Maps: Getting from Here to There - Softcover

Weiss, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395720281 ISBN 13: 9780395720288

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1995

Synopsis

This book describes the many different kinds of maps and explains the methods that mapmakers use to convey information, including clear and simple explanations of scale, latitude, longitude, and altitude. It also shows you how to make your own map.

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Grade 4-8-- In an informal, animated style, Weiss introduces the purpose, varieties, history, and mechanics of maps and map making. Every page offers helpful illustrations, which consist of modern and historical reproductions and single-color diagrams, charts, and cartoons. Map-reading essentials of compass direction, scale, latitude and longitude, altitude, and symbols are explained. The special purpose and appearance of topographic maps, marine charts, and different projections are also discussed. In the final chapter, readers are invited to make maps of their neighborhoods, using a simple list of tools and following step-by-step instructions that reinforce the cartographic methodology described throughout the book. This an enthusiastic, accessible, and motivating presentation that fills a gap for middle-grade readers whose informational needs fall between Ray Broekel's Maps and Globes (Childrens, 1983) and Helen Carey's more detailed, well-referenced How to Use Maps and Globes (Watts, 1983; o.p.). --Gerry Larson, Chewning Junior High School, Durham, NC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0395720281
• ISBN 13: 9780395720288
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64