Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored And Explained

Name: Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored And Explained
SKU: 9781409345718
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By (author) Jerry Brotton,

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Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the “land of no sunshine” or the land of “people with no bowels”? This book looks at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth.

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ISBN: 9781409345718

Book Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 26.1 × 2.3 × 30.8 cm

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Format Hardback | 256 pages
Dimensions 26.1 × 2.3 × 30.8 cm | 1646
Publication Date 01 September 2014
Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Publication City/Country United Kingdom

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Jerry Brotton

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Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He is a regular broadcaster and critic as well the author of The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Hessell-Tiltman History Prize), This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, and the bestselling and aw ard-winning A History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has been translated into twenty languages.

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