Mapping the World
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780689818134
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Reference - General; History - Other; Geography, Ancient; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Reference - Atlases; Children: Grades 4-6; Maps; Science & Nature - Earth Sciences; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Technology / Earth Sciences; History - General; Cartography; History
First sentence: In 1962, John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, looked down from his Mercury spacecraft and commented that he could see the features of the planet "laid out just like on a map."