| Authors: |
Garfield, Simon.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Cartography -- History.
Maps -- Miscellanea.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Gotham Books, c2013. |
| Description: |
464 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781592407798 159240779X |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index. |
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Map on lining pages. |
| 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. |
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| Summary: |
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. |