TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brotton, Jerry
TI  - Great maps: the world's masterpieces explored and explained 
SN  - 9781409345718
AV  - GA 201 .B76 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Dorling Kindersley
KW  - HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
N1  - Includes index; Classical maps 1500BCE-1300CE -- Discovery and travel 1300-1570 -- New Directions and beliefs 1570-1750 -- Thematic maps 1750-1900 -- Modern mapping 1900 to present
N2  - Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the "land of no sunshine" or the land of "people with no bowels"? This book examines the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth
ER  -