Secure The Road To There: Mapmakers And Their Stories Executed By Val Ross Displayed In Mobi

middle grade history that's not boring, I enjoyed it. so far it's ok. it doesn't have me excited to read it, but I can read it, like I said its ok, Loved this. Interesting stories of the explorers, A little bit of map/life philosophy to wrap up each chapter, Sidebars to explain technology amp sideways bits of relevance, Mapping earth, sea, air, space in varied spots in history, My only complaint was that the illustrations couldn't be bigger, So many fascinating stories about the history of cartography! Really well done, I like middle grade and YA history, because the focus is often tight, This one in particular covers just a few mapmakers, and how they made the maps that made them famous, The stories are really very interesting, I think my favorite was about the man who posed as a Buddhist pilgrim and used his modified rosary beads as surveying equipment, Unfortunately, one throwaway comment left me concerned about the veracity of the book as a whole, Ross mentioned an ancient Chinese ship that had watertight compartments as insurance against sinking, then added that the Titanic would have been better off to have the same.
But anybody who watched at least the first half hour of Titanic that is, everybody in the English speaking world over the age of ten knows that the Titanic did have watertight compartments.
It doesn't discount the book as a whole, of course, but it's such a simple error that it does cause concern, I love this book!!!! It taught me a lot about how our world was mapped!!!!stars!!!!!!! Winner of theNorma Fleck Award for Canadian childrens nonfiction

Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians Internationals Best Book Award Social Studies, Grades

Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year

winner of the Mr.
Christies Book Award Seal

Shortlisted for theNorma Fleck Award for Canadian Childrens Nonfiction

Included on VOYAs ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List

Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices: the bestoftheyear list published by the Cooperative Childrens Book center of the School of Education at the University of WisconsinMadison

Named Notable Book by the International Reading Associations Childrens Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category


Road maps sailors charts quilts songlines gilded parchment covered with jewellike colors computer printouts to guide us through the strange, vast, beautiful, and mysterious frontiers of the world of maps, Val Ross presents the men and women who made them.


Here are some of the unexpected stories of historys great mapmakers: the fraud artists who deliberately distorted maps for political gain, Captain Cook, the slaves on the run who found their way thanks to speciallypieced quilts, the woman who mapped Londons streets, princes, doctors, and warriors.
These are the people who helped us chart our way in the world, under the sea, and on to the,

With reproductions of some of the most important maps in history, this extraordinary book, packed with information, is as fascinating

and suspenseful as a novel, .