An atlas of geographical wonders from mountaintops to riverbeds : a selection of comparative maps and tableaux
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Bibliographic Information
An atlas of geographical wonders from mountaintops to riverbeds : a selection of comparative maps and tableaux
Princeton Architectural Press, c2019
1st ed
- Other Title
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Le monde sur une feuille
An atlas of geographical wonders
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Other authors: Jean-Marc Besse, Philippe Grand, Gilles Palsky
"First published by Fage éditions as Le monde sur une feuille, Lyon, September, 2014"--T.p. verso
"Translation of the French edition by Michelle Bailat-Jones"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
Additional references (web address): p. 208
Includes index
Contents of Works
- The great measuring of the world / Jean-Christophe Bailly
- Portraits of groups : nineteenth-century tableaux of mountains and rivers / Gilles Palsky and Jean-Marc Besse
- Speak to the mind and the imagination : Humboldt's tableau
- The world's highest mountains
- The world's longest rivers
- Mountains and rivers in contrast
- Thirst for comparison : islands, lakes, waterfalls, and monuments
- Comparing scales
- The horizontal and the vertical