Tells the history of maps and mapmaking with activities, including drawing a treasure map, creating a nautical map, and navigating a course using a compass.

A history of mapmaking showing how maps both reflect and change people's view of the world.

"Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller -- authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map" -- Explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on...

Although Cortes conquered the Aztec empire in 1521, imperial Spain knew little about the Mexican territory under its control when Philip II acceded to the throne in 1556. As part of a vast project to learn about its territories in the New World, Spain commissioned a survey - the Relaciones Geograficas - of Spanish officials in Mexico between 1578 and 1584, asking for local maps as well as descriptions of local resources, history, and geography. Offering...

A chronicle of the early sixteenth-century creation of the Waldseemüller map offers insight into how monks, classicists, merchants, and other contributors from earlier periods shaped the map's creation.