The Mapping of Africa

The Mapping of Africa
Author: Richard L. Betz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Mapping of Africa systematically categorizes and provides an overview of all printed maps showing the entire African continent published from 1508 to 1700. Volume 7 in the Utrechtse Historisch-Cartografische Studies.

Map Skills - Africa (ENHANCED eBook)

Map Skills - Africa (ENHANCED eBook)
Author: R. Scott House
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429115793

Explore the varied features of the African continent while reinforcing basic map reading skills. Sixteen student pages and accompanying blackline and full-color maps coordinate to provide a relational study of the elevation, vegetation, products, population, and peoples of Africa. Full-color maps are provided as transparencies for print books and PowerPoint slides for eBooks. Student pages challenge students to combine maps and additional resources in order to answer questions and make judgments. Question topics follow the Five Themes of Geography as outlined by the National Geographic Society: finding absolute and relative locations on a map, relating physical and human characteristics to an area, understanding human relationships to the environment, tracing movement of peoples and goods throughout an area, and organizing countries and continents into regions for detailed study.

Africa Is Not a Country

Africa Is Not a Country
Author: Margy Burns Knight
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761316477

Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.

A Short History of the Cartography of Africa

A Short History of the Cartography of Africa
Author: Jeffrey C. Stone
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Drawing on the recent work of historians of Africa, this volume questions the contemporary wisdom about maps of Africa. This book suggests that the history of African cartography has been misinterpreted.

Mapping Africa

Mapping Africa
Author: Barbara M. Linde
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 143399092X

As the second-largest continent, Africa offers thousands of miles of tropical rainforest, desert, and highlands to explore. It’s a font of natural resources and home to 1 billion people! Readers will trek through the many climate zones and cities found in Africa as they are introduced to the continent. Fascinating geographical content complementary to the social studies curriculum will draw readers in while they learn about different kinds of maps through colorful examples. Detailed photographs will further engage readers as fun fact boxes help guide them halfway around the world.

Mapping South Africa

Mapping South Africa
Author: Andrew Duminy
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN: 9781431402212

Provides the first survey of the fascinating story of maps and mapmaking in the subcontinent. Beginning with the Portuguese voyages of exploration in the late 15th century, the book proceeds to discuss the attempts of the Dutch and then of the British to chart and lay claim to the vast and expanding landscape of the Cape Colony.

Africa Reference Map (Political)

Africa Reference Map (Political)
Author: Octopus Publishing Group
Publisher: Philip's
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780540086061

New for 2004, this brightly coloured wall chart shows the whole of Africa in political coloration, with clear lettering and symbols for easy reference. Countries are picked out in distinctive colours to aid identification, with town and city names clearly shown. Accompanying the main map is a separate smaller-scale inset map showing the continent in physical colours, together with colourful thematic maps showing the official languages across Africa, as well as the countries making up the Arab League and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Philip's Africa Reference Map (Political) is supplied in two versions: (a) laminated on both sides and rolled into a clear plastic tube for use as a wall map; and (b) unlaminated and folded with a tipped-on card cover for use when travelling