Where Is Here : Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell

By Alan Morantz

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143013513
• ISBN13: 9780143013518
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Canada
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.9" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book about cartography

You don't have to be Canadian to enjoy and appreciate this book. If you are interested in cartography, if you can feel the magic of maps you will be fascinated by what Alan Morantz has to say. True the examples he shares relate to Canada's history and geography, but his knowledge of how maps have been, and are, used has a breadth and depth that will take your breath away. A glance down the Table of Contents gives just a clue - Survival, Misdirection, Exploitation and Seduction are just a few of the chapter titles. And the writer delivers the goods in each chapter.If you are interested in the world of maps, whether they offer fact of fiction, you will both enjoy and learn from this book.