{"id":182,"date":"2013-10-11T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-10-11T23:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T23:13:46","slug":"atlas-of-the-week-5-october-7-13-the-times-atlas-of-world-exploration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2013\/10\/11\/atlas-of-the-week-5-october-7-13-the-times-atlas-of-world-exploration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of the Week 5 (October 7 &#8211; 13): The Times Atlas of World Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2013\/10\/atlas-world-exploration1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-184\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2013\/10\/atlas-world-exploration1-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2013\/10\/atlas-world-exploration1-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/files\/2013\/10\/atlas-world-exploration1.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Times Atlas of World Exploration<\/em> transports the reader back to the world\u2019s first civilizations and through a narrative of progress educates the reader on how the world we see today has formed since the beginning of time. A majority of the maps demonstrate this narrative and evolution of the world with color-coded arrows signifying distinctive trade and migration routes from 3,000 years ago up until thirty years ago. The author, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto does an excellent job in showing the development of the modern world in an organized and comprehensible fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe.\u00a0<em>The Times Atlas of World Exploration.\u00a0<\/em>New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 1991. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Atlas of World Exploration transports the reader back to the world\u2019s first civilizations and through a narrative of progress educates the reader on how the world we see today has formed since the beginning of time. A majority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2013\/10\/11\/atlas-of-the-week-5-october-7-13-the-times-atlas-of-world-exploration-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}