Maps Of The Imagination: The Writer As Cartographer

Traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. This book describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper.

• | By (Author): Peter Turchi
• | Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
• | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2007
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1595340416
• | ISBN-13: 9781595340412