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Great maps / Jerry Brotton.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
526.09 BROT	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781409345718 (hardback)
ISBN	1409345718 (hardback)
Name	Brotton, Jerry author.
Title	Great maps / Jerry Brotton.
Published	London : Dorling Kindersley, 2014.
Published	©2014
Description	256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 31 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the "land of no sunshine" or the land of "people with no bowels"? This book looks at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth.
Subjects	Cartography -- History
Subjects	Historical geography
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Cartography -- History . Historical geography . See Also: Geography . History . Authors: Brotton, Jerry .