Cartography category: 112 books
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles...
Cartographic Japan
A History in Maps
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering...
The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose...
Cartographic Encounters
Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
There’s no excuse for getting lost these days—satellite maps on our computers can chart our journey in detail and electronics on our car dashboards instruct us which way to turn. But there was a time when the varied landscape of North America was largely undocumented, and expeditions like that...
by Mark Monmonier
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
An instant classic when first published in 1991*, How to Lie with Maps* revealed how the choices mapmakers make—consciously or unconsciously—mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain...
Designing Better Maps
A Guide for GIS Users
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, second edition, is a comprehensive guide to creating maps that communicate effectively. In Designing Better Maps, renowned cartographer Cynthia A. Brewer guides readers through the basics of good cartography, including layout design, scales, projections,...
Mr. Selden's Map of China
Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China.
Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects...
The Sky Atlas
The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2019
After the enormous international success of The Phantom Atlas and The Golden Atlas**, Edward Brooke-Hitching's stunning new book unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during mankind's quest to map the skies above us.**
This richly illustrated treasury showcases the...
Map Art Lab
52 Exciting Art Explorations in Map Making, Imagination, and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.
Authors...
Sidewalk City
Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
For most, the term “public space” conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world’s major cities, however, public spaces like these are not...
After the Map
Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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...
Picturing America
The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Instructive, amusing, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued...
Terrestrial Lessons
The Conquest of the World as Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly...
Early Mapping of Southeast Asia
The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions Between China and India
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
With dozens of rare color maps and other documents, Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of map-making, exploration and colonization in Asia from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
It documents the idea of Southeast Asia as a geographical and cosmological construct, from the earliest...