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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The attraction is well documented and the onswers vary from simply knowing where one is in the world to appreciating the illustrated tale a map tells. When Task people about their attraction to mops it’s often simply the detail that they love: the lines precision colors shapes and grid It’s the compass roses and sea monsters the sailing ships and cartouches. Simply put it’s the visual nature of maps that attracts many of us without regard to accuracy or usefulness. For me it’s the story of maps themselves the connection I feel to the mapmakers of the past who scratched planetary systems on cave walls or penned a path to the Fountain of Youth on an animal skin. The story of maps and mapmakers began thousands of years ago and that art/ science/compulsion has continued to this day Since the beginning the materials of mapmaking have changed with demand and the availability of resources. They have been drawn and painted on walls skins papyrus and handmade paper of all kinds. Maps have been carved in wood and on stone tablets. inscribed in clay and finally produced on manufactured paper with a printing press. The printed map is what many of us have come to know as the map standard That is about to change: electronic maps will be the standard for upcoming generations. Many of us obsessed with maps are not ready for this change. My love for maps-the folded paper find-your-way kind of maps- goes back to childhood I was the map helder on family trips. I wanted to know where I was ot every point along the way The first map I kept was one my first boyfriend gave me. (LL)