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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,504 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,402 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 — 14,454 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,247 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 — 2,409 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,844 ratings — published 2012
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,445 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 26 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,743 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 — 2,879 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 — 78,547 ratings — published 1995
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.87 — 439 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 — 5,049 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 3.62 — 83,729 ratings — published 2022
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,008 ratings — published 2018
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 944 ratings — published 2004
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 407 ratings — published 2009
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 33,007 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 — 8,811 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 — 522 ratings — published 2014
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,121 ratings — published 2006
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.96 — 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 — 1,384 ratings — published 2009
The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,887 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 — 876 ratings — published 2003
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,689 ratings — published 2025
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 151 ratings — published
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,248 ratings — published 2014
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.59 — 316 ratings — published 2002
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 4.14 — 70 ratings — published 2001
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.38 — 65 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 4.17 — 605 ratings — published 2021
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.75 — 336 ratings — published 2017
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 — 866 ratings — published 2015
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Chairman's Circle Books)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,287 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.50 — 121 ratings — published 1992
The Map Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.10 — 149 ratings — published 2005
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 40 ratings — published 1997
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.80 — 64 ratings — published 2005
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.91 — 110 ratings — published
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 671 ratings — published 2013
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.66 — 406 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 — 210 ratings — published 2016
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.15 — 328 ratings — published 2015
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,055 ratings — published 1981
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,036 ratings — published 2019
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.07 — 141 ratings — published 2005
Elements of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.71 — 51 ratings — published 1969
“The evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest the existence in remote times, before the rise of any of the known cultures, of a true civilization, of a comparatively advanced sort, which either was localized in one area but had worldwide commerce, or was, in a real sense, a worldwide culture. This culture, at least in some respects, may well have been more advanced than the civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, and Rome. In astronomy, nautical science, mapmaking and possibly ship-building, it was perhaps more advanced than any state of culture before the 18th Century of the Christian Era. It was in the 18th Century that we first developed a practical means of finding longitude. It was in the 18th Century that we first accurately measured the circumference of the earth. Not until the 19th Century did we begin to send out ships for purposes of whaling or exploration into the Arctic or Antarctic Seas. The maps indicate that some ancient people may have done all these things.”
― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
― Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
“I was so busy making maps I let them argue. I figured I’d show them a picture of where the rift valley was and where it pulled apart. There’s truth in the old cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words and that seeing is believing.”
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