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 Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction Included on VOYA 's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the ...
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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 Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction Included on VOYA 's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List 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.
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Good in good dust jacket. 2003. A good condition used hardcover ex-library book with usual library markings, clean text pages, and moderate cover wear. The dust jacket is covered in mylar. Booksavers receives donated books and recycles them in a variety of ways. Proceeds benefit the work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in the U.S. and around the world.
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