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1	You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination more books like this by Katharine A Harmon add to wishlist Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to ... see all copies from £10.38! new only from £10.38! \| first editions
2	How to Lie with Maps more books like this by Mark Monmonier add to wishlist Originally published to wide acclaim, this illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must. The second edition is updated with the addition of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.53! \| first editions
3	The Map Book more books like this by Peter Barber (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £16.31! new only from £19.76! \| first editions
4	There's a Map on My Lap!: All about Maps more books like this by Tish Rabe, Aristides Ruiz (Illustrator) add to wishlist The Cat in the Hat introduces young readers to maps--the different kinds (city, world, terrain), their formats (flat, globe, atlas), and the tools used to read them (scales, grids, compasses). Full-color illustrations. see all copies from £6.84! new only from £7.29!
5	The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime more books like this by Miles Harvey add to wishlist Detailing the story of Gilbert Bland, an eccentric, highly successful map thief, this quirky history examines the nature of obsession, the subculture of collectors, and the power of maps to spark the imagination. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Cartography: Thematic Map Design more books like this by Borden D Dent add to wishlist This introduction to map design and production covers computer cartography, micro-computer dot mapping, digital typography and printing fundamentals. This edition contains a new chapter on "Effective Graphing for Cartographers", as well as coverage of colour schemata, dasymetric mapping, and designing page-size maps. Two-colour design and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £32.40!
7	Elements of Cartography more books like this by Joel L Morrison, Randall D Sale, Arthur Howard Robinson add to wishlist About the Cover: The cover illustration was made by combining three different U.S. Geological Survey digital data sets: a black and white digital orthophotograph, a digital elevation model, and a digital raster image of a topographic map. The observer viewpoint is at an altitude of 1200' above the surface, in the vicinity of Massanutten Mountain, ... see all copies from £4.13! new only from £66.28! \| first editions
8	Mapmakers more books like this by John Noble Wilford add to wishlist This illustrated history of cartography provides an accessible profile of artistic and technological innovations in mapmaking throughout the centuries, while emphasizing the importance of this science to world events and space exploration. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £9.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet more books like this by Reif Larsen add to wishlist This brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel traces 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world. see all copies from £12.81! new only from £13.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Civil Drafting Technology more books like this by David Madsen add to wishlist Civil Drafting Technology Seventh Edition covers it all--basic and advanced topics--and everything in between, equipping readers to convert engineering sketches or instructions into actual formal drawings and gain a working knowledge of mapping. Using a "knowledge building" format where one concept is mastered before the next is introduced, Civil ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £13.06! \| first editions
11 view cover	Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization more books like this by Terry A Slocum, Robert B McMaster, Fritz C Kessler add to wishlist For introductory courses in cartography. This comprehensive text blends broad coverage of basic methods for symbolizing spatial data with an introduction to cutting-edge data visualization techniques. The authors' balanced presentation clearly contrasts different approaches for symbolizing spatial data, in addition to individual mapping techniques. see all copies from £36.76! new only from £46.90!
12 view cover	Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West more books like this by D'Arcy Jenish add to wishlist Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America. Epic Wanderer , the first full-length biography of David Thompson, is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against a broad canvas of dramatic rivalries -- between ... see all copies from £7.59! new only from £10.26! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Cartography of North America: 1500-1800 more books like this by Pierluigi Portinaro, Franco Knirsch add to wishlist The earliest known authentic map of North America was drawn in 1500 by Juan de la Cosa, a shipmate of Christopher Columbus. Over the next three centuries, cartography would come of age both as a science and an art form and the mapping of America would tell a story of dating exploration and fierce colonial rivalry. This handsome volume contains 180 ... see all copies from £5.90! new only from £10.60! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Story of Maps more books like this by Lloyd A Brown add to wishlist The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A. D. through the end of the 19th century. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.60! \| first editions
15 view cover	Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age more books like this by Charles H Hapgood add to wishlist Charles Hapgood's classic 1966 book on ancient maps is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence of an advanced worldwide civilisation existing many thousands of years before ancient Egypt. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars. Hapgood concluded that these ancient mapmakers were in some ... see all copies from £7.96! new only from £11.51! \| first editions
16 view cover	Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users more books like this by Cynthia Brewer add to wishlist Describing how to build balanced map layouts suited to varied mapping goals, this guide focuses on export options that suit different media and can be edited in other applications. The wide range of text characteristics needed for expert map design as well as how to improve map readability with type effects such as character spacing, leading, ... see all copies from £17.33! new only from £17.33!
17 view cover	Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist's Guide to Using Maps and Geography more books like this by Melinda Kashuba add to wishlist From locating an ancestor's homesite and where records might be kept to determining which route and roads forebears took when migrating from one area to another, maps are common tools in tracing family history. This book expands the reader's awareness of how maps and other geographic resources, such as atlases, gazetteers and global positioning ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.92!
18 view cover	Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia more books like this by Valerie A Kivelson add to wishlist see all copies from £16.80! new only from £16.80! \| first editions
19 view cover	Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet more books like this by Nicholas Crane add to wishlist MERCATOR recalls the life of the man who flattened the Earth, creating the most accurate map of his day. Underpinning this biography is the examination of how an autodidact like Mercator, a man who never traveled, could solve his age's greatest mystery of cartography, a solution still employed by NASA today. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.12! \| first editions
20 view cover	To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World more books like this by Neil Safier, Sarah Bendall, Jeremy Harwood add to wishlist Illustrated with one hundred of the world's most beautiful and fascinating maps see all copies from £9.32! new only from £16.04! \| first editions
21 view cover	Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization more books like this by Terry A Slocum, Robert B McMaster, Fritz C Kessler add to wishlist For one/two-semester undergraduate courses in Cartography. This comprehensive text bridges the evolution in cartography by presenting both traditional methods and recently developed cartographic techniques. It provides a compendium of methods for symbolizing and visualizing spatial data, from the traditional methods that presume a communication ... see all copies from £22.68! new only from £92.36! \| first editions
22 view cover	The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography more books like this by John Rennie Short add to wishlist An illustrated history of maps and mapmaking, including reproductions of 200 antique maps. see all copies from £15.47! new only from £29.04! \| first editions
23 view cover	Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States 1600-1900 more books like this by John Rennie Short add to wishlist This work provides an account of the mapping of the United States from its colonial origins to 1900. Many of the significant maps and mapmakers are discussed in a chronological narrative that begins with the first European mappings of the New Netherlands (New York State, Massachusetts and Connecticut) in the early 17th century and concludes with ... see all copies from £4.96! new only from £12.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Atlas of Atlases: The Map Maker's Vision of the World more books like this by Phillip Allen, Marshall Editions Ltd add to wishlist A distinguished collection of some of the most stunning and important maps from five centuries of atlases. From the anonymous early atlases of the 15th-century to works by all the great cartographers, this volume spans the finest altases in existence through 1900, showing global history in the making. 300 full-color illustrations. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.38! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps more books like this by Dr. Peter Whitfield add to wishlist This illustrated work charts the history of the world map from classical times up to the satellite images of the present day. The 70 examples included are accompanied by an informative commentary. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £50.16! \| first editions

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