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How to Draw a Map (Hardcover)
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How to Draw a Map (Hardcover)
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How to Draw a Map is a fascinating meditation on the centuries-old
art of map-making, from the first astronomical maps to the
sophisticated GPS guides of today. Maps have influenced humanity in
many unexpected ways: life, death, sexual reproduction, espionage,
war and peace. How to Draw a Map traces the story of mapmaking -
cartography - from the first scratchings on the cave wall to the
detailed high-tech 'navigator'. This is the story of human
conceptions, often misconceptions, of our world. It is also a very
personal story about a mapmaker's journey through life - the
exciting new perspectives and the occasional misadventures. Over
the last 5,000 years societies and empires have risen and fallen;
most, if not all, attempt to record their own visions of our world.
In the 15th century, Europeans developed a global reach with their
oceanic ships, exploring outward into the world, revealing new
possibilities, peoples and opportunities. Mapmakers recorded this
journey, revealing to us a window into past triumphs and disasters.
The story continues into our own day when diplomats carve up our
globe, presenting what we now see as the 'modern' world. In How to
Draw a Map, father and son cartographers Alexander and Malcolm
Swanston demonstrate the skill, creativity and care involved in the
timeless art of creating maps - and what these artefacts reveal
about the legion of mapmakers who went before us.
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