Author: Richard L. Betz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. Volume 7 in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies.
The Mapping of Africa
Author: Richard L. Betz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. Volume 7 in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. Volume 7 in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies.
Africa Is Not a Country
Author: Margy Burns Knight
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0761316477
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0761316477
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
Africa
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789280728712
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This stunning 400-page Atlas is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment that provide scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. The observations and measurements of environmental change help gauge the extent of progress made by African countries towards reaching the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation, and should be of immense value to all those who want to know more about Africa and who care about the future of this continent.
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789280728712
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This stunning 400-page Atlas is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment that provide scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. The observations and measurements of environmental change help gauge the extent of progress made by African countries towards reaching the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation, and should be of immense value to all those who want to know more about Africa and who care about the future of this continent.
Printed Maps of the Continent of Africa and Regional Maps South of the Tropic of Cancer
Author: Ronald Vere Tooley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Antique Maps
Author: Carl Moreland
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A standard reference work and collector's guide to old maps. Antique Maps is now firmly established as a definitive reference work. With extensive information on the general historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps, it provides an excellent introduction for the beginner as well as a mass of precise and clearly organized information for the expert and the serious collector. A beautiful edition in itself, this timeless volume evokes the elegance of maps from the past and the charm of all the distant places they suggest, to show them not only as historical artefacts but also as works of art.
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A standard reference work and collector's guide to old maps. Antique Maps is now firmly established as a definitive reference work. With extensive information on the general historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps, it provides an excellent introduction for the beginner as well as a mass of precise and clearly organized information for the expert and the serious collector. A beautiful edition in itself, this timeless volume evokes the elegance of maps from the past and the charm of all the distant places they suggest, to show them not only as historical artefacts but also as works of art.
Bodies and Maps
Author: Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
The Marvel of Maps
Author: Francesca Fiorani
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.
Maps and Mapping of Africa
Author: John McIlwaine
Publisher: Zell
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher: Zell
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
My Head Is A Map
Author:
Publisher: Kunstpedia Foundation
ISBN: 9081654217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Publisher: Kunstpedia Foundation
ISBN: 9081654217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Collectors' Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa
Author: Ronald Vere Tooley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description