On the Map
A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
by Simon Garfield, Dava Sobel

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• Format: hardcover, 464 pages
• Author: Simon Garfield, Dava Sobel
• Release date: December 27, 2012
• Language: english
• Genres: history, geography, travel, science, maps, cartography, microhistory, historical
• Awards: Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2014), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2012)
• Publisher: Gotham
• ISBN: 9781592407798 (159240779X)

About The Book

Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of the Just My Type reveals 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 mapping — not language — is 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 history — and 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 loved Just My Type will be lining up to join Garfield on his audacious journey through time and around the globe.

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