The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
The Mapmakers cover

The Mapmakers

John Noble Wilford

0

awards won

4

score

#2552 of 3,809 books · #845 in History

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1983).

In his classic text, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner John Noble Wilford recounts the history of cartography from antiquity to the space age. They are among the world's great pioneers and adventurers: the mapmakers who for centuries have been expanding our knowledge of who and where we are, and where we want to go. From the surprisingly accurate silk maps prepared by Chinese cartographers in the second century B.C., to medieval mapmakers who believed they had fixed the location of paradise, through to the expeditions of Columbus and Magellan, John Noble Wilford chronicles the exploits of the great pioneers of mapmaking. Wilford brings the story up to the present day as he shows the impact of new technologies that make it possible for cartographers to go where no one has been before, from the deepest reaches of the universe (where astronomers are mapping time as well as space) to the inside of the human brain. These modern-day mapmakers join the many earlier adventurers—including ancient Greek stargazers, Renaissance seafarers, and the explorers who mapped the American West—whose achievements shape this dramatic story of human inventiveness and limitless curiosity.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780375708503
Genre
History
Topics
History of cartographyExploration and discoveryScience and technology history

Awards

Other awarded books from John Noble Wilford

John Noble Wilford has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.

If you liked The Mapmakers, you could also like these