The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

by Chris Perkins and Rob Kitchin

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470742836
• ISBN13: 9780470742839
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.0" x 10.5"