Cartographies of travel and navigation  [electronic resource] / 
edited by James R. Akerman. 
 -  University of Chicago Press,  2006. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 372 p., [7] p. of plates) :  ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 
 - The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography .
 - Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / James R. Akerman -- Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith -- Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook -- Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail travel cartography / Jerry Musich -- Twentieth-century American road maps and the making of a national motorized space / James R. Akerman -- "Up in the air in more ways than one" : the emergence of aeronautical charts in the United States / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- Maps on wheels : the evolution of automobile navigation / Robert L. French. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226010786 (electronic bk.) 0226010783 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Maps.<br/>Navigation.<br/>Map reading.<br/>Navigation--United States.<br/>Map reading--United States.<br/>Engineering.<br/>Cartes géographiques.<br/>Navigation.<br/>Lecture de cartes.<br/>Navigation--États-Unis.<br/>Lecture de cartes--États-Unis.<br/>TRANSPORTATION--Navigation.<br/>Kaarten (geografie)<br/>Kaartlezen.<br/>Reizen.<br/>Kartographie.<br/>Reisekarte.<br/>Navigation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Verenigde Staten.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GA108  / .C35 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>629.04/5