On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
Garfield, Simon2013
Book
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.
Main title:
On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / Simon Garfield.
Author:
Imprint:
New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, c2013.
Collation:
464 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Col. maps on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781592407798159240779X
Dewey class:
912.09
LC class:
GA203GA201
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
162479
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| City Library | -Travel | TRAVEL 912.09 GARF | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Travel | TRAVEL 912.09 GARF | Available |