On the map
a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
Book - 2013
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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New York :
Gotham Books,
c2013.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a On the map : |b a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / |c Simon Garfield. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Gotham Books, |c c2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 464 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Map on lining pages. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t For the love of maps: Foreword / |r by Dava Sobel -- |t Introduction: the map that wrote itself -- |t What great minds knew -- |t The men who sold the world -- |t The world takes shape -- |t Venice, China and a trip to the moon -- |t The mystery of Vinland -- |t Welcome to Amerigo -- |t What's the good of Mercator? -- |t The world in a book -- |t Mapping a cittee (without forder troble) -- |t Six increasingly coordinated tales of the ordnance survey -- |t The legendary mountains of Kong -- |t The opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan -- |t Cholera and the map that stopped it -- |t "X" marks the spot: Treasure Island -- |t The worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped -- |t Maps in all our hands: a brief history of the guidebook -- |t Casablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives -- |t How to make a very big globe -- |t The biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief -- |t Driving into lakes: how GPS put the world in a box -- |t Pass go and proceed directly to Skyrim -- |t Mapping the brain -- |t Epilogue: the instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere. |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Cartography |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Maps |v Miscellanea. | |
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