Description: Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children’s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonNamed Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction categoryRoad maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.Here are some of the unexpected stories of history’s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London’s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars.With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.
Price: 10 USD
Location: Schenectady, New York
End Time: 2024-12-18T20:51:55.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: Textbook
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
Book Title: Road to there : Mapmakers and Their Stories
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Tundra Book Group
Topic: History / Exploration & Discovery, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Geography, History / General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2003
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Val Ross
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Hardcover
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