Rob Houston
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A fascinating look at twelve maps-from Ancient Greece to Google Earth-and how they changed our world. In this masterful study, historian and cartography expert Jerry Brotton explores a dozen of historys most influential maps, from stone tablet to vibrant computer screen. Starting with Ptolemy, "father of modern geography," and ending with satellite cartography, A History of the World in 12 Maps brings maps from classical Greece, Renaissance Europe,...
Series
It can't be true volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
A vibrantly illustrated treasury of amazing facts about subjects ranging from animals and the human body to architecture and outer space combines CGI images with such entries that examine the moon's comparative size to Australia and the massive dimensions of a whale's heart.
