Isbn: 9780684127255 - discovery; developing views of the earth from ancient times to the voyages of captain cook (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. Includes dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: About Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in blue cloth w/silver spine titles. Fine book in Near Fine clipped DJ w/wear at crown, creased front flap, now in clear protective cover. 216pp inc. Index; illustrated in maps, drawings. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: VG / VG. Hardcover in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. An about very good exlib copy in a bright and clean wrapper. Light shelf and extremity wear. The binding remains firm. The corners are bumped and the bottom ones have rubbed through. Internally, the usual markings. The text remains unobstructed. A copy which remains in above average reading condition. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and unclipped DJ in VG condition. 6 X 9 inches, 216 pages. First Edition with letter "A" on copyright page. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. There is a personal inscription on the half title page signed by "Jack" whom I am presuming is the author John Parker. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine lightly sun-faded. Black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 216 pages.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth covered boards with bright silver titling on spine. No ownership inscription. vii, 216 pages clean and tight. Where are we?-That deceptively simple question has provided the impetus for an often hazardous and always exciting searching-out of the world ever since man's first perception of his place in it. From a Sumerian town map to the fantasy-populated provinces that lay beyond the Pillars of Heracles, from a lost Land of Promise to Newfoundland, from ancient times to the eighteenth century when Cook's voyages effectively concluded the "drawing of the earth," scholars and seamen, statesmen and merchants have devoted their energies to making the unknown known. And if, more often than not, reasons of economy or expansion justified their explorations, still the primary moving force must have been that curiosity about where we stand in relation to the rest of the universe which leads our explorers of space to look back and photograph and measure the earth in the long tradition of geographers, for "the course of history" has meant changing spatial concepts as well as changing times. Dr. Parker's narrative is eminently readable; the maps and drawings provide immediate interpretations of the concepts and explorations he describes in his text. In the interlocking of text and map, he puts together a case for the study of geography as an evolution in knowledge so convincing it may prove revolutionary to any reader who has hitherto thought that geography had to be dull. Size: 8vo. Maps & Drawings (illustrator).…

1st Ed. VIII, 216 PP with 34 illustrations (maps & drawings). Hard cover, library binding (reinforced), dj. Very good. 23.4 x 15.7. Geography within the culture of Western civilization and how the lands and seas were discovered. From the Sumerian map of Nippur to the exploration of the Pacific.

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