On the map
Subtitle: a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks
By: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781592407798; 9781592407804
Subjects: Maps; Cartography; Map reading; Social aspects; Miscellanea; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Col. maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: For the love of maps : foreword  -- by Dava Sobel; title: Introduction : the map that wrote itself --; title: What great minds knew --; title: The men who sold the world --; title: The world takes shape --; title: Venice, China and a trip to the moon --; title: The mystery of Vinland --; title: Welcome to Amerigo --; title: What's the good of Mercator? --; title: The world in a book --; title: Mapping a cittee (without forder troble) --; title: Six increasingly coordinated tales of the Ordnance Survey --; title: The legendary mountains of Kong --; title: The opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan --; title: Cholera and the map that stopped it --; title: "X" marks the spot : Treasure island --; title: The worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped --; title: Maps in all our hands : a brief history of the guidebook --; title: Casablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives --; title: How to make a very big globe --; title: The biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief --; title: Driving into lakes : how GPS put the world in a box --; title: Pass go and proceed directly to Skyrim --; title: Mapping the brain --; title: Epilogue : the instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere.