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Winner of the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian children's non-fiction
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International's Best Book Award – Social Studies, Grades 7-12
Shortlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book of the Year
2003 winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award Seal
Shortlisted for the 2004 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-fiction
Included on VOYA's ninth annual Nonfiction Honor List
Selected for inclusion in CCBC Choices 2004: the best-of-the-year list published by the Cooperative Children's Book center of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Named Notable Book by the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award in the intermediate nonfiction category
Road maps; sailor's charts; quilts; songlines; gilded parchment covered with jewel-like 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 history's 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 specially-pieced quilts, the woman who mapped London's 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 stars.
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.
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Eddie Bellemin
reviewed The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories on March 25, 2011
The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories
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.
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