Mapping the world
Subtitle: stories of geography
By: Caroline & Martine Laffon
Contributors: Laffon, Martine
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Richmond Hill, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781554075256
Subjects: Cartographie; Cartography; Historical geography; Histoire; Maps; Cartographes; Cartographers; History; Pictorial works; Geography
Work titles: Dessiner le monde
Notes: First published: Paris : Seuil, c2008, under title: Dessiner le monde : histoires de géographie

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-187).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Where are we?; title: Step by step. Daydreaming about the world ; Tiny cosmos ; Holy places ; Navels of the world ; From one point to another ; Spheres and poles; title: Geographers in the field. Finding one's bearings ; Scholarly calculations ; Every which way ; Blown by the winds ; On the road; title: On a global scale. Landscape images ;  Mountains and marvels ; The glory of the kingdom ; Lay of the land ; Following the flow ; Foreign seas; title: Personal projections. Order and disorder ; Battle plans ; Organizing the resistance ; Power of persuasion ; Point of view ; Traveling the world ; The conquest of space. And beyond? ; Climbing to the sky ; Head in the clouds ; From the earth to the moon ; Views from above.