The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History
Seed, a professor at UC Irvine, has written an attractive, compact history of maps. Spanning more than 45,000 years—from Stone Age cave maps of the stars to Google Maps in 2013—100 maps are each described on a two-page spread. The variety and types of cartography are amazing—a polder map of Delfland in 1750, a map on a powder horn showing a route from Albany to Canada in 1757, and the landing chart for a runway at Heathrow Airport in 2006. A QR code on each page produces a Google Maps overlay for the present location. Recommended for all types of libraries where there is an interest in cartography. --Christine Bulson