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Coastlines: how mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change

by Monmonier, Mark

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Never read, Index, A fun read. Text unmarked. Spine tight.

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In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence—chiefly economic, residential, and environmental—as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, Monmonier reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps.Whether for sailing charts or property maps, Monmonier shows, coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Coast Lines is peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline’s length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access.Combing maritime history and the history of technology, Coast Lines charts the historical progression from offshore sketches to satellite images and explores the societal impact of coastal cartography on everything from global warming to homeland security. Returning to the form of his celebrated Air Apparent, Monmonier ably renders the topic of coastal cartography accessible to both general readers and historians of science, technology, and maritime studies. In the post-Katrina era, when the map of entire regions can be redrawn by a single natural event, the issues he raises are more important than ever.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Coastlines
Author
Monmonier, Mark
Format/Binding
Blue green cloth withlight green spine binding
Book Condition
New As New
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as new
Quantity Available
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Edition
first
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0226534030
ISBN 13
9780226534039
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication
Chicago Il
Date Published
2009
Pages
228
Size
6" x 9"
Keywords
atlas maps charts monmomier chicago coastlines mapmakers environmental change land water boundary cartography coastal images
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