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Germania und die Insel Thule
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 26.44Hauptbeschreibung "It is one of the most puzzling riddles of antiquity" galt seit 1952 für den Weltatlas des Klaudios Ptolemaios aus dem zweiten Jh. n. Chr. Doch was ist daran so rätselhaft? Die Schrift des großen Mathematikers und Geographen enthielt mutmaßlich keine Landkarten, wohl aber mehrere Tausend Städtenamen mit Angabe ihrer geographischen... more...
Die Kartenmacher
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 16.42Hauptbeschreibung Die Stadt Nürnberg erlebte im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert ein goldenes Zeitalter. Gelehrte, Künstler und Kaufleute zog es in die Stadt, um am kulturellen und geistigen Leben dieses ?Mittelpunktes Europas" teilzuhaben. So wurde Nürnberg auch zum neuen Zentrum für Kartographie und Geographie. Der ?geistige Entdecker Amerikas", Martin... more...
History of Cartography
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2010 International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography. The nineteen papers reflect the research interests of the Commission which span the period from the Enlightenment to the evolution of Geographical Information Science. Apart from studies on general cartography, the volume,... more...
A Geographic Perspective of Cuban Landscapes
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99Beginning in the era of the Spanish conquest and taking the reader right up to the present day, this book focuses on how the landscape of Cuba has changed and evolved into the environment we see today. It illustrates the range of factors - economic, political and cultural - that have determined Cuba's physical geography, and explores the shifting... more...
Starkey's Book of States
Bitingduck Press 2007; US$ 9.95Inspired by a children's geography primer, The Arrow Book of States , Starkey?s Book of States was conceived in response as a contemporary poetic atlas. Written over the course of several years, the collection includes fifty poems evoking the landscape or mood of each of the fifty states. In poetry which is by turns wistful and sardonic, comic... more...
The Road to There
Tundra 2009; US$ 15.95Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children?s non-fiction Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International?s Best Book Award ? Social Studies, Grades 7-12 Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year 2003 winner of the Mr. Christie?s Book Award Seal Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma... more...
The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
BRILL 2008; US$ 71.00Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions. more...









