Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Cartography Literature’ - 14 matches found

Mrs P's Journey

This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...

The Map That Changed the World

"The Map That Changed the World" begins in 1815, when an extraordinary hand painted map was published in London. The first of its kind, this geological map outlined the layers of rock beneath our feet...

Web Mapping Illustrated

With the help of the internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. Many web sites now have map components, and interactive maps are particularly...

Cities of the World: A History in Maps

Peter Whitfield's Cities of the World is a fascinating and original look at the world's greatest cities, as he traces their historic form and special character through the city maps and panoramic views...

Four Colours Suffice

The puzzle: What is the least number of colours required so that on a map, no neighbouring countries share the same colour?
For over century amateurs and professionals struggled with this conundrum...

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past

Historical atlases offer an understanding of the past which is invaluable to historians, not only because they convey a previous age's sense of space and distance but also because they reveal what historians...

The Mapmakers - A History of Stanfords

We are proud to sell this wonderful book, as “The Mapmakers” is quite literally, all about us. One of London’s best known specialist shops, we have been trading in Charing Cross and Covent Garden for...

Visions of the World

This book charts the exploration and mapping of our planet, from before the age of printing to modern satellite imaging, telling the story of the cartographers, explorers and surveyors who have mapped...

From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow

Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names...

How to Lie With Maps

On US Survey mapping Area 51 does not exist, only desert and a few cactii. On Russian Survey mapping of the same place are marked runways, buildings, hangers, in fact the whole airbase!
Along these...

Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society

In this concise history of mapmaking, the author charts the intimate links between maps and civilisation from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map...

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India 1765-1843

There are two parts to this history of the British surveys of India. First the author presents a detailed survey of cartographic techniques in the 18th and early 19th centuries and the institutional...

Maps in Tudor England

The map as we understand it today - a plan, drawn accurately to a defined scale, constructed by triangulation, and showing features by a range of conventional signs - was effectively an invention of...

Ordnance Survey Maps: A Concise Guide for Historians

This highly-specialist title covers the history of OS mapping in mind-boggling detail. Rather than the making of the maps the author is largely interested in the maps themselves. Hence, the book includes...