Thomas Reinertsen Berg
Autor/a de Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 146
- Popularitat
- #141,736
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 17
- Llengües
- 8
Its written by a norwegian and has a distinct scandinavian /norwegian bias, which the author is completely upfront about. But given the size of the world it would be impossible to give a complete history of all maps so the norwegian specific stuff i simply saw as a microcosm of the world at large. Also norway was heavily involved with arctic mapping.
The illustrations were fine but didn't do much for me but there's a lot of good info in here and it did make me think a lot about how we see the world and how we use maps to try to understand our place in it.
Anyway, the early sections where the driest and took the most effort to get through but overall it was better than i expected from a book about the history of maps :P .
I got this book as a present, still not sure if it was a joke or not ;) .… (més)