Coast Lines
Subtitle: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinios, USA
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780226534039
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: vii; title: Preface and Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: 1
pagenum: 1
title: Depiction and Measurement; label: 2
pagenum: 13
title: Definitions and Delineations; label: 3
pagenum: 28
title: New Worlds and Fictitious Islands; label: 4
pagenum: 42
title: Triangles and Topography; label: 5
pagenum: 58
title: Overhead Imaging; label: 6
pagenum: 70
title: Electronic Charts and Precise Positioning; label: 7
pagenum: 86
title: Global Shorelines; label: 8
pagenum: 102
title: Baselines and Offshore Borders; label: 9
pagenum: 116
title: Calibrating Catastrophe; label: 10
pagenum: 131
title: Rising Seas, Eroding Surge; label: 11
pagenum: 147
title: Close-ups and Complexity; label: 12
pagenum: 163
title: Epilogue; title: Notes
pagenum: 167; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 193; title: Index
pagenum: 215