To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World by Jeremy Harwood

To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps that Changed the World

Jeremy Harwood
192 pages
Chartwell Books
Jan 2012
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<p>This thought-provoking history of cartography focuses on 100 key maps that changed human understanding of the world around us, changed the course of map-making itself, or directly influenced the path of history.</p><p>It reveals how different peoples have observed and represented their world through the ages, and explores the human fascination with maps.</p><p>It addresses how maps have been used for navigation, exploration, wartime propaganda and planning, and to project national goals. </p><p>A team of academic experts in the history of cartography provides a scholarly and revealing text that addresses the key questions of how, why - and, crucially, if - these maps have changed the world.</p><p>One hundred of the world's most beautiful and fascinating maps provide the illustrations. The result is a definitive, fact-packed, fresh and lively study that readers, no matter how much or how little they may know about the subject already, will find informative, insightful, and absorbing.</p>
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Pages 192
Publisher Chartwell Books
Published 2012
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