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Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
Vincent Virga, Library of Congress
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| #210497 in Books | 2007-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 13.38 x1.38 x10.63l,5.05 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful and interesting|By Marie|The most beautiful book on map history that I've seen. The text is learned yet very accessible, and the images well chosen and printed. Virga's attention to the politics of maps repeatedly hits the right note. The production is everything you might expect from the Library of Congress. I own one and have given others as gifts. (Heresy disclosur|From Publishers Weekly|Drawing on the Library of Congress's 4.8 million maps and 60,000 atlases, this is an overview of cartography in different times and cultures. Veteran picture editor Virga upends our notion of maps as two-dimensional representations of phys
CARTOGRAPHIA offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important, and fascinating maps in existence, from the world's largest cartographic collection, at the Library of Congress. These maps show how our idea of the world has shifted and grown over time, and each map tells its own unique story about nations, politics, and ambitions. The chosen images, with their accompanying stories, introduce the reader to an exciting new way of "reading" maps as travel...
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