Maps That Changed the World, Hardcover

From beautifully engraved sixteenth-century Dutch maps to sinister Nazi maps, this stunning compendium features some of the most famous cartography ever created. Stretching back to when explorers feared dropping off the -edge of the world, - these 65 examples include Lewis and Clark's charting of the American West, the British mapping of India and Australia, and maps that divided up continents among conquerors, marked a country's geology, or laid out military campaigns. There are even some -fantasy maps, - including one from Lord of the Rings Organized chronologically, the collection shows the evolution of map-making from all corners of the globe.