maps

Guide to safe exploration of the wilderness, with instructions for using a compass, reading maps, planning an outing, navagating in the field, and understanding the weather.

Provides an introduction to maps explaining scale; using a compass; longitude and latitude; measuring elevation, depth, and astronomical units ; and related math concepts.

Examines the geology and natural history of the highest regions of California's Sierra Nevada range, and looks at the records of early explorations of the peaks. Includes maps, photographs, and geologic guides.

An illustrated introduction to maps.

Samurai Seikei and Judge Ooka, his foster-father, search for seven men who have seven parts of a map tattooed on their backs, but when they put the pieces of the map together, Seikei and Judge Ooka learn of a dangerous location.

The battle between good and evil reaches a new level when Kara, one of three friends who have learned they are destined to be magic masters, finds the fairy map that shows the path to the mystical home of pure magic--a map also coveted by the Dark Sorceress.

Contains maps in these areas: General Skills, Climate & Weather, Earth, People, Economy, Statistical Resources, Northern America, Latin America, Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, North Africa and Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Pacific Realm.

Volume One contains: The World and Regions, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, and the Canadian Provinces.

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.