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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 — 4,467 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,274 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 3.81 — 14,225 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,211 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 — 2,407 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,810 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 — 1,409 ratings — published 2016
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 120,785 ratings — published 2015
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,856 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 — 77,146 ratings — published 1995
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 429 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 — 4,911 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 — 81,797 ratings — published 2022
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 989 ratings — published 2018
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.01 — 940 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 — 32,430 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 — 8,762 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 — 508 ratings — published 2014
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,989 ratings — published 2006
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 328 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 — 1,374 ratings — published 2009
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,806 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 4.40 — 149 ratings — published
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,177 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
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.37 — 63 ratings — published 1972
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 — 568 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 — 847 ratings — published 2015
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.61 — 311 ratings — published 2002
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 — 322 ratings — published 2017
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 666 ratings — published 2013
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Chairman's Circle Books)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,273 ratings — published 2010
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,726 ratings — published 2025
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.65 — 388 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 4.15 — 325 ratings — published 2015
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,897 ratings — published 1981
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.90 — 67 ratings — published
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,992 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
“It is Professor Fuson's view that Chinese charts of Taiwan and Japan were the source of the 1424 portrayal of Antilia and Satanaze. He makes a very persuasive case that such charts are likely to have originated from the seven spectacular voyages of discovery made by the famous Ming admiral Cheng Ho between 1405 and 1433.
[...] Much suggests, however, that Robert Fuson is correct to deduce that the charts of Taiwan and Japan that somehow found their way into the hands of Zuane Pizzagano in Venice in 1424 must have originated from the voyages of Cheng Ho.
Yet there is a problem. [...] Antilia and Satanaze on the 1424 chart don't show Taiwan and Japan as they looked in the time of Cheng Ho, but rather as they looked approximately 12,500 years ago during the meltdown of the Ice Age.
Is it possible that Cheng Ho, too, like Columbus, was guided in his voyages by ancient maps and charts, come down from another time and populated by the ghosts of a drowned world?”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
[...] Much suggests, however, that Robert Fuson is correct to deduce that the charts of Taiwan and Japan that somehow found their way into the hands of Zuane Pizzagano in Venice in 1424 must have originated from the voyages of Cheng Ho.
Yet there is a problem. [...] Antilia and Satanaze on the 1424 chart don't show Taiwan and Japan as they looked in the time of Cheng Ho, but rather as they looked approximately 12,500 years ago during the meltdown of the Ice Age.
Is it possible that Cheng Ho, too, like Columbus, was guided in his voyages by ancient maps and charts, come down from another time and populated by the ghosts of a drowned world?”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“If the normal portolano is indeed derived from the lost atlas of Marinus of Tyre, then it follows that other high-quality maps of regions much further afield than the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and indeed a world map, might also have been preserved by the Arabs -- for we know from Ptolemy's testimony that other Marinus maps, including a world map, did once exist. It will therefore do no harm to keep an open mind to the possibility that the portolan world maps that began to appear during the century after the Carta Pisane, might also have been influenced by earlier 'Tyrian sea-fish' maps of Phoenician origin. Christopher Columbus, whose passionate belief in lands across the Atlantic lead to his 'discovery' of the New World, seems to hint at a Phoenician connection when he describes one of the inspirations for his journey:
'Aristotle in his book On Marvellous Things reports a story that some Carthaginian merchants sailed over the Ocean Sea to a very fertile island ... this island some Portuguese showed me on their charts under the name Antilia.'
Antilia first appears on a portolan chart of 1424. It is a mysterious presence there, a riddle.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
'Aristotle in his book On Marvellous Things reports a story that some Carthaginian merchants sailed over the Ocean Sea to a very fertile island ... this island some Portuguese showed me on their charts under the name Antilia.'
Antilia first appears on a portolan chart of 1424. It is a mysterious presence there, a riddle.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
