Maps, annotated : the world's 300 greatest maps explained
2025
Book
This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of all time. Immerse yourself in ancient Chinese star charts, decipher medieval Mappae Mundi, and marvel at intricate surveys of the ocean floor and the lunar surface. Discover how Polynesian navigators used sticks to chart their way across the Pacific, what a rhumb line is, and where dragons were once said to lurk. Organised chronologically, the book includes the most celebrated examples of maps spanning the last 3,000 years, explaining everything from scales and compasses to meteorological symbols, and exploring techniques from engraving and printing to cartographic projection. Entries also place the maps in their wider cultural and historical context, providing a complete overview of the subject.
Main title:
Maps, annotated : the world's 300 greatest maps explained / contributors, Theint Theint Aung [and 23 others].
Author:
Aung, Theint Theint, author
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2025.
Collation:
479 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241682845 (hbk)
Dewey class:
912
Language:
English
BRN:
4167238