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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,452 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,248 ratings — published 2011
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,191 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,202 ratings — published 1991
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,410 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,805 ratings — published 2012
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,404 ratings — published 2016
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,849 ratings — published 2000
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,324 ratings — published 2015
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,471 ratings — published 1995
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 427 ratings — published 1981
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,892 ratings — published 2009
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.02 — 420 ratings — published 2009
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.63 — 81,337 ratings — published 2022
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 983 ratings — published 2018
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 939 ratings — published 2004
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 405 ratings — published 2009
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 32,248 ratings — published 2010
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.05 — 135 ratings — published 2007
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,751 ratings — published 2009
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 506 ratings — published 2014
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 327 ratings — published 2010
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,371 ratings — published 2009
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,725 ratings — published 2006
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,786 ratings — published 2014
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 868 ratings — published 2003
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.39 — 148 ratings — published
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,158 ratings — published 2014
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 86 ratings — published 2008
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 560 ratings — published 2021
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.80 — 844 ratings — published 2015
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.61 — 308 ratings — published 2002
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.37 — 63 ratings — published 1972
The Power of Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.48 — 118 ratings — published 1992
The Map Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.10 — 147 ratings — published 2005
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.54 — 37 ratings — published 1997
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.78 — 63 ratings — published 2005
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 320 ratings — published 2017
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 658 ratings — published 2013
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,270 ratings — published 2010
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,201 ratings — published 2025
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 383 ratings — published 2017
Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 208 ratings — published 2016
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 323 ratings — published 2015
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,846 ratings — published 1981
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,965 ratings — published 2019
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.06 — 137 ratings — published 2005
Elements of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.71 — 51 ratings — published 1969
Semiology of graphics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.32 — 158 ratings — published 1967
“Though [Marco] Polo himself states frankly that he has never visited Japan -- and thus that what he has to say about it is second-hand and perhaps inaccurate -- the notion of the mysterious island kingdom of Cipango that he planted in European consciousness at the end of the thirteenth century was later one of several powerful influences that spurred Christopher Columbus forward in his crossings of the Atlantic at the end of the fifteenth century. This was so because Columbus -- underestimating the circumference of the earth and knowing nothing of the existence of the Americas or of the Pacific Ocean -- believed that he could reach Cipango, and thence the Chinese mainland beyond, by sailing directly westwards across the Atlantic from Europe. Columbus is also likely to have calculated that Cipango would be reached after only a relatively short journey towards the west -- for he had read Marco Polo, who describes Cipango, erroneously, as lying 'far out to sea' fully 1500 miles to the east of the Chinese mainland (the true distance is nowhere much more than 500 miles).”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“Every history is a map: it leaves out some features of reality, and singles out others which are thought to display its essential structure. When a historical map is drawn, as ours is, from specific groups outward, it has a special character. The process of mapping becomes the surveyor's process of triangulation, and the reference points are important less in themselves than as marks for triangulation-that is, as points from which to take a bearing. This is the principle which has guided us whenever we have had to make a choice between men; which of them, we have asked, best expresses the essence of his time.”
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