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Map mania : discovering where you are and getting to where you aren't /
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| Author |
Dispezio, Michael A.
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| Call Number |
j912 DIS |
| Publisher |
New York : Sterling Pub., |
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Subject
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Map drawing.
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Map reading.
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Maps.
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Juvenile literature.
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| URL |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ste021/2001020773.html |
| Title Statement |
Map mania : discovering where you are and getting to where you aren't / Michael A. DiSpezio ; [illustrated by Dave Garbot]. |
| Description |
80 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm. |
| Contents |
Have you ever been lost? -- Halls of horror -- Making your own floor plan -- Making your own map -- Ready? Draw. -- Street smarts -- New direction -- Time for navigation tools -- Compass basics (and basic compasses) -- Orienteering compass -- Showing off -- Parking lot: lost world -- Nose knows -- Only the shadow knows -- Natural (but imperfect) compasses -- Seeing stars -- North star - When the dipper dips too low -- Getting unlost: celestial fix -- Historical side trip -- Let's get physical (and political) -- Ups and downs of topos -- Slicing up the earth -- Gorey details -- Map mania -- Where in the map? -- Mom! Dad! How much longer? -- Lost in space (transmission intermission) -- Help from above -- Tool time -- Lost! -- Bermuda triangle -- Disappearance of Flight 19 -- Lost Dutchman Mine -- When being lost is where you want to be -- Lost continent of Atlantis -- Lost treasure of Oak Island. |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| Contributors |
Garbot, Dave. |
| ISBN |
0806944072 |
| LCCN |
2001020773 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
898845 |
