On The Map: Why The World Looks The Way It Does
| Book | On The Map |
| Copyright Holder (Photos) | Facebook, The British Museum, The Times, Dean and Chapter of Hereford, Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust, The Folio Society, British Library, Jim Siebold, Yale University Press, Rare Book and Special Collection Divisions, Library of Congress, Leen Helmink, Arader Galleries, David Rumsey Map Collection, Janine Doyle, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc, Museum of London, University of Texas Libraries, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Rare Books Division, Princeton University, Cassini Publishing Ltd, London Transport Museum, The Poke, Imperial War Museum, Jessica Wager, Nancy Chandler, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Shutterstock, Europics, Radio Times, Google Earth, Saul Steinberg, Ellis Nadler, Olivia Harris, Reuters |
| Publisher | Profile Books |
| Printed and Bound by | Clays Ltd, St Ives plc |
| Foreword by | Dava Sobel |
| Designed by | James Alexander |
| Author photo/portrait | Justine Kanter |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Nathan Burton Design |
| First Published by | Profile Books Ltd |
| Designed at | Jade Design |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, UK |
| This Edition Published | 2013 |
| First Printing in Country | 2012 |
| Copyright | 2012 |
| Copyright | 2013 |
| Pages / Font | 464 pages / Bembo Book and Archer |
| ISBN | 978 1 846685 10 1 |
| Barcode | 9 781846 685101 |
| Price | £9.99 |
| Chapters | 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 |
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