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The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments
Dennis Reinhartz
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| #657222 in Books | Sterling | 2012-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.25 x9.50 x1.25l,2.54 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| I LOVE MAPS!!|By Louise Radanovich|Beautiful, informative book. The forward by John Noble Wilford, whose "The Mapmakers" resides in my bookcase, is excellent. I have also recently read Simon Winchester's "The Map that Changed the World", so this lovely volume now triples my appreciation of cartographic history and art. Keep a magnifying glass handy to appreciate the tiny d|About the Author|
Dennis Reinhartz is professor emeritus of the University of Texas at Arlington, where he spent 35 five years as a professor of history and Russian. He has edited and contributed chapters to numerous academic books, including Mapping of E
This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; newly discovered flora such as corn and tobacco; fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns; godlike beings and fantasy-like depictions of native peoples. The s...
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