Garfield, Simon.
New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, c2013.
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Notes:
- Col. maps on lining papers.
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Cartography — History.
- Cartography — Social aspects.
- Maps — Social aspects.
- Map reading.
- Maps — Miscellanea.
Requested by Kidd, M