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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
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Hardcover
from Little Brown & Co (October 25, 2007)
9780316997669 | details & prices | 266 pages | 10.25 × 13.25 × 1.25 in. | 5.10 lbs | List price $60.00
About: A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
About: A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.