Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

by Stephen J. Hornsby

Instructive, amusing, colorful--pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of whimsy and fact, combining cartographic elements with text and images and featuring bold and arresting designs, bright...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022638604X
• ISBN13: 9780226386041
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.2"