Great city maps
2016
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Step onto the streets of cities around the world, and understand the cultures and civilisations that created them with 'Great City Maps'. This beautifully illustrated book explores the world's most celebrated historical city maps. Richly detailed ancient and modern maps of important cities take you on a journey across the globe in stunning detail, from Athens to Alexandria and Cape Town to Cairo, with close up views of each city's most intriguing features. 'Great City Maps' gives you more than just a bird's-eye-view, telling the tales behind the city from the hubs of ancient civilisation to modern mega-cities. Follow the history of maps and their stories, with profiles of iconic cartographers and artists showing you who created each map, how, and why.
Main title:
Great city maps / editors, Victoria Heyworth-Dunne, Ruth O'Rourke-Jones, Debra Wolter.
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2016.London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2016.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780241238981 (hbk)
Dewey class:
912.19732
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1606912