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Author : John G. Iliff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maps Illustrating Ancient History written by John G. Iliff and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Aurel Stein
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Memoir on Maps Illustrating the Ancient Geography of Kaśmīr written by Sir Aurel Stein and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789373
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Author : Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mapping the World written by Ralph E. Ehrenberg and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.
Author : MARCUS WILLSON
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Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book OUTLINES OF HISTORY. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES AN MAPS EMBRACING PART I._ANCIENT HISTORY. PART II._MODERNHISTORY. PART III._OUTLINES OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. written by MARCUS WILLSON and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcius WILLSON
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Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Outlines of History; illustrated by numerous geographical and historical notes and maps ... School edition written by Marcius WILLSON and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 145216844X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book The Phantom Atlas written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas
Author : Jessica Maier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659159X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Eternal City written by Jessica Maier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city’s allure is due as much to its rich, unbroken history as to its extraordinary array of landmarks. Countless incarnations and eras merge in the Roman cityscape. With a history spanning nearly three millennia, no other place can quite match the resilience and reinventions of the aptly nicknamed Eternal City. In this unique and visually engaging book, Jessica Maier considers Rome through the eyes of mapmakers and artists who have managed to capture something of its essence over the centuries. Viewing the city as not one but ten “Romes,” she explores how the varying maps and art reflect each era’s key themes. Ranging from modest to magnificent, the images comprise singular aesthetic monuments like paintings and grand prints as well as more popular and practical items like mass-produced tourist plans, archaeological surveys, and digitizations. The most iconic and important images of the city appear alongside relatively obscure, unassuming items that have just as much to teach us about Rome’s past. Through 140 full-color images and thoughtful overviews of each era, Maier provides an accessible, comprehensive look at Rome’s many overlapping layers of history in this landmark volume. The first English-language book to tell Rome’s rich story through its maps, The Eternal City beautifully captures the past, present, and future of one of the most famous and enduring places on the planet.
Author : Robert Fowler Leighton
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Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of Rome written by Robert Fowler Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander G. Findlay
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Classical Atlas, to Illustrate Ancient Geography written by Alexander G. Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 728 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Davies
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336812269X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The History and Literature of the Stuart Period written by J. Davies and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : John Jacob Anderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Manual of General History written by John Jacob Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Jacob Anderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Common School History of the United States written by John Jacob Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368828797
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book A Grammar School History of the United States written by John Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
