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Author : Scot Ritchie
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2009-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554532744
Learn map skills to help you navigate and find things.
Author : Tessa Duder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781775540946
The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand tells the human story behind the creation of Cook's famous chart, following the progress of his six-month circumnavigation of New Zealand and piecing the map together as the narrative on H.M.B. Endeavour unfolds. It is a story of courage, dogged perseverance and Cook's extraordinary skills as both cartographer and seafarer. Scenes from Tessa Duder's evocative text are beautifully recreated by award-winning illustrator David Elliot in this exquisite large format edition. Published to coincide with the Tuia -- Encounters 250 commemoration of James Cook's 1769-70 journey around New Zealand.
Author : Kären Wigen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 022671862X
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0143128493
A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit—including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Now expanded with thirty-six more pages, 250 city maps revised from previous editions, and listings given from almost a thousand systems in total, this is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city.
Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 146771741X
Watch as a boy makes map of his room to show his friend the location of the supplies he’ll need to care of the boy's hamster while the family goes on vacation. Simple text takes early readers step by step through the types of features a room map needs to have.
Author : William Rankin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 022633953X
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.
Author : James Sullivan
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781017473650
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Author : Joe Abercrombie
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316390801
Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie. Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of side-shows, back-stories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law. The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day single-handed when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta. Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain Bethod is desperate to bring peace to the North. There's only one obstacle left -- his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine . . .
Author : George Quinn
Publisher : [Newmarket, Ont.] : Apple Press, c2000-[c2001]
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9780919972681
The purpose of this activity book is to introduce students to Canada and to have students develop basic map skills through the use of a map of Canada, included with this book, and the 34 student-based activities outlined.
Author : Erika L. Shores
Publisher : First Facts
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781429628846
Black dots. Blue, curvy lines. What do those strange drawings mean? With a key and the skills to read it, you'll unlock the language of maps.