Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Autor Thomas Reinertsen Berg Traducere de Alison McCulloughen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 dec 2018
A
beautifully
illustrated
full-color
history
of
mapmaking
across
centuries--
a
must-read
for
history
buffs
and
armchair
travelers.
Theater
of
the
Worldoffers
a
fascinating
history
of
mapmaking,
using
the
visual
representation
of
the
world
through
time
to
tell
a
new
story
about
world
history
and
the
men
who
made
it.
Thomas
Reinertsen
Berg
takes
us
all
the
way
from
the
mysterious
symbols
of
the
Stone
Age
to
Google
Earth,
exploring
how
the
ability
to
envision
what
the
world
looked
like
developed
hand
in
hand
with
worldwide
exploration.
Along
the
way,
we
meet
visionary
geographers
and
heroic
explorers
along
with
other
unknown
heroes
of
the
map-making
world,
both
ancient
and
modern.
And
the
stunning
visual
material
allows
us
to
witness
the
extraordinary
breadth
of
this
history
with
our
own
eye
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316450768
ISBN-10: 0316450766
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 191 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316450766
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 191 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.13 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Thomas
Reinertsen
Berg
is
a
Norwegian
journalist
and
writer.
He
has
written
for
several
Norwegian
papers
includingMorgenbladet,KlassekampenandDagsavisen.Theater
of
the
World,
his
first
book,
was
honored
with
the
2017
Brageprisen,
an
award
given
annually
to
Norway's
premier
non-fiction
book.
Recenzii
"A
fascinating
book
that
I
will
always
treasure."—Sir
Ranulph
Fiennes
"This wonderful book is a reminder of how much careful thought was given to the shape of the world even in ancient times - the landscape, how places are related to one another. I pored over these maps for hours, imagining those minds hard at work, visualising how it all connected as a whole. Just brilliant."—Neil Oliver
"In his gorgeous book, 'Theater of the World,' Thomas Reinertsen Berg provides dozens of full-color maps along with fascinating details about the history of attempts to represent geographical space...Readers can expect to spend happy hours with this book, tracing routes and reading reports of adventuring navigators."—Lorraine Berry,The Washington Post
"Thomas Reinertsen Berg's THEATER OF THE WORLD: The Maps that Made History is a thorough study of cartography, past and present. But more than that, it's an exploration of what maps mean and why we'll never stop trying to document the world arounds us."—Hannah Walhout,Travel + Leisure
"This engagingly Illustrated four-color history detailing mapmaking from the antiquities to the modern day is a treasure-trove for real and armchair travelers."—John J. Kelly,The Detroit Free Press
"Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with piece-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield'sOn the Mapand Jerry Brotton'sA History of the World in Twelve Mapsin the field of popular reaffirmations of the ingenuity of geography."
—Travis Elborough, The Spectator
"This beautiful collection of historic maps will resonate with folks prone to wanderlust and those longing for a sense of place. A Norwegian journalist mines the human desire to explore while sharing lush cartography from the Stone Age to the age of exploration to modern satellite imagery."—Garden & Gun
"Armchair travelers and international adventurers follow maps around the world, and in this handsome and compelling book, Norwegian journalist and writer Berg focuses on the creation of maps. Segueing from Stone to Internet Age, he relates stories of how maps were created, reflected value judgments, and shifted over time. Berg's idiosyncratic book is not merely a collection of maps but rather a cartographic history - a rich, diverse story of how art, technology, and human impulses jostle, with mapping and money hand in hand, raising the question of whether Google is too dominant a force in the map service business."—The National Book Review
"The visual exploration that isTheater of the World: The Maps that Made Historymakes for the perfect bonding experience with you and your pops...Feast your eyes on the vibrant history of mapmaking and its illustrated evolution across centuries. Best enjoyed amongst history buffs in a cigar-filled study with leather armchairs."—Jahla Seppanen,The Manual
"Visually stunning...it's gone straight to the top of my Christmas present list."—The Bookseller
"This wonderful book is a reminder of how much careful thought was given to the shape of the world even in ancient times - the landscape, how places are related to one another. I pored over these maps for hours, imagining those minds hard at work, visualising how it all connected as a whole. Just brilliant."—Neil Oliver
"In his gorgeous book, 'Theater of the World,' Thomas Reinertsen Berg provides dozens of full-color maps along with fascinating details about the history of attempts to represent geographical space...Readers can expect to spend happy hours with this book, tracing routes and reading reports of adventuring navigators."—Lorraine Berry,The Washington Post
"Thomas Reinertsen Berg's THEATER OF THE WORLD: The Maps that Made History is a thorough study of cartography, past and present. But more than that, it's an exploration of what maps mean and why we'll never stop trying to document the world arounds us."—Hannah Walhout,Travel + Leisure
"This engagingly Illustrated four-color history detailing mapmaking from the antiquities to the modern day is a treasure-trove for real and armchair travelers."—John J. Kelly,The Detroit Free Press
"Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with piece-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield'sOn the Mapand Jerry Brotton'sA History of the World in Twelve Mapsin the field of popular reaffirmations of the ingenuity of geography."
—Travis Elborough, The Spectator
"This beautiful collection of historic maps will resonate with folks prone to wanderlust and those longing for a sense of place. A Norwegian journalist mines the human desire to explore while sharing lush cartography from the Stone Age to the age of exploration to modern satellite imagery."—Garden & Gun
"Armchair travelers and international adventurers follow maps around the world, and in this handsome and compelling book, Norwegian journalist and writer Berg focuses on the creation of maps. Segueing from Stone to Internet Age, he relates stories of how maps were created, reflected value judgments, and shifted over time. Berg's idiosyncratic book is not merely a collection of maps but rather a cartographic history - a rich, diverse story of how art, technology, and human impulses jostle, with mapping and money hand in hand, raising the question of whether Google is too dominant a force in the map service business."—The National Book Review
"The visual exploration that isTheater of the World: The Maps that Made Historymakes for the perfect bonding experience with you and your pops...Feast your eyes on the vibrant history of mapmaking and its illustrated evolution across centuries. Best enjoyed amongst history buffs in a cigar-filled study with leather armchairs."—Jahla Seppanen,The Manual
"Visually stunning...it's gone straight to the top of my Christmas present list."—The Bookseller