The natures of maps : cartographic constructions of the natural world / Denis Wood and John Fels

Author:: Wood, Denis
Published:: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description:: xviii, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Additional Creators:: Fels, John

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Contents:

The nature of maps -- The propositional logic of the map -- Reading land of living fossils -- Threatened nature -- Threatening nature -- Nature as grandeur -- Nature as cornucopia -- Possessable nature -- Nature as system -- Nature as mystery -- Nature as park.

Subject(s):

Map reading
Cartography—Philosophy
Cartography—Social aspects

ISBN:

9780226906041 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226906043 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226906058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226906051 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-227).

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