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Author
Series
Keeper of tales trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
After being given an apprenticeship to chart her entire kingdom, young Aoife encounters a secretive culture of wealthy and peaceful people who she protects by enduring a harrowing exile.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Description
While surveying an estate in rural Tennessee, a cartographer uncovers human remains with a double-wolf sigil carved into its skull, and investigates on his own after witnessing the homeowner lying to the police about being familiar with the symbol.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2010
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Description
August 1914: Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe and Michael puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among the missing. April 1932: London psychologist and investigator Maisie...
Author
Series
Keeper of tales trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"An uncanny child born to brilliant parents, befriended by a prince, mentored by a wise woman, pursued by a powerful man, Secret Riven has no idea what destiny will demand of her or the courage she must have to confront it in the breathtakingly epic, genre-spanning sequel to The Mapmaker's War"--
Author
Series
Islam quintet volume 4
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
" Amid the chaos and misery of the Middle Ages, Sicily proved to be an island in more ways than one. Even after Christians reconquered the island, the citizens retained their Muslim culture. One ruler became a bridge between worlds, speaking Arabic fluently, maintaining a harem, and even taking on the dual titles of King Roger of Sicily and Sultan Rujari of Siqilliya. Aiding Rujari is the Muslim cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi. As the Sicilian leader...
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"What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field and Nell's personal hero. But she hasn't seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map. But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
585 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Rodrigo Silva se ve obligado a asistir al ahorcamiento {250}pblico de su padre por la ̌prdida de un gal̤en a manos de los piratas ingleses. Es una gran injusticia. Es falso. Y por ello jura vengarse. Pero el destino le tiene preparada una sorpresa. Tras formarse como car̤tgrafo en Sevilla, se convertìr en un maestro en el arte de navegar y trazar cartas ǹuticas, lo cual le llevàr a formar parte de uno de los planes ̀ms ambiciosos de Felipe...
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