Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

by Denis E. Cosgrove

Book Overview

Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences

"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it."--from the Preface

Long before we had the ability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874440
• ISBN13: 9780801874444
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher