by Simon Garfield
One of my geeky delights is maps. I love to look at them. While I rarely use reference books anymore, I do still pore over my old world atlas. I like things that have mappish motifs. I have a globe. Somewhere, in a box, I have various folding maps from various trips, because that's one souvenir I fi...
Maps can be a source of wonder to those that like to explore the world, or bring a sense of bewilderment to those that are directionally challenged. Garfield brings his sense of wonder to this subjectIn his engaging style, he write about all aspects of maps, from the earliest know maps, a new produc...
This book was actually great! I really enjoyed it a lot, though I wasn't expecting to, necessarily.I had expected a sort of chronological survey of human use of maps, and the book does take a loose chronological approach, but it's so much more than that. Each chapter is about a different type of map...
I've loved poring over maps and globes for as long as I can remember so I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Garfield takes readers on a fascinating, informative, and entertaining tour of cartographic history.
I didn't get as much out of this as I expected. My one insight was about the reorientation when someone is looking at a GPS and everywhere starts from where they are, versus a map, where you orient yourself in the whole scheme.
It probably doesn't surprise you that, in addition to being a book geek and a techno geek, I'm a map geek. Are you a map geek, too?If you are, then this book is for you. Every story out there with a map subtext is here. Treasure maps. Maps from Lewis & Clark. Map thieves. The story of GPS.Read it. E...
This is a fascinating book. Garfield obviously loves maps, and his map-infatuation is contagious. He rhapsodizes on the history of maps and their beauty, the people who created maps and the people who used them. Explorers and monks, scientists and artists, sailors and doctors – they all found their ...
BOTWListen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n61s5/Book_of_the_Week_On_the_Map_Episode_1/Simon Garfield starts his journey through the story of maps in the Great Library of Alexandria where, for the first time, scholars began to plot the wider world.Ptolemy's atlas of AD 150 was to provi...
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