On the map : why the world looks the way it does /: why the world looks the way it does. (2012)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- On the map : why the world looks the way it does /: why the world looks the way it does. (2012)
- Main Title:
- On the map : why the world looks the way it does
- Further Information:
- Note: Simon Garfield.
- Other Names:
- Garfield, Simon
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; For the Love of Maps: Foreword by Dava Sobel; Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself; 1 What Great Minds Knew; It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are?; 2 The Men Who Sold the World; Here Be Dragons; 3 The World Takes Shape; 4 Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon; 5 The Mystery of Vinland; California as an Island; 6 Welcome to Amerigo; Keeping it Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage; 7 What's the Good of Mercator?; Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders; 8 The World in a Book; 9 Mapping a Cittee (without Forder Troble); A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map. 10 Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance SurveyThe Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell; 11 The Legendary Mountains of Kong; Across Australia with Burke and Wills; 12 Cholera and the Map that Stopped It; 13 X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island; Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious; 14 The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped; The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube; 15 Mrs P and the A-Z; J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map; 16 Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook; A Hareraising Masquerade. Chapter 18Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Epilogue.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Profile
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (674 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 912.09
Cartography -- History
Maps -- Miscellanea
REFERENCE / Atlases & Gazetteers
TRAVEL / Maps & Road Atlases
Cartography
Maps
Geography
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Cartography
Electronic books
Electronic books
History
Trivia and miscellanea - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781847658555
1847658555
9781742695365
1742695361 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781846685095
1846685095
9781592407798
159240779X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Print version record. - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.652443
- Ingest File:
- 07_020.xml