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

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

Related/Included Titles:: For the love of maps : foreword /
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

Table of 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.
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.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 464 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 22 cm
General Note:: Col. maps on lining papers.