The Resource The map makers
The map makers
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The item The map makers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The map makers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The Map Makers is a three-part television documentary series presenting key moments in the history of map-making. Maps are a riveting way to trace our understanding of our world -- and they should present a rich mix of scholarly research and outright adventure as mankind sought to delineate his surroundings. There are three episodes, the first is: The Waldseemuller Map 1507, which traces through map history the discovery and the naming of America, and why Vespucci Amerigo got the naming honours to the Now World, rather than Christopher Columbus. Next up is The Mercator Atlas, which focuses on a rare volume prepared by Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator in the 16th Century, which was prepared from information supplied by a network of French spies in the English court, and which could have been used to pave the way for an invasion of Britain. Finally, we rush into the 20th Century with The D-Day Invasion Maps, which looks at how Underground intelligence sources within the French Resistance, and British agents, gathered together at huge personal risk the vital intelligence needed to make the invasion of Normandy -- and the end of Nazi rule of Europe -- possible
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (150 min.)
- Note
- "A Wild Dream Films production for S4C International in association with the History Channel, ZDF Enterprises and SBS-TV Australia"
- Contents
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- Episode 1. The Walkseemuller map 1507
- Episode 2. The Mercator atlas
- Episode 3. The D-Day invasion maps
- Label
- The map makers
- Title
- The map makers
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The Map Makers is a three-part television documentary series presenting key moments in the history of map-making. Maps are a riveting way to trace our understanding of our world -- and they should present a rich mix of scholarly research and outright adventure as mankind sought to delineate his surroundings. There are three episodes, the first is: The Waldseemuller Map 1507, which traces through map history the discovery and the naming of America, and why Vespucci Amerigo got the naming honours to the Now World, rather than Christopher Columbus. Next up is The Mercator Atlas, which focuses on a rare volume prepared by Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator in the 16th Century, which was prepared from information supplied by a network of French spies in the English court, and which could have been used to pave the way for an invasion of Britain. Finally, we rush into the 20th Century with The D-Day Invasion Maps, which looks at how Underground intelligence sources within the French Resistance, and British agents, gathered together at huge personal risk the vital intelligence needed to make the invasion of Normandy -- and the end of Nazi rule of Europe -- possible
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Produced and directed by Ali McGrath and Stuart Clarke
- Intended audience
- Censorship classification : G
- PerformerNote
- Narrator: Stephen Rashbrook
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Clarke, Stuart
- Rashbrook, Stephen
- McGrath, Ali
- Runtime
- 150
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mercator, Gerhard
- Cartography
- World War, 1939-1945
- Cartography
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The map makers
- Note
- "A Wild Dream Films production for S4C International in association with the History Channel, ZDF Enterprises and SBS-TV Australia"
- Contents
- Episode 1. The Walkseemuller map 1507 -- Episode 2. The Mercator atlas -- Episode 3. The D-Day invasion maps
- Control code
- 000052214651
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (150 min.)
- Other physical details
- sound, colour
- Publisher number
- R-111903-9
- System details
- DVD, region encoded 4, PAL format
- Label
- The map makers
- Note
- "A Wild Dream Films production for S4C International in association with the History Channel, ZDF Enterprises and SBS-TV Australia"
- Contents
- Episode 1. The Walkseemuller map 1507 -- Episode 2. The Mercator atlas -- Episode 3. The D-Day invasion maps
- Control code
- 000052214651
- Dimensions
- 12 cm.
- Extent
- 1 DVD-video (150 min.)
- Other physical details
- sound, colour
- Publisher number
- R-111903-9
- System details
- DVD, region encoded 4, PAL format
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