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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer First Trade Paper edition
Peter Turchi
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer First Trade Paper edition
Peter Turchi
Traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. This book describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper.
246 pages, with colour & b&w illustrations throughout
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 13, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781595340412 |
Publishers | Trinity University Press,U.S. |
Pages | 246 |
Dimensions | 142 × 209 × 24 mm · 400 g |