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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 — 4,492 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,383 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 — 14,368 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,230 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 28 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,837 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 — 1,431 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 — 125,256 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 — 2,877 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 — 78,116 ratings — published 1995
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.87 — 438 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 — 5,015 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 — 83,244 ratings — published 2022
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,003 ratings — published 2018
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 942 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 — 32,879 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 — 8,806 ratings — published 2009
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.24 — 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 — 57,792 ratings — published 2006
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.96 — 330 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 — 1,382 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 3.64 — 3,875 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 — 874 ratings — published 2003
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.39 — 150 ratings — published
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,242 ratings — published 2014
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.60 — 314 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
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,322 ratings — published 2025
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 — 582 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 — 333 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 3.79 — 859 ratings — published 2015
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Chairman's Circle Books)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,283 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.49 — 120 ratings — published 1992
The Map Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.10 — 148 ratings — published 2005
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.51 — 39 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
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 668 ratings — published 2013
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.87 — 102 ratings — published
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.66 — 400 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 — 209 ratings — published 2016
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 327 ratings — published 2015
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,035 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 — 2,026 ratings — published 2019
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.07 — 140 ratings — published 2005
Elements of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.71 — 51 ratings — published 1969
“It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread so widely-a busted cart here, a dead dog there-that often people went through it without even knowing it was there, and really it only appeared on the maps because cartographers get embarrassed about big empty spaces.”
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“I think our maps contributed to a revolution in geological thinking, which is some ways compares to the Copernican revolution. Scientists and the general public got their first relatively realistic image of a vast part of the planet that they could never see. The maps received wide coverage and were widely circulated. They brought the theory of continental drift within the realm of rational speculation. You could see the worldwide mid-ocean ridge and you could see that it coincided with earthquakes. The borders of the plates took shape, leading rapidly to the more comprehensive theory of plate tectonics.”
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