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
Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home
The Mapmakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #2)
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
Terrible Maps: The stupidly funny illustrated gift book perfect for geography lovers
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
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
The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our 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
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
A Town Like Alice by Nevil ShuteThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
511 books — 136 voters
Glasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisThe 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 Helper
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101 books — 2 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Two Towers by J.R.R. TolkienThe Return of the King by J.R.R. TolkienThe Cavalier by Israh Azizi
Fantasy Books with Maps
229 books — 89 voters

In Search of the Return by Joshua   RaymondQuiet American by Graham GreeneThe Lover by Marguerite DurasLotusland by David JoinerTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Fictitious Vietnam
48 books — 34 voters
An Anonymous Girl by Greer HendricksMy Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dice Man by Luke RhinehartY is for Fidelity by Logan Ryan SmithThe Dumb House by John Burnside
Dark Psychological Fiction
19 books — 11 voters


Alfred Korzybski
“ A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ”
― Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Reif Larsen
“ A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected. ”
― Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

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