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The Story of Maps | 
 enlarge | Author: Lloyd A. Brown
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: £15.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 153111
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0486238733
Dewey Decimal Number: 526.09
EAN: 9780486238739
ASIN: 0486238733
Publication Date: July 1980
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Lloyd A. Brown's classic work in the field of cartography October 24, 2004
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
As we learned from the example of Americo Vespucci, make a really good map and half the world can be named after you. In "The Story of Maps," Lloyd A. Brown provides an authoritative history of both maps and mapmakers, from the work of Strabo and Ptolemy to the 19th-century. Brown's treatise on the science of cartography and the men who set out to map the World was originally published in 1949. "The Story of Maps" is one of the standard early references for map collectors and a basic work in any cartographic reference collection. Brown covers both why maps were necessary and how they changed the world they were mapping out by impacting the economics and politics of nations (Brown's critique of the Portuguese is particularly compelling). This book contains over 80 illustrations, both photographs and drawings, which, unfortunately, suffer from being reduced in such a small format, especially for someone like me whose eyes and not what they once were, because once Brown explains the history behind such maps they are eminently more fascinating to pour over (albeit with a magnifying glass in my case).
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