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On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / Simon Garfield ; [foreword by Dava Sobel]. |
| Authors: | Garfield, Simon. |
| Call number: | 912.09 GAR |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, c2013. |
| Publication date: | c2013. |
| Subject: |
Cartography -- History.
Cartography -- Social aspects. Maps -- Social aspects. Map reading. Maps -- Miscellanea. |
| Title: | On the map : a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / Simon Garfield ; [foreword by Dava Sobel]. |
| Physical description: | 464 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 22 cm. |
| 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. |
| Notes: | Col. maps on lining papers. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781592407798 : 159240779X : |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1412846 |
| Bib No.: | 1412846 |
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