Cartography, Map-making & Projections

Presenting the best poems from the nationwide Places of Poetry project, selected from over 7,500 entries Poetry lives in the veins of Britain, its...

Scotlands Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adu...

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europe...

How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should ...

An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book,...

What is a drink map? It may sound like a pub guide, yet it actually refers to a type of late nineteenth-century British map designed specifically t...

Thousands of global facts at your fingertips with the best value quick-reference World Atlas on the market. Both physical and political geography i...

What is Europe, and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term Europe circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this com...

This innovative atlas deconstructs the contemporary image of the NorthSouth divide between developed and underdeveloped countries which was establi...

Learn how to get better answers in map analysis when you use spatial measurements and statistics.  Spatial measurements and statistics give you a p...

This authoritative, reader-friendly text presents core principles of good map design that apply regardless of production methods or technical appro...

Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the ...

If you have any interest in information graphics, maps, or history, you know of the seminal flow map of Napoleons 1812 march into Russia by Charles...

Although the ultimate prize of the Great Game played out between Great Britain and Imperial Russia in the 19th century was India, most of the intri...

In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of E...

Antonio García Cubass Carta general of 1857, the first published map of the independent Mexican nation-state, represented the countrys geographic c...

Explore new places with dependable maps from Collins. This brand new edition retains the delightful water-colour mapping, with individual...

A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.If you have ever wondered why an airliner b...

This accessible text prepares students to understand and work with geographic information systems (GIS), offering a detailed introduction to essent...

The twenty intriguing journeys and routes featured in this book range from distances of a few miles to great adventures across land, sea, air and s...

Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic mat...

 This book focuses on cartographies as epistemology and visual strategy, highlighting three major axes: corporeal, affective, and nomadic learning....

A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space   Maps are rarely given the s...

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeus Atlas Maiorthat being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of ma...

Maps go far beyond just showing us where things are located. All Mapped Out is an exploration of how maps impact our lives on social and cultural l...

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a n...

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Count...

An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada. During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was ...

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nat...

Explore new places with handy pocket maps from Collins. Handy little full-colour map of the Isle of Wight. Detailed mapping and tourist i...

Explore new places with handy pocket maps from Collins. Handy full-colour map of Irelands Wild Atlantic Way with a high level of detail. ...