On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does by Simon Garfield

On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does

Simon Garfield

464 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history nature travel adventurous funny informative slow-paced
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With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery...

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