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Daniel Dorling & David Fairbairn
Mapping [EPUB ebook]
Ways of Representing the World

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Illustrates how maps tell us as much about the people and the powers which create them, as about the places they show. Presents historical and contemporary evidence of how the human urge to describe, understand and control the world is presented through the medium of mapping, together with the individual and environmental constraints of the creator of the map.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781317888345 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2811752 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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