The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book - Softcover

Parker, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712352996 ISBN 13: 9780712352994

Verlag: British Library Publishing, 2020

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The British Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys, and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples ranging from world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps, curiosities and fake maps have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book. Each map is faithfully reproduced with a description of its creation and use, followed by details showing areas of particular interest. Readers are asked to scrutinize the maps to answer a series of historical and geographical questions, all the while enjoying new perspectives on the world we live in provided by our eclectic and extensive archive.

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Philip Parker is a former diplomat and publisher who specializes in the late antique and early medieval periods. Philip ran the The Times series of mapping titles at HarperCollins publishers. Philip's most recent books are The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World, The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual, and The Collins History of Britain in Maps.

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Discover the world's greatest maps as never before in the most fiendishly difficult cartographic quiz book.

The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book invites the reader to embark upon a thrilling journey from the streets of ancient Rome to the vastness of Canada's Arctic North, from pre-Revolutionary New York to the trenches of the First World War and from Germany's emerging Autobahn network to the craters on the far side of the moon.

En route, decipher a series of increasingly difficult clues, place-name conundrums, ingenious anagrams and cryptic questions. Use your answers to scrutinise the maps, locate the right spot and guide you to the realm of geographical genius.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: British Library Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0712352996
• ISBN 13: 9780712352994
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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