Off the Map
Subtitle: The Curious Histories of Place-Names
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781568362984
Subjects: World - General; Reference - General; History: World; History; Travel - General; Curiosities & Wonders; Reference; Geographic names; Names, Geographical
First sentence: Cartography is 20 percent geography and science and 80 percent ignorance, myth, and greed-the arbitrary, impulsive, and ironic, snarled in history and politics.