The Story Of Maps
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few disciplines reveal the ambitions, anxieties, and intellectual courage of civilisation quite like cartography — and Lloyd A. Brown's The Story of Maps stands as the definitive chronicle of mankind's centuries-long quest to render the world in ink and line. From the earliest Babylonian clay tablets and Ptolemy's ancient grid systems to the daring nautical surveys of the Age of Exploration, Brown traces the evolution of mapmaking as both a science and an art, illustrating how each era's geographical knowledge — and its profound ignorance — shaped empires, trade routes, and the very boundaries of the known world. Brown writes with the authority of a seasoned historian and the precision of a cartographic scholar, presenting a sweeping narrative that is as much about the human imagination as it is about latitude and longitude. The Story of Maps argues persuasively that every map is, at its core, a portrait of its time — a record of what humanity believed, feared, and dared to discover. Rich with detailed accounts of the great cartographers, navigators, and astronomers whose work transformed blank spaces into charted territory, this landmark work leaves the reader with a profound and lingering question: what uncharted territories, literal or otherwise, still await the mapmaker's pen?
Author: Lloyd A. Brown
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Little, Brown and Company
Genre: History
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few disciplines reveal the ambitions, anxieties, and intellectual courage of civilisation quite like cartography — and Lloyd A. Brown's The Story of Maps stands as the definitive chronicle of mankind's centuries-long quest to render the world in ink and line. From the earliest Babylonian clay tablets and Ptolemy's ancient grid systems to the daring nautical surveys of the Age of Exploration, Brown traces the evolution of mapmaking as both a science and an art, illustrating how each era's geographical knowledge — and its profound ignorance — shaped empires, trade routes, and the very boundaries of the known world. Brown writes with the authority of a seasoned historian and the precision of a cartographic scholar, presenting a sweeping narrative that is as much about the human imagination as it is about latitude and longitude. The Story of Maps argues persuasively that every map is, at its core, a portrait of its time — a record of what humanity believed, feared, and dared to discover. Rich with detailed accounts of the great cartographers, navigators, and astronomers whose work transformed blank spaces into charted territory, this landmark work leaves the reader with a profound and lingering question: what uncharted territories, literal or otherwise, still await the mapmaker's pen?