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The Mapmakers: Revised Edition

Paperback • 2001 • English

The Mapmakers: Revised Edition

By John Noble Wilford

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In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, thr...Show more

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9780375708503

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VINTAGE

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

The Mapmakers: Revised Edition

Format

Paperback

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