The Mapmaker's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mapmaker's War write by Ronlyn Domingue. This book was released on 2014-03-18. The Mapmaker's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After being given an apprenticeship to chart her entire kingdom, young Aoife encounters a secretive culture of wealthy and peaceful people who she protects by enduring a harrowing exile.
Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War
Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War write by Earl B. McElfresh. This book was released on 1999-10. Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Civil War, a good map could spell the difference between victory and defeat. This book collects the war's most notable, interesting, and beautiful maps--and tells the story of how they were made. Ranging from exquisitely detailed renderings reproduced in full color to rough pencil sketches drawn from horseback, these maps are both striking works of art and invaluable historical artifacts. The anecdotal text explains the techniques and travails of mapmaking during the war and reveals the little-known cartographic exploits of George Armstrong Custer, writer Ambrose Bierce, and Brooklyn Bridge engineer Washington Roebling, among many others.
The Mapmakers' Quest
The Mapmakers' Quest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mapmakers' Quest write by David Buisseret. This book was released on 2003-05-22. The Mapmakers' Quest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eminent historian of cartography offers this Iavishly illustrated account of the mapmaking revolution in Renaissance Europe. 78 halftones. 12 color plates.
The Mapmakers
The Mapmakers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mapmakers write by John Noble Wilford. This book was released on 2001-12-04. The Mapmakers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, through to the expeditions of Columbus and Magellan, John Noble Wilford chronicles the exploits of the great pioneers of mapmaking. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers—including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West—whose achievements shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity.
The Mapmaker's Daughter
The Mapmaker's Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mapmaker's Daughter write by Laurel Corona. This book was released on 2014-03-04. The Mapmaker's Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Vividly detailed and beautifully written, this is a pleasure to read, a thoughtful, deeply engaging story of the power of faith to navigate history's rough terrain."—Booklist How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility of the world, outlined in the beautiful pen and ink maps her father created. But the world has shifted and contracted since then. The Mapmaker's Daughter is a stirring novel about identity, exile, and what it means to be home. "A close look at the great costs and greater rewards of being true to who you really are. A lyrical journey to the time when the Jews of Spain were faced with the wrenching choice of deciding their future as Jews—a pivotal period of history and inspiration today."—Margaret George, New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth I "The many twists and turns in the life of the mapmaker's daughter, Amalia, mirror the tenuous and harrowing journey of the Jewish community in fifteenth-century Iberia, showing how family and faith overcame even the worst the Inquisition could inflict on them."—Anne Easter Smith, author of Royal Mistress and A Rose for the Crown "A powerful love story ignites these pages, making the reader yearn for more as they come to know Amalia and Jamil, two of the most compelling characters in recent historical fiction. An absolute must-read!"—Michelle Moran, author of The Second Empress and Madam Tussaud
