Cartographia

Author: Vincent Virga
Edition:
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0316997668

Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations

CARTOGRAPHIA offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important, and fascinating maps in existence, from the world's largest cartographic collection, at the Library of Congress. Download Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. These maps show how our idea of the world has shifted and grown over time, and each map tells its own unique story about nations, politics, and ambitions. The chosen images, with their accompanying stories, introduce the reader to an exciting new way of "reading" maps as travelogues---living history from the earliest of man's imaginings about planet earth to our current attempts at charting cyberspace.

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