Book Your Summer Shop NowBook Your Summer Shop Now
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list

The Queen's Atlas: Saxton's Elizabethan Masterpiece

By David Fletcher
Hardcover
$55.00
By David Fletcher

Promotion message icon

Collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5. Learn More

Formats
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
A cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps of England and Wales.

Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in Tudor England, maps were rare. All this changed in 1579 when Christopher Saxton, a farmer from the West Riding of Yorkshire, became the first cartographer to make a published atlas of all the counties of England and Wales. This book traces the story of Saxton’s life and legacy by reconstructing...

Categories

Social SciencesScience & TechnologySocial Sciences - General & MiscellaneousEarth ScienceLandscape & Environment - Social AspectsGeographyHuman Geography - Historical GeographyCultural & Historical Geography