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English
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This wide-ranging collection of maps -- all inspired by literary classics -- offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Handmaid's Tale, and more.
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Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Take a tour of America's best-loved --and lesser known-- urban delights in this compendium of city maps. Explore skyscraper streets, museum miles, local food trucks, and city parks from Anchorage to Washington D.C., and discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, culture, and diversity that have helped make America what it is today"--Page 4 of cover.
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society volume new ser., 43, pt. 1
Publisher
American Philosophical Society
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
"Part of old Philadelphia, a map showing historic buildings & sites from the founding until the early nineteenth century, compiled by Grant Miles Simon," fold., in pocket.
Publisher
Black Dog & Levanthal Publishers, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 'The quarantine atlas', 65 homemade maps by people around the globe reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds."--
"In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Lee Martin asked readers to share homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The response was astonishing: the hundreds of maps and accompanying stories received served as windows into what individuals...
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Publisher
Blueprint Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents pictorial maps showing how twelve cultures saw the world. For some, it was a giant tree or an upside-down mountain, while others believed we were living on the back of a giant turtle. It reveals what the Egyptians, Greeks, Hindus, Norse, Polynesians, Aztecs, and many more believed, and includes an array of gods, monsters, heroes, tricksters, and fantastical beasts.
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Publisher
E.P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
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"It takes a lot of sweat to convert a jungle island into an American community; it takes a lot of American know-how to convert frozen tundra into a roadway over which America's industrial might can be catapulted. To give the folks at home some idea of how much it takes to build three roads to Tokyo and two to Berlin is the purpose of this brochure"--Unnumbered page 7.
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press, [in association with] Library of Congress
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Instructive, amusing, colorful--pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of whimsy and fact, combining cartographic elements with text and images and featuring bold and arresting designs, bright...