Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val Ross (HC)

Description: Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children’s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonNamed Notable Book by the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction categoryRoad maps; sailor’s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts – to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.Here are some of the unexpected stories of history’s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London’s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars.With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.

Price: 10 USD

Location: Schenectady, New York

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Item must be returned within: 30 Days

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Type: Textbook

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Original Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada

Book Title: Road to there : Mapmakers and Their Stories

Number of Pages: 152 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Tundra Book Group

Topic: History / Exploration & Discovery, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Science & Nature / Earth Sciences / Geography, History / General

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2003

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction

Item Weight: 14.4 Oz

Item Length: 9.1 in

Author: Val Ross

Item Width: 7.3 in

Format: Hardcover