Ken Jennings shares his enthusiasm of maps and discusses a number of related topics, such as map making and collecting, the National Geographic Bee, and Google Earth.
Caterer Goldy Schultz, having already had a sighting of her ex-husband's murderer Sandee Brisbane--a woman who is supposed to be dead--finds her holiday season becoming even more complicated when former district attorney Drew Wellington is found dead at the library while Goldy is setting up for a festive breakfast party.
When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
Provides examples of various types of maps accompanied by tips for creating your own version in the same style. Highlights key cartographic elements and profiles a selection of international map artists. Includes step-by-step instructions, color photographs, pages of paper to use for map-making.
An illustrated introduction to map reading that covers why maps are needed, symbols, different kinds of maps, map features, legends, direction, relative location, latitude, longitude, scale, and distance.
An illustrated introduction to different types of maps that covers atlases, globes, and street, political, physical, topographic, weather, and specialty maps.
An illustrated introduction to map reading that covers titles, compass roses, legends, scale, boundaries, globes, latitude, longitude, and other related topics.
Explains what maps are and why they are important, looks at how maps can be used to provide information about different habitats, and includes an activity.
