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 Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds
Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
The Collectors
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The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
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
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
How to Lie with Maps
A History of the World in 12 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
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
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Long Journey on Foot
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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
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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

Alexander McCall Smith
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner once I saw the hills of Fife across the Forth, things of ...more
Alexander McCall Smith, Love Over Scotland

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