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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.82 avg rating — 14,136 ratings
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The Singing Line
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3.71 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
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3.91 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 509 ratings
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Drawing the Line : How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America
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3.94 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters
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Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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4.05 avg rating — 10,513 ratings
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable – An Epic 19th-Century Achievement that United America and Europe
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3.97 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 76,415 ratings
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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
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3.93 avg rating — 573 ratings
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A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice
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3.33 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe
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3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
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3.60 avg rating — 306 ratings
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The Mapmakers
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3.86 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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3.60 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination
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3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History
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3.62 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Everest: The Man and the Mountain
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A History of Spaces
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3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Rocks to riches: The story of Australia's national geological survey
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Ordnance Survey: Map makers to Britain since 1791
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The Practical Surveyor: Or the Art of Land-Meafuring, Made Easy
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mr. Surveyor Thomson: Early Days in Otago and Southland
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The surveyors,: The story of the founding of Darwin
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Benjamin Banneker
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3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Tadataka Ino: The Japanese Land-Surveyor
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The Civilized Surveyor: Thomas Mitchell & Australian Aboriginals
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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W. Whitfield Mills: Experiences with Darwin survey & overland telegraph parties and discovery of Alice Spring : from SA to WA by camel
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King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817–1822
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and <i>H. M. S. Beagle</i> in Australia 1837-1843
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Beaufort of the Admiralty: The Life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Gale Force 10: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Colonel William Light Founder of a City
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
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3.68 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The Quest for Longitude
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the horizons of Space and Time
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3.92 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Measuring the Universe: Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Great Race
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3.85 avg rating — 165 ratings
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