Great City Maps
Great City Maps

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1465459065

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Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities around the globe. Dive into the details of each beautiful map and learn about interesting features with visual tours of the maps' highlights - such as the Old London Bridge of London in 1572 and the orchards of Brooklyn in 1767 New York. Cities are centers of civilization and the way their maps portray them reflects their politics, religion, and culture. See how certain cities, and cartographic techniques, changed over time. More than just a bird's-eye view, this irresistible book tells the tales behind the cities from the hubs of ancient peoples to modern mega-cities, and profiles the iconic cartographers and artists who created each map. Perfect for history, geography, and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.

Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Author: Ingrid Baumgärtner

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 3110588773

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The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735
Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735

Author: Marco Caboara

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-10-24

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9004530908

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This study reproduces and describes, for the first time, all the maps of China printed in Europe between 1584 and 1735, unravelling the origin of each individual map, their different printing, issues and publication dates.

The Seventh Stone
The Seventh Stone

Author: Warren Murphy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1035999056

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Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

Historian's Guide to Early British Maps
Historian's Guide to Early British Maps

Author: Helen Wallis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-04-06

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780521551526

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Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.