Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library

by Tom Harper

From the publication in 1595 of the first "atlas" by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called "accurate" in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey. Yet this atlas can help us to travel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712353321
• ISBN13: 9780712353328
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.9"