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464 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847658555
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Profile Books
Publication date: 04 October 2012
Description
With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery...
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464 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781847658555
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Profile Books
Publication date: 04 October 2012
Description
With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery...