Author: Ana Deboo
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403467935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Modern life depends on travel, and travel depends on accurate maps. How did we learn to map the waters and skies? This book helps explain the history and modern use of maps of water and air.
Mapping the Seas and Skies
Author: Ana Deboo
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403467935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Modern life depends on travel, and travel depends on accurate maps. How did we learn to map the waters and skies? This book helps explain the history and modern use of maps of water and air.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403467935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Modern life depends on travel, and travel depends on accurate maps. How did we learn to map the waters and skies? This book helps explain the history and modern use of maps of water and air.
Understanding Maps: Charting the Land, Sea, and Sky
Author: Beulah Tannenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Material on the fundamentals of mapmaking, on the problems of mapping the sea and the sky as well as the land, on many special types of maps as well as on the basic maps of the world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Material on the fundamentals of mapmaking, on the problems of mapping the sea and the sky as well as the land, on many special types of maps as well as on the basic maps of the world.
Understanding Maps: Charting the Land, Sea, and Sky
Author: Beulah Tannenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Material on the fundamentals of mapmaking, on the problems of mapping the sea and the sky as well as the land, on many special types of maps as well as on the basic maps of the world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Material on the fundamentals of mapmaking, on the problems of mapping the sea and the sky as well as the land, on many special types of maps as well as on the basic maps of the world.
Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes; Or, Wanderings in Search of Weather ... Maps and Illustrations
Author: Ralph ABERCROMBY (Hon.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes
Author: Ralph Abercromby
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Sea Monsters
Author: Joseph Nigg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
Mapping the World
Author: Ana Deboo
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403467966
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An introduction to map reading that focuses on where and how people live in the world, discussing political, time zone, thematic, and historical maps. Includes related activity.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403467966
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An introduction to map reading that focuses on where and how people live in the world, discussing political, time zone, thematic, and historical maps. Includes related activity.
Understanding Maps: Charting the Land, Sea, and Sky
Author: Beulah Tannenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Tracks in the Sea
Author: Chester G. Hearn
Publisher: International Marine Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: International Marine Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher Description
A Guide to American Defenders of Land, Sea & Sky
Author: Patricia A. Bonner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description