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The natures of maps : cartographic constructions of the natural world
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The natures of maps : cartographic constructions of the natural world / Denis Wood and John Fels.
ISBN
9780226906041 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226906043 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226906058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226906051 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description
xviii, 230 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 14, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-227).
Contents
Introduction: don't skip this
1. The nature of maps
2. The propositional logic of the map
3. Reading land of the living fossils
4. Threatened nature
5. Threatening nature
6. Nature as grandeur
7. Nature as cornucopia
8. Possessable nature
9. Nature as system
10. Nature as mystery
11. Nature as park.
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