The clear and detailed mapping in this bestselling Collins world atlas has been brought fully up-to-date to reflect all recent geopolitical changes. Great value and contains all the world maps you need in a budget atlas, for family, study and business use. Key features of this atlas include: - Fully revised, detailed reference maps of the world - Map of the world''s countries and physical features - Introductory section includes facts on all the countries of the world, including flags, area, population, capital city, languages, religions and currency - Map of the world''s time zones - Over 10,000 index entries A new, fully updated edition of this bestselling atlas of the world.
A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history - now in a compact new edition.
Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 250 fascinating examples of maps from the birth of cartography to today's cutting-edge digital maps and reflects the many reasons people make maps - to find their way, to assert ownership, to encourage settlement, or to show political power. Carefully chosen by an international panel of experts and arranged to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, it features maps by the greatest names in cartography and lesser-known creators, as well as rare maps from indigenous cultures around the world.
Les cartographes contemporains les plus originaux et les plus sollicités nous font partager leur travail pour nous aider à mieux comprendre le monde qui nous entoure dans cette édition revue de l'un de nos bestsellers.
Pendant des siècles, nous avons utilisé les ressources de la cartographie pour représenter notre environnement immédiat et le reste du monde, puis le léguer à d'autres. À notre époque des systèmes de navigation par satellite et de Google Maps, les interprétations personnelles de la géographie qui nous entoure deviennent encore plus pertinentes. A Map of the World dresse un panorama fascinant du travail de toute une génération montante de graphistes, d'illustrateurs et de cartographes qui s'est découvert une passion pour une nouvelle forme de cartographie illustrée.
Cette édition mise à jour et augmentée contient encore plus d'exemples de leur production, depuis des représentations rigoureuses à des interprétations plus personnelles, naïves et contemporaines des territoires.
A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS ''Highly recommended'' - Andrew Marr ''A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read'' - Jonathan Ross The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be . These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers . Sometimes the stories are almost impossible to believe, and remarkably, some of the errors were still on display in maps published in the 21st century. Throughout much of the 19th century more than 40 different mapmakers included the Mountains of Kong, a huge range of peaks stretching across the entire continent of Africa, in their maps - but it was only in 1889 when Louis Gustave Binger revealed the whole thing to be a fake. For centuries, explorers who headed to Patagonia returned with tales of the giants they had met who lived there, some nine feet tall. Then there was Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish explorer who returned to London to sell shares in a land he had discovered in South America. He had been appointed the Cazique of Poyais, and bestowed with many honours by the local king of this unspoiled paradise. Now he was offering others the chance to join him and make their fortune there, too - once they had paid him a bargain fee for their passage... The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume , packed with stunning maps and drawings of places and people that never existed . The remarkable stories behind them all are brilliantly told by Edward Brooke-Hitching in a book that will appeal to cartophiles everywhere.
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
