Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change by Monmonier, Mark - 2008

University of Chicago Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Former library Hardcover in Very Good condition. Aside from a few typical library markings, pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Binding tight with DJ in clear mylar sleeve. Book shows little evidence of use.

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiii, 228pp, Index, Bibliography, Notes, maps, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Rising water levels present unprecedented challenges to all coastal existence as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coaasts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, maps, minimal edgewear jacket. 228 pp. Rising sea levels pose major challenges to all aspects of coastal existence - economic, residential, and environmental - but also to cartography (mapping of coasts). Monmonier explores shifting landscapes, cartographic technology and climate change, and reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. 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. 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.

Hardback. Very Good.