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The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories
The Road to There Mapmakers and Their Stories
Author: Val Ross
Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children?s non-fiction — Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International?s Best Book Award ? Social Studies, Grades 7-12 — Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year — 2003 winner of the Mr. Christie?s Book Award Seal — — Shortlist...  more »

Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children?s Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association?s Children?s Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category



Road maps; sailor?s charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like colors; computer printouts ? to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.

Here are some of the unexpected stories of history?s great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London?s streets, princes, doctors, and warriors. These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the stars.

With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating and suspenseful as a novel.

From the Hardcover edition.
ISBN-13: 9780887769337
ISBN-10: 0887769330
Publication Date: 9/8/2009
Pages: 152
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Tundra Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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