Maps

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes.

Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract s
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Cartographers
A History of the World in 12 Maps
How to Lie with Maps
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
The Atlas of Middle-Earth
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Distance Between Us by Reyna GrandeThe Map Thief by Michael BlandingSea People by Christina ThompsonWhispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
Books with Maps on the Cover
46 books — 13 voters

The Cavalier by Israh AziziShadow and Bone by Leigh BardugoThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienSiege and Storm by Leigh BardugoCrooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Marvelous Maps
86 books — 16 voters
Paris (My Globetrotter Book) by Marisha WojciechowskaTokyo by Marisha WojciechowskaNew York by Marisha WojciechowskaBangkok by Marisha WojciechowskaPuzzle Island by Paul S. Adshead
Best Activity Books
176 books — 16 voters

Paper Towns by John  GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRoyally Lost by Angie StantonRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchNo Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
Fiction with Map Covers
58 books — 28 voters
Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean by Philip Howard ColombA Maverick Traveller by Mary Jane WalkerThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Rise and Fall of Nader Shah by Willem M. FloorWorld-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by Allison B. Kavey
Speaking In Foams
101 books — 2 voters


Beryl Markham
It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of towns, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit.
Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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