Small, Meredith F.
Summary: "In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is the oldest and most complete Medieval map to survive into modernity. And in its time, this groundbreaking mappamundi provided the most detailed description of the known world, incorporating accurate observation, and geographic reality, urging viewers to see water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.09 SMASummary: Episode 1. Heaven and earth: "Ever since the ancient Babylonians began sketching maps on clay tablets, religion and myth have shaped humanity's view of the world. The Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, and medieval Christians created their own pictures of this earth--and what lies beyond."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHABrooke-Hitching, Edward
Summary: The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms, non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Lester, Toby.
Contents: Awakening -- Old World. Matthew's maps ; Scourge of God ; The description of the world ; through the Ocean Sea ; Seeing is believing -- New World. Rediscovery ; Ptolemy the Wise ; the Florentine perspective ; Terrae incognitae ; Into African climes ; The learned men ; Cape of Storms ; Colombo ; The Admiral ; Christ-bearer ; Amerigo -- The whole world. Gymnasium ; World without end ; Afterworld...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.73 LESJohnson, Donald S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.42 JOHFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Garfield, Simon.
Summary: Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 912.09 GARNebenzahl, Kenneth.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 1990
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 970.015 NEBWhitfield, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9 WHIShort, John R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Introduction / David Buisseret -- Louis Charles Karpinski and the cartography of the Great Lakes / Mary Sponberg Pedley -- First nations mapmaking in the Great Lakes Region in intercultural contexts: a historical review / G. Malcolm Lewis -- The 1767 maps of Robert Rogers and Jonathan Carver: a proposal for the establishment of the colony of Michilimackinac / Keith R. Widder -- Motives for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 526.09774 MAPHayes, Derek
Summary: Explores the U.S.'s past from a geographical perspective, presenting more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world and discussing important events and cultural changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911 HAYThermes, Jennifer
Summary: "An innovative look back through time, Manhattan Maps follows the history of Manhattan Island from its natural formation to the bustling city today. It explores the ways in which nature and people are connected, tracking the people who lived on Manhattanfrom the Lenape Indians to Dutch settlers hunting for beaver pelts to early Americans and beyond, and how they've (literally) shaped the island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019