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On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
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- Summary
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Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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- Creator
- Simon Garfield
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 464 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 159240779X, 9781592407798, 1624905870, 9781592407804, 1592407803, 9781624905872
- OCLC
- ocn795167619, ocn862149696
- Col. maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448) and index.
- For the love of maps : foreword / by Dava Sobel -- Introduction : The map that wrote itself -- What great minds knew -- The men who sold the world -- The world takes shape -- Venice, China and a trip to the moon -- The mystery of Vinland -- Welcome to Amerigo -- What's the good of Mercator? -- The world in a book -- Mapping a cittee (without forder troble) -- Six increasingly coordinated tales of the Ordnance Survey -- The legendary mountains of Kong -- The opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan -- Cholera and the map that stopped it -- "X" marks the spot : Treasure island -- The worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped -- Maps in all our hands : a brief history of the guidebook -- Casablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives -- How to make a very big globe -- The biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief -- Driving into lakes : how GPS put the world in a box -- Pass go and proceed directly to Skyrim -- Mapping the brain -- Epilogue : The instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere