Download or read book Lost City Maps written by Luis Felipe Mujica and published by Luis Felipe Mujica. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a literary expedition with "Lost City Maps" a collection of 25 creative stories that breathe life into the black and white coordinates of a cartographer's canvas. This book is a celebration of the unknown, a tribute to the uncharted territories that maps merely hint at but never fully reveal. Each story is a voyage, a discovery of a hidden gem that lies beyond the familiar. From the misty peaks of unnamed mountains to the depths of undiscovered seas, these tales traverse the globe, uncovering the secrets and wonders of places that have eluded the world's gaze. The narratives are woven with the threads of adventure, mystery, and the human spirit, capturing the essence of exploration and the thrill of finding oneself in the midst of the vast unknown. "Lost City Maps" is more than a book; it's a portal to the world's hidden corners, where every page turn is a step into a different realm. It's an invitation to imagine and give color to the monochrome precision of maps, to fill the voids with vibrant stories that resonate with the soul of the wanderer. This collection is a must-have for those who seek the extraordinary, who yearn to explore the spaces between the lines, and who find joy in the stories that lie waiting in the silence of the unexplored. Let "Cartography Chronicles" guide you through the whispers of the world, and discover the magic that lies in giving life to a piece of black and white set of coordinates.
Download or read book Lost Maps of the Caliphs written by Yossef Rapoport and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.
Download or read book The Expeditioners and the Lost City of Maps written by S. S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world in which the computers have crashed and it's discovered that the maps of the world are all wrong, the children of a famous explorer must follow a series of maps left their father.
Download or read book The Lost City Maps 50 Maps for Reduce Your Stress written by Luis Mujica and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 Maps for coloring and reduce your anxiety
Download or read book Atlas of Lost Cities written by Aude de Tocqueville and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a "highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike" (GoNomad). Cities are mortal, but the traces they leave behind tell a fascinating story. In Atlas of Lost Cities, an accomplished travel writer reveals the rise and fall of notable places, each pithy portrait illuminated by a vintage map that puts armchair explorers right in the scene. Wander with care through: Ancient and legendary places like Pompeii, Teotihuacá and Angkor Contemporary wonders like Centralia, a nearly abandoned Pennsylvania town consumed by unquenchable underground fire Eerie planned communities like Nova Citas de Kilamba in Angola, where housing, schools, and stores were built for 500,000 people who never came Epecuen, a tourist town in Argentina that was swallowed by water With each map are fantastical illustrations that help the reader envision these hubs as they were in their prime. A perfect gift for the traveler who believes he or she has seen it all.
Download or read book The Map written by Dave Burdett and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eccentric billionaire philanthropist Colton Braxton III is diagnosed with leukemia, he concocts a wild scheme. Always the black sheep of his family, he plans a treasure quest—his chance to be known for what he truly is—a passionate adventurer with a spirit that defies his social status. His bizarre will consists of the ultimate scavenger hunt, one that challenges even the most hardcore adventurer. A copy of the map to the mystery fortune ends up in the hands of adventurer Logan Nash, a budding treasure hunter who has forsaken that life after a near-death encounter with the unscrupulous treasure hunter Dr. Victor Kane. Nash is drawn back into that life by the hope of not only untold riches, but the promise of the ultimate adventure. Nash’s pursuit of Braxton’s treasure takes him from the depths of the sea to exotic lands spanning all four corners of the Earth where he faces romance, danger, and betrayal—and the nemesis of his past, who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the treasure.
Download or read book County Reports and Maps written by West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Cities and Forgotten Civilizations written by Michael Pye and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology, the mysteries of the pyramids, ancient nuclear weapons, Atlantis, and the role of our government through history all come together in this book.
Download or read book 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World written by Alastair Bonnett and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World is a collection of historic and contemporary maps and the insights they reveal about geography, geopolitics, art, history, science, and society.
Download or read book Maps of Time written by David Christian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings. Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population and environmental studies—all figure in David Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of "Big History." Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe, the stars and the galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth, and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the birth of the modern, industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures. Sweeping in scope, finely focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world history—and Big History—true as never before to its name.
Download or read book The Secret of Wellington s Map written by Mollie Kehl Penrod and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaime and her best friend, Nicole are looking forward to a carefree summer in their hometown, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. All is going according to plan until they discover a strange ancient map and suddenly their relaxing vacation becomes a desperate fight for their lives. Though danger lurks around every corner, Jaime is up for the adventure, but is set to discover more about herself and her past than she may be able to handle.
Download or read book Lost Cities of China Central Asia India written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores some of the world's oldest and most remote countries in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries.
Download or read book Lost Cities of Atlantis Ancient Europe the Mediterranean written by David Hatcher Childress and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantis! The legendary lost continent comes under the close scrutiny of archaeologist David Hatcher Childress. From Ireland to Turkey, Morocco to Eastern Europe, or remote islands of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, Childress takes the reader on an astonishing quest for mankind's past. Ancient technology, cataclysms, megalithic construction, lost civilisations, and devastating wars of the past are all explored in this amazing book. Childress challenges the sceptics and proves that great civilisations not only existed in the past but that the modern world and its problems are reflections of the ancient world of Atlantis.
Download or read book The Lost City of the Monkey God written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Make Hand Drawn Maps written by Helen Cann and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend.
Download or read book Oathbound written by Darrin Drader and published by Bastion Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great City of Penance is the oldest settlement on the Forge, literally containing millions of years of history in its deep hulking mass. Though nearly forty million souls call the city home, less than half of one percent of the city's locations are inhabited. The bulk of the Pedestal is a madly stacked and sprawling ruin, only superficially explored by the relentless rafters and treasure-seekers of the surface world. Every home in the city has a hundred others lost beneath it, and every city street stands atop an incredible three-dimensional maze of corridors, alleyways, and crawlspaces - a maze where time has left nothing unchanged, eroding and distorting the framework of magic and even the laws of physics themselves.Long past the grasp of any human control, the ruins of Penance have become a true landscape, vast, beautiful, and unforgiving, with their own unique ecosystem and their own set of hazards and comforts. Strange plants and creatures have evolved in the eternally darkened streets below the city, and prey upon those foolish enough to step out of the city's gilded cage of civilization.Wrack and Ruin is an essential guidebook for anyone intoxicated by the forgotten secrets of the past, or by the potential power lost within the great city's crumbling majesty. Don't leave your Bloodhold without it!
