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All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey

All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey - Hardcover

by Greg Miller
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Availability:In StockContributor:Greg MillerPublish date:2018-10-30Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:National Geographic SocietyISBN-13:9781426219726ISBN-10:1426219725UPC:9781426219726Book Category:Reference, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Historical Geography, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:11.50 x 9.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:3.9529Product ID:SCGSR60GTD
Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today.

In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps.

This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.
Language:EnglishPublisher:National Geographic SocietyISBN-13:9781426219726ISBN-10:1426219725UPC:9781426219726Book Category:Reference, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps, Historical Geography, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:11.50 x 9.90 x 1.10 inchesWeight:3.9529Product ID:SCGSR60GTD
BETSY MASON is an award-winning science journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and co-author (with Greg Miller) of the National Geographic blog "All Over the Map." She was a 2015-2016 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow. Previously she was the online science editor for Wired and the science reporter for the Contra Costa Times. Before becoming a journalist, Mason earned a master's degree in geology at Stanford University.

GREG MILLER is a science and tech journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Previously he was a senior writer at Wired and a staff writer at Science, where he won several honors. Miller earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford University. He has appeared on public radio's Science Friday to discuss maps and has given talks on a wide variety of cartography-related topics.
Publisher: National Geographic Society

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