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Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s never been told before.
Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose—it invites us to go somewhere...
Longlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Shortlisted for the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called “Canada” like it’s never been told before.
Every map tells a story. And every map has a purpose—it invites us to go somewhere...
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Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated-and timely-history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist.
"Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close."
Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the first...
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Jennings takes listeners on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture. He also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.
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Sigma Force novels volume 15
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"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer's twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles--The Iliad and The Odyssey--could also be true and awaiting discovery? In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day climatologists and archaeologists...
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Ghastly McNastys volume 1
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When the Ghastly McNastys find a treasure map in the sleepy village of Little Snoring, the pirate twins go on the hunt. But two clever local kids, Tat and Hetty, are also searching for the lost treasure, and they won't let a couple of pirates get in their way.
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"The world is not always what we think it is. This book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands. Numerous conflicts have left countries divided and often shattered. Remnants of countries can by design or accident be left behind as a legal anomaly in this complex world. Most people believe that a country’s borders are clearly defined: just lines that separate countries. Everything on one side of...
15) Treasure map
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Adventure friends (Scholastic Acorn) volume 1
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Clarke is a girl who has just moved in and she is very serious about adventure; Miguel knows the neighborhood and is eager to meet new people and have adventures--so with walkie-talkies, a compass, paper, and colored pencils they set out to explore and draw an "adventure map"--or perhaps it is a treasure map as Miguel insists.
17) Map types
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Discusses what maps are, presents various types of maps - e.g. road maps, globes, topographical maps, weather maps, political maps - and examines how different maps are created and used.
18) Map parts
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Introduces the reader to the essential parts of maps through carefully selected examples.
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