100 Maps: The Science, Art, and Politics of Cartography Throughout History Alaska Product Details Product Number: 42332

Product Details Product Number: 42332

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Each beautiful map features richly colored states of the United States

100 Maps: The Science, Art, and Politics of Cartography Throughout History Alaska Product Details Product Number: 42332From Ptolemy's projection of the world still the basic map after 13 centuries to Tolkien's cartography of Middle Earth (the most printed guide to a non existent place ever), each of these maps has its own fascinating story to tell. Escape maps, military maps, cartographic breakthroughs, and follies and forgeries: these 100 maps, organized chronologically, are the most important, dramatic, and breathtakingly beautiful ever created. They show not only