On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks - Hardcover

Garfield, Simon

 
9781592407798: On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 159240779X ISBN 13: 9781592407798
Verlag: Gotham Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Typereveals the fascinating relationship between man and map.

Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps.
Imagine a world without maps. How would we travel? Could we own land? What would men and women argue about in cars? Scientists have even suggested that mappingnot languageis what elevated our prehistoric ancestors from ape-dom. Follow the history of maps from the early explorers’ maps and the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the satellite renderings on our smartphones, Garfield explores the unique way that maps relate and realign our historyand reflect the best and worst of what makes us human.
Featuring a foreword by Dava Sobel and packed with fascinating tales of cartographic intrigue, outsize personalities, and amusing pocket maps” on an array of subjects from how to fold a map to the strangest maps on the Internet,On the Map is a rich historical tapestry infused with Garfield’s signature narrative flair. Map-obsessives and everyone who lovedJust My Type will be lining up to join Garfield on his audacious journey through time and around the globe.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon Garfield is the author of fourteen acclaimed books of nonfiction includingJust My Type. He lives in London and St. Ives, Cornwall.

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Verlag
Gotham Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
159240779X
ISBN 13 
9781592407798
Einband
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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