually helped build today’s GPS technology. But such a contribution was the furthest thing from the minds of Charles and his family as they experienced life on the road during a time of astounding change in American life. From segregated trains, to Cold War military bases, and back to Kansas, Charles’s family found that home is more than a place on a map.Trade Review"A concise account of a tumultuous American journey that offers some intriguing insights for history lovers." Kirkus Reviews
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Barbour Reference Barbour Bible Atlas
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Reaktion Books Mapping the Middle East
Book SynopsisMapping the Middle East explores the many perspectives from which people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus river valleys over the past millennium. By analysing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a world region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. Indeed, maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coinciding with the eras of European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state, have obscured this deeper past and constrained future possibilities. Mapping the Middle East is organized chronologically to contextualize and interpret compelling maps from each period. Chapters address the medieval `Realm of Islam', the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, French and British colonial mapping over the long nineteenth century, national mapping traditions in modern Turkey, Iran and Israel/Palestine, and alternative geographies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century maps. Vivid colour illustrations allow readers to follow the argument on the surface of the maps. Rather than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
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