A guide to understanding how and why maps are made and used, focusing on the history of how human beings have looked at the world and represented it on maps.
A guide to understanding how and why maps are made and used, focusing on the history of developments in how navigators plotted their courses, from early beginnings to global positioning satellites.
A guide to understanding how and why maps are made and used, focusing on why mapping is important for governments in times of peace and war to provide information about population, elections, enemy locations, and other topics.
A guide to understanding how and why maps are made and used, focusing on how cartography developed along with the discoveries of explorers about the world, and looking at some of the controversies caused by mapmaking.
Discusses how cartographers map cities; describes historical city maps from Rome, China, and Japan; and examines how maps are used by a variety of people.