Synopses & Reviews
From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries.
The Men Who Mapped the World is a beautifully illustrated and highly informative journey through these discoveries and dreams. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged our species to venture beyond boundaries of space and time. Now that inspiring history is literally hands-on with 20 pull-out facsimiles of significant maps from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society!
Synopsis
Includes 17 facsimile maps folded in pockets throughout book.
Synopsis
From the crude maps of ancient Babylon to the satellite-fueled precision of Google Maps, cartography has been both a record of dreams and of discoveries. Maps have played midwife to empires, helped win wars, and encouraged humanity to venture beyond boundaries of space and time. Containing numerous maps from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society,
Mapping the World tells the story of the philosophers, explorers, artists, and scientists who brought together their skills to produce some of the most intriguing artifacts ever created.
About the Author
Beau Riffenburgh is an author and historian who has served as editor of
Polar Record, the worldandrsquo;s oldest journal of polar research, and as the head of the Polar History Group at the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has written several books on exploration, including
The Myth of the Explorer (Oxford Paperbacks) and
Shackletonandrsquo;s Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod (Bloomsbury). For Andrandeacute; Deutsch he wrote the
Royal Geographical Society Exploration Experience (2007),
The Titanic Experience (2008), and the
Royal Geographical Society Polar Exploration Experience. A native Californian, he now lives in Wales.