"A collection of over two hundred maps, including pages from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" and the human genome map, which provides information on the history of cartography as well as background information about the cultural, social, and economic conditions of the time in which the maps were drawn."
"A collection of over two hundred maps, including pages from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" and the human genome map, which provides information on the history of cartography as well as background information about the cultural, social, and economic conditions of the time in which the maps were drawn."@en
"Among the maps included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation "America"; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and a map of the Human Genome.--From publisher's description."