Most Read This Week In Cartography

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The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
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

Dean F. Wilson
“ The desert mocked the map-makers. ”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

Jamie Arpin-Ricci
“ From cave paintings depicting hunting grounds to the Babylonian tablets capturing the "whole world" (as they experienced it). Through the advancements of the Middle Ages, especially from Islamic scholars and Chinese cartographers. Massive strides came about with the Renaissance, as exploration and expansion abounded. Then on to the massive leaps to modern surveying and satellite imagery. The journey has been astonishing! I cannot help but think that this mirrors the path of our understanding of ...more ”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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