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(SWANSTON) Malcolm & Alex Swanston ~ How To Draw A Map: First Edition

Author ~ Malcolm Swanston; Alex Swanston

Title ~ How To Draw A Map

Edition ~ First Edition 

ISBN ~ 9780008275792

Publisher ~ HCollinsUK

Published ~ 2019-10-22

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 280

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Like New 

• Good Bits ~ First edition, first printing. Near new condition with No inscriptions, not price clipped 

• Bad Bits ~ Only slight shelf wear 

Categories ~ #History, #HistoricalGeography, #Geography, #Technology, #Engineering, #Cartography, #NonFiction, #FirstEdition, #MalcolmSwanston, #AlexSwanston, #ISBN9780008275792

How to Draw a Map is a fascinating meditation on the centuries-old art of map-making, from the first astronomical maps to the sophisticated GPS guides of today.

Maps have influenced humanity in many unexpected ways: life, death, sexual reproduction, espionage, war and peace. How to Draw a Map traces the story of mapmaking – cartography – from the first scratchings on the cave wall to the detailed high-tech ‘navigator’. This is the story of human conceptions, often misconceptions, of our world. It is also a very personal story about a mapmaker’s journey through life – the exciting new perspectives and the occasional misadventures.

Over the last 5,000 years societies and empires have risen and fallen; most, if not all, attempt to record their own visions of our world. In the 15th century, Europeans developed a global reach with their oceanic ships, exploring outward into the world, revealing new possibilities, peoples and opportunities. Mapmakers recorded this journey, revealing to us a window into past triumphs and disasters. The story continues into our own day when diplomats carve up our globe, presenting what we now see as the ‘modern’ world.

In How to Draw a Map, father and son cartographers Alexander and Malcolm Swanston demonstrate the skill, creativity and care involved in the timeless art of creating maps – and what these artefacts reveal about the legion of mapmakers who went before us.

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