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Mark Monmonier

Coast Lines

How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

224 pages, 85 halftones  6 x 9  © 2008

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226534039   Published May 2008

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                        Preface and Acknowledgments            
      
            1          Depiction and Measurement
            2          Definitions and Delineations
            3          New Worlds and Fictitious Islands
            4          Triangles and Topography
            5          Overhead Imaging
            6          Electronic Charts and Precise Positioning
            7          Global Shorelines
            8          Baselines and Offshore Borders
            9          Calibrating Catastrophe
            10        Rising Seas, Eroding Surge
            11        Close-ups and Complexity
            12        Epilogue

                        Notes
                        Bibliography
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