Cartography

Cartography is the science of map-making.

The Map Thief
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Plotted: A Literary Atlas
How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Maps
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
The Vanishing Island (The Chronicles of the Black Tulip #1)
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings (DK History Changers)
A History of the World in 12 Maps
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
How to Lie with Maps
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
A History of the World in 12 Maps
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Mapmakers
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
The Cartographers
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-HitchingLost Islands by Henry StommelPhantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. JohnsonNo Longer on the Map by Raymond H. RamsayThe Lost Land of Lemuria by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Phantom Islands
23 books — 1 voter
Glasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Secret Plan of Canberra by Peter ProudfootBolivia, as the Insidious Author and Persistent Perpetrator o... by Hinton Rowan HelperThe Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John Howgego
•Kenocartographobia
100 books — 1 voter

The Histories by HerodotusGeographica by Walahfried StraboFollowing Caesar by John KeaheyChronicles from pre-Celtic Europe by Alewyn J RaubenheimerThe Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
Ancient Geography
12 books — 6 voters
Paper Towns by John GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchRoyally Lost by Angie StantonNo Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
Fiction with Map Covers
56 books — 25 voters


Graham Hancock
If the normal portolano is indeed derived from the lost atlas of Marinus of Tyre, then it follows that other high-quality maps of regions much further afield than the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and indeed a world map, might also have been preserved by the Arabs -- for we know from Ptolemy's testimony that other Marinus maps, including a world map, did once exist. It will therefore do no harm to keep an open mind to the possibility that the portolan world maps that began to appear during th ...more
Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

Ken Jennings
Columbus’s fateful voyage was inspired by his study of a map by Paolo Toscanelli. But there was also the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, which killed hundreds of people until a physician, John Snow, drew a map demonstrating that a single contaminated water pump was the source of the illness, thereby founding the science of epidemiology. There was the 1944 invasion at Normandy, which succeeded only because of the unheralded contribution of mapmakers who had stolen across the English Channel by n ...more
Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

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