On the map
why the world looks the way it does
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Word Count
116,000 words, Guess
Page Count
464 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveonmapwhyworldloo0000garf
- Internet Archiveonmapwhyworldloo0000garf_f7o7
- ISBN-101846685095
- ISBN-101847658555
- ISBN-139781846685095
and 6 more
- ISBN-139781847658555
- Library of Congress Control Number2013375932
- OCLC Control Number819941645
- Better World Books9781847658555
- Better World Books9781846685095
- Open LibraryOL27878079M
Classifications
- DDC912
- LCCGA201 .G375 2012
- LCCGA201 .G37 2012
and 2 more
- LCCGA201 .G37 2013
- LCCGA151
Alternate Titles
- Why the world looks the way it does
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.
Description
From Mappa Mundi to Myst - the bestselling "Just My Type" author turns his gaze to maps. Maps have the most amazing stories - and Simon Garfield is the perfect author to tell them. This is a book that will inspire mapophiles but engage even those of us who stare blankly at an OS pathfinder's hieroglyphs. Just as Garfield found the magic in fonts, here he creates compelling narratives on everything from the challenge of mapping the oceans tospellbinding treasure maps to the naming of America, from Churchill's crucial war maps to the lay-out of a Monopoly board, from crime maps to music maps, from rare map dealers to cartographic frauds. En route, there are 'map-break' tales on Michelin and railway maps, how to fold a map maps of places that never existed, a London A-Z from 1677 and the weirdness of videogame mapping. "On The Map" will explain where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
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