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On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks Cover Image Book Book

On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / Simon Garfield.

Garfield, Simon (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781592407798
  • ISBN: 159240779X
  • ISBN: 9781592407804
  • ISBN: 1592407803
  • Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Color maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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Subject: Cartography > History
Cartography > Social aspects.
Maps > Social aspects.
Map reading
Maps > Miscellanea.

Available copies

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nyssa Public Library.

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Nyssa Public Library 912.09 GAR (Text) 36660000471754 Adult Non-Fiction Available -

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