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  The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

  by Reif Larsen

  Book Description A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted... (more)
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  Maisie Dobbs: Book 7

  The Mapping of Love and Death

  by Jacqueline Winspear

  In the latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse. August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young... (more)
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  The Map That Changed the World

  William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

  by Simon Winchester

  In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Determined to expose what... (more)
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  The Island of Lost Maps

  A True Story of Cartographic Crime

  by Miles Harvey

  The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked... (more)
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  The Mapmaker's Wife

  A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon

  by Robert Whitaker

  The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From this extraordinary journey arose an unlikely love between one scientist and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international... (more)
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  The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: Book 1

  Here, There Be Dragons

  by James A. Owen

  The Imaginarium Geographica"What is it?" John asked.The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow."It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose."An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first... (more)
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  Atlas of Remote Islands

  by Judith Schalansky

  A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island,... (more)
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  Maps of the Imagination

  The Writer as Cartographer

  by Peter Turchi

  What can German globe makers, British cartographers, the Marx brothers, and Roadrunner cartoons tell us about writers from Sappho to Italo Calvino? According to fiction writer Peter Turchi both cartographers and writers draw from the same well of creativity, curiosity, and adventuresome spirit. "To ask for a map," says Turchi, "is to say, 'Tell me a story.'" In Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer,... (more)
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  Mapping the World

  An Illustrated History of Cartography

  by Ralph E. Ehrenberg

  Mapping the World is a one-of-a-kind collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures, from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth, seas, and the skies above. With more than one hundred maps and other illustrations and an introduction and running commentary by Ralph E. Ehrenberg, this book tells a fascinating story of... (more)
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  Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

  by Nicholas Crane

  “Crane’s book is quite probably destined to become the standard text.”—Simon Winchester, The New York Times Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of the exploratory vortex were the cartographers who were painstakingly piecing together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them. His... (more)
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  The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: Book 4

  The Shadow Dragons

  by James A. Owen

  War is coming in the fourth entry of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica. The Winter King’s Shadow is using the Spear of Destiny to make a shadow army in the Archipelago of Dreams, while World War II looms in the real world. As the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica meet with past legendary Caretakers, the Grail Child and her companions search for a mythic sword. The literary allusions are still... (more)
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  Philip's Atlas of World History (Historical Atlas)

  by Patrick O'Brien

  Traces 12,000 years of history with 450 full color maps and over 200,000 words of text. In addition, more than 200 illustrations and tables complement the fascinating chronological narrative written by dozens premiere scholars.
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  The Nautical Chart

  by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Coy is a sailor without a ship.Tánger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Piloto is an old man with the sailboat on which all three set out to seek their fortune together. Or do they?
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  Cities: Then & Now

  by Jim Antoniou

  History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions in this richly illustrated series. Cities: Then & Now documents how places such as Rome, Prague, and San Francisco appeared in their initial changes and how they have changed throughout history.
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  The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named

  by John Keay

  The Great Indian Arc of the Meridian, begun in 1800, was the longest maesurement of the earth's surface ever to have been attempted. Its 1,600 miles of inch-perfect survey took nearly fifty years. Hailed as "one of the most stupendous works in the history of science," it was also one of the most perilous. Snowy mountains and tropical jungles, floods and fevers, tigers and scorpions all took their toll on the band... (more)
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  How to Lie with Maps (2nd Edition)

  by Mark Monmonier

  Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must. The second edition is updated with the addition of two new chapters, 10 color plates, and a new... (more)
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  Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past

  by Jeremy Black

  This book-the first comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the historical atlas-explores the role, development, and nature of this important reference and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
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  Geography of Nowhere

  The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

  by James Howard Kunstler

  The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon architecture and parking lots. In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in... (more)
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  The Agile Rabbit Book of Historical And Curious Maps

  by Pepin Press

  This book contains stunning images for use as a graphic resource, or inspiration. All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image-... (more)
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  The Geographer's Library

  by Jon Fasman

  Jon Fasman’s dizzyingly plotted intellectual thriller suggests a marriage between Dan Brown and Donna Tartt. When reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a reclusive academic, he finds himself pursuing leads that date back to the twelfth century and the theft of alchemical instruments from the geographer of the Sicilian court. Now someone is trying to retrieve them. Interspersed with... (more)