Date 22 October 2020
Pages 204
Format cm 24 x 30
Price € 38.00
EAN 9782749163956
Publisher Website www.cherche-midi.com

Pathfinders

Publisher Le Cherche Midi
Eighteen portraits of geographers and over 150 maps and illustrations for learning about the history of geography from Homer to the present day.

It took thirty centuries to describe and depict the world.
Laurent Maréchaux retraces this lengthy odyssey from Homer to Vidal de la Blache by way of Herodotus, Mercator, and Humboldt,
providing portraits of genius geographers who contributed-as poets, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, astronomers, and geologists-to the gradual mapping of the world. Cartography is an inexhaustible source of wonder, and no book better demonstrates that than this brilliant work, sumptuously written, illustrated, and researched.

  • Sales in France 6,000 copies
  • As of: June 2021