On The Map: Why The World Looks The Way It Does

For The Love Of Maps: Foreword by Dava Sobel Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself 1 What Great Minds Knew 2 The Men Who Sold the World It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are? 3 The World Takes Shape Here Be Dragons 4 Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon 5 The Mystery of Vinland 6 Welcome to Amerigo California as an Island 7 What's the Good of Mercator? Keeping it Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage 8 The World in a Book Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders 9 Mapping a Cittee (without forder troble) 10 Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey A Ninteenth-Century Murder Map 11 The Legendary Mountains of Kong The Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell 12 Cholera and the Map that Stopped It Across Australia with Burke and Wills 13 X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island 14 The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious 15 Mrs P and the A-Z The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube 16 Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map 17 Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives A Hareraising Masquerade 18 How to Make a Very Big Globe Churchill's Map Room 19 The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief Women Can't Read Maps. Oh, Really? 20 Driving Into Lakes: How Sat Nav Put the World in a Box The Canals of Mars 21 Pass Go and Proceed Direct to Skyrim 22 Mapping the Brain Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere Acknowledgements Bibliography Picture credits Index