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An Atlas of Geographical Wonders: From Mountaintops to Riverbeds
By Bailly, Jean-Christophe & others
- ISBN
- 9781616898236
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural
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Starred Review on February 1, 2020 | Reference
As much a work of art as a history of cartography and exploration, this superb volume by Bailly (Sch. of Landscape Architecture, Blois, France), Gilles Palsky (geography, Univ. of Paris), Jean-Marc Besse (director of research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique), and poet Philippe Grand documents the 19th-century fervor for comparative maps and tableaux—illustrations showing, for example, the highest mountains in the world juxtaposed against one ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
