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The Library of Lost Maps

লেখক / Author: James Cheshire

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Join renowned geographer James Cheshire on a tour through a forgotten collection of maps that shaped over 200 years of Western history. Tucked just beyond offices and a lecture hall in the heart of London lies a turquoise door. Intrigued, James Cheshire stepped through and was astonished by what he found inside: thousands of maps and atlases, spilling out of wooden drawers. It was a map library. In The Library of Lost Maps, Cheshire transports us to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the library's maps were wielded for war and negotiated during peace; when its charts traced, for the first time, the icy peaks of the Himalayas. Maps have played a vital role in shaping our scientific knowledge of the world, inspiring the theory of plate tectonics and showing the impact of climate…

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pages: 427

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781526676597

ISBN-10: 1526676591