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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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
The Collectors
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
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
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
A History of the World in 12 Maps
How to Lie with Maps
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
The Atlas of Middle-Earth
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World

David  Mitchell
It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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We have shelves full of maps of places that only used to exist. Everything unique is vanishing.
Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

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