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Early Mapping of Southeast Asia.

Early Mapping of Southeast Asia. Hardcover - 1999

by SUAREZ, THOMAS

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Hong Kong.: Periplus. 1999.. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white reproductions of maps, pictorial endpapers, 280pp, endnotes, references, index. Spine a little faded with little chip to tail of spine. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. 31.2 x 23.5cm. Early Mapping of Southeast Asia follows the story of mapmaking, exploration, and colonization from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. It surveys Southeast Asia’s geography and civilizations, its maps and influence on Western worldviews, and the image of Southeast Asia in the eyes of its neighbors. It also examines the Western image of Southeast Asia from classical times onward. .
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  • Title Early Mapping of Southeast Asia.
  • Author SUAREZ, THOMAS
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Periplus, Hong Kong.
  • Date 1999.
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 214971
  • ISBN 9789625934709 / 9625934707
  • Weight 4.01 lbs (1.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 12 x 9 x 1.03 in (30.48 x 22.86 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00553137
  • Dewey Decimal Code 911.59

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The vast world of islands, peninsulas, rivers, and mountains which is Southeast Asia was begot from the powerful union of the earth's Indian and Pacific Ocean plates.

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Thomas Suarez, a resident of Hawthorne, New York, has been well known in the field of early maps for may years. He has helped create some of the finest collections of maps, both private and institutional, and served as curator for exhibits at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C., the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery.

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