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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Garfield, Simon
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, 2013.
Materias:
Cartografía > Historia.
Cartografía > Aspectos sociales.
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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