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c2003., Doubleday Canada Call No: Bio T4694j Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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-- 4th part of the world.By Lester, Toby2009., Free Press Call No: 912.7 L642f Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More... Summary Note: A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation.
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-- Canada in ten maps :2018., Adult, Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: 911.71 S559h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never been told before. Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose--it invites us to go somewhere we've never been. It's an account of what we know, but also a trace of what we long for. Ten Maps conjures the world as it appeared to those who were called upon to map it. What would the new world look like to wandering Vikings, who thought they had drifted into a land of mythical creatures, or Samuel de Champlain, who had no idea of the vastness of the landmass just beyond the treeline? Adam Shoalts, one of Canada's foremost explorers, tells the stories behind these centuries old maps, and how they came to shape what became "Canada." It's a story that will surprise readers, and reveal the Canada we never knew was hidden. It brings to life the characters and the bloody disputes that forged our history, by showing us what the world looked like before it entered the history books. Combining storytelling, cartography, geography, archaeology and of course history, this book shows us Canada in a way we've never seen it before.
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-- Mister Selden's map of China :2013., Adult, House of Anansi Press Call No: 912.164 B871m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time. In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP, and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was "a puzzle that had to be solved": an exceptional artefact so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe. And it raises as many question as it answers: Who re-imagined the world in this way and, most importantly, what can it tell us about the world at that time?"--Provided by publisher.
