Great Maps superbly illustrates maps from all around the world, analyzing each map visually with the help of pull-outs and graphic close-up details. It traces the history of maps chronologically, featuring key cartographers and telling the story behind each map: why it was created, who it was for, and how it was achieved. This amazing guide draws together navigation, propaganda...(展开全部)

About Great Maps This beautifully illustrated book showcases more than 60 of the greatest maps ever made, from the ancient Babylonian map carved on a stone tablet, through medieval maps such as the mappa mundi to the modern satellite images of Google Earth. Drawing upon geography, science, exploration, art, culture, and mythology, maps have existed almost as long as the human r...(展开全部)

About Great Maps This beautifully illustrated book showcases more than 60 of the greatest maps ever made, from the ancient Babylonian map carved on a stone tablet, through medieval maps such as the mappa mundi to the modern satellite images of Google Earth. Drawing upon geography, science, exploration, art, culture, and mythology, maps have existed almost as long as the human r...(展开全部)

Great Maps superbly illustrates maps from all around the world, analyzing each map visually with the help of pull-outs and graphic close-up details. It traces the history of maps chronologically, featuring key cartographers and telling the story behind each map: why it was created, who it was for, and how it was achieved. This amazing guide draws together navigation, propaganda...(展开全部)

瓦尔·威廉姆斯（Val Williams）是伦敦传播学院和伦敦艺术大学的摄影文化与历史学教授以及摄影和档案研究中心主任。她曾策划了1994年在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆举行的“战争作品”（Warworks）展，1998年在国家摄影博物馆举行了“新自然历史”（New Natural History）展，2002年在巴比肯艺术馆举行了“马丁·帕尔摄影作品”（Martin Parr Photographic Works）展，以及2007年在英国塔特美术馆举行了“我们怎样：影像英国”（How We Are: Photographing Britain）展。 2005年，她因策展活动而获得了由皇家摄影协会颁布的达德利·约翰斯顿奖章。她还是2008年开始推出的《摄影与文化杂志》的主笔。她之前出版的作品包括《谁在关注家庭？》（1994），《马丁·帕尔：摄影作品197...(展开全部)

瓦尔·威廉姆斯（Val Williams）是伦敦传播学院和伦敦艺术大学的摄影文化与历史学教授以及摄影和档案研究中心主任。她曾策划了1994年在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆举行的“战争作品”（Warworks）展，1998年在国家摄影博物馆举行了“新自然历史”（New Natural History）展，2002年在巴比肯艺术馆举行了“马丁·帕尔摄影作品”（Martin Parr Photographic Works）展，以及2007年在英国塔特美术馆举行了“我们怎样：影像英国”（How We Are: Photographing Britain）展。 2005年，她因策展活动而获得了由皇家摄影协会颁布的达德利·约翰斯顿奖章。她还是2008年开始推出的《摄影与文化杂志》的主笔。她之前出版的作品包括《谁在关注家庭？》（1994），《马丁·帕尔：摄影作品197...(展开全部)

Aided by this book the gardener can now answer the question "What's in a name?" and they and their garden will benefirt from understanding the wealth of information that has hitherto lain hidden within the myserious world of Latin names.' - Financial Times Online RHS Latin for Gardeners is an informative, entertaining and beautifully illustrated unravelling of the mysteries of ...(展开全部)

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and Eng...(展开全部)

Surekha Davies is a cultural historian and historian of science at Western Connecticut State University. Her interests include exploration, observational sciences, cultural encounters, monstrosity and the history of mentalities c.1400–1800. Formerly a British Library Curator and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, she is a Founding Editor of the series 'Maps, Spaces, Cultures' (B...(展开全部)

安迪·潘克赫斯特（Andy Pankhurst） 曾就读伦敦的斯莱德艺术学院（Slade School of Fine Art）。作为一名深刻的表现主义具象画家，他的作品在英国和美国各类美术馆和博物馆均有展出。目前，他在伦敦的王子绘画学院（Prince’s Drawing School）和国家肖像画廊（National Portrait Gallery）任教。2002年，他与人共同创立了伦敦绘画学院（London School of Painting and Drawing）。 安迪·潘克赫斯特谨以此书献给哈瓦德·布朗（Howard Brown）。 露辛达·郝思礼（Lucinda Hawksley） 曾出版二十多本著作，包括人物传记《莉齐·西达尔：一个拉斐尔前派超级模特的悲剧》（Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-...(展开全部)