num_pages: 152
description: This NEW book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. Its got over 70 illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, a Toronto-centered equidistant map of the world, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading (Petit's African Diaspora map). We've reproduced a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950's) and have the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective projection. It a book designed to reveal the "hidden agendas" of maps. BUT its a book about far more than cartography -- it shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of DIFFERENT perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view (other countries, other cultures, other peoples and other times).
language: English
title: Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View
titlecomplete: Seeing Through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View
ratings_count: 13
publisher: O D T Inc