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Cartography Books
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,442 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,186 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 — 14,097 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,181 ratings — published 1991
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,409 ratings — published 2003
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,383 ratings — published 2016
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,790 ratings — published 2012
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,841 ratings — published 2000
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,095 ratings — published 1995
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 115,456 ratings — published 2015
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,844 ratings — published 2009
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.87 — 422 ratings — published 1981
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.02 — 417 ratings — published 2009
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.01 — 936 ratings — published 2004
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.63 — 80,251 ratings — published 2022
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 402 ratings — published 2009
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 31,876 ratings — published 2010
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,741 ratings — published 2009
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.04 — 134 ratings — published 2007
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 969 ratings — published 2018
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 — 1,368 ratings — published 2009
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,039 ratings — published 2006
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.24 — 499 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 — 863 ratings — published 2003
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,121 ratings — published 2014
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.63 — 3,734 ratings — published 2014
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 86 ratings — published 2008
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.39 — 148 ratings — published
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 68 ratings — published 2001
The Power of Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.48 — 118 ratings — published 1992
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.78 — 63 ratings — published 2005
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.18 — 541 ratings — published 2021
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.75 — 308 ratings — published
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.80 — 833 ratings — published 2015
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.41 — 652 ratings — published 2013
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.61 — 304 ratings — published 2002
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,262 ratings — published 2010
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.35 — 62 ratings — published 1972
The Map Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.09 — 148 ratings — published 2005
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.54 — 37 ratings — published 1997
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 378 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 — 202 ratings — published 2016
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,737 ratings — published 1981
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 322 ratings — published 2015
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
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.27 — 64 ratings — published 2006
Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization (Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.95 — 40 ratings — published 1998
“When I was a young girl, my parents often visited a temple from where the Arabian Sea was visible. I accompanied them only to look forward to the few moments where sea mist and a widening orb of space juxtaposed.”
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“I worked in the background for most of my career as a scientist, but I have absolutely no resentments. I thought I was lucky to have a job that was so interesting. Establishing the rift valley and the mid-ocean ridge that went all the way around the world for 40,000 miles—that was something important. You could only do that once. You can’t find anything bigger than that, at least on this planet.”
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