Nicholas Crane
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator"
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
An enthralling biography of the man who created the first real map of the world and changed civilization
Born at the dawn of the age of discovery, Gerhard Mercator lived in an era of formidable intellectual and scientific advances. At the center of these developments were the cartographers who painstakingly pieced together the evidence to create ever more accurate pictures of the planet. Mercator was the greatest of all of them-a poor farm boy who...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Divided by geographical region, the Barefoot books world atlas looks atlas looks at the way in which communities and cultures across the world have been shaped by their local environment. An atlas for the twenty-first century, it shows how all parts of the planet are interconnected and looks at the ideas and initiatives which are helping to shape a sustainable future." --Back cover.
