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• 2013375932 alternative "Why the world looks the way it does.".
• 2013375932 contributor B12787555.
• 2013375932 created "2012.".
• 2013375932 date "2012".
• 2013375932 date "2012.".
• 2013375932 dateCopyrighted "2012.".
• 2013375932 description "Contents note continued: California as an Island -- 7.What's the Good of Mercator? -- How the world looked in 1569 - and today, even if the UN still favours the Postel Azimuthal Equidistant -- Keeping it Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage -- 8.The World in a Book -- In which the Atlas becomes a craze in seventeenth-century Holland, is adopted by The Times, and then turns to agit-prop -- Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders -- 9.Mapping a Cittee (without forder troble) -- London gets the map bug, too, pioneers street mapping, and John Ogilby charts the course of every major road in Britannia -- 10.Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey -- Britain, spurred by Jacobite revolt, makes the Ordnance Survey, extending to India. But what is the symbol for a picnic site? -- A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map -- 11.The Legendary Mountains of Kong -- How an impassable mountain range spread and spread, until a French army officer found it wasn't there --".
• 2013375932 description "Contents note continued: In which the Muppets perfect travel by map and we stalk the stars -- A Hareraising Masquerade -- 18.How to Make a Very Big Globe -- From scratch ... when you used to run a bowling alley -- Churchill's Map Room -- 19.The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief -- How tempting are maps - and just what kind of dealers and thieves do they attract? -- Women Can't Read Maps. Oh, Really? -- 20.Driving Into Lakes: How Sat Nav Put the World in a Box -- How we learnt to watch the dullest flight movie ever - and, with GPS, the Dutch once again took over the world's mapping -- The Canals of Mars -- 21.Pass Go and Proceed Direct to Skyrim -- Maps as games, from jigsaw puzzles to Risk, and why computer games may be the future of cartography -- 22.Mapping the Brain -- What taxi drivers have to offer the world of the neuroscientist -- Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere -- How the Internet changed everything.".
• 2013375932 description "Contents note continued: The Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell -- 12.Cholera and the Map that Stopped It -- How mapping played its part in identifying the cause of the disease -- Across Australia with Burke and Wills -- 13.X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island -- Treasure maps in literature and life -- 14.The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped -- How explorers found the South Pole without a map, and named the region after their families, friends and enemies -- Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious -- 15.Mrs P and the A-Z -- The woman who reputedly walked 23,000 London streets may have walked considerably less -- The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube -- 16.Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook -- The majestic fold-out engravings of Murray and Baedeker give way to another cartographic dark age -- J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map -- 17.Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives --".
• 2013375932 description "Includes bibliography (p. 446-448) and index.".
• 2013375932 description "Machine generated contents note: 1.What Great Minds Knew -- How the ancient Greeks - Eratosthenes and Ptolemy - first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it -- 2.The Men Who Sold the World -- The day Britain's greatest cartographic treasure - the medieval Mappa Mundi - went to the auction houses to fix a leaky roof -- It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are? -- 3.The World Takes Shape -- The world centres on Jerusalem - and the Poles appear -- Here Be Dragons -- 4.Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon -- How the Italians became the world's greatest map makers, and then the Germans, and then the Dutch. And how a Venetian friar discovered the secrets of the East and ended up on the Moon -- 5.The Mystery of Vinland -- Did Norse sailors really reach and map America before Columbus? Or is the world's most curious map fakery's finest hour? -- 6.Welcome to Amerigo -- In which Ptolemy reappears in Europe and America gets named after the wrong man --".
• 2013375932 extent "464 p. :".
• 2013375932 identifier "1846685095 (hbk)".
• 2013375932 identifier "1847658555 (ebook)".
• 2013375932 identifier "9781846685095 (hbk)".
• 2013375932 identifier "9781847658555 (ebook)".
• 2013375932 issued "2012".
• 2013375932 issued "2012.".
• 2013375932 language "eng".
• 2013375932 publisher "London : Profile Books,".
• 2013375932 subject "Cartography History.".
• 2013375932 subject "GA201 .G37 2012".
• 2013375932 subject "Maps Miscellanea.".
• 2013375932 subject "World maps History.".
• 2013375932 tableOfContents "Contents note continued: California as an Island -- 7.What's the Good of Mercator? -- How the world looked in 1569 - and today, even if the UN still favours the Postel Azimuthal Equidistant -- Keeping it Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage -- 8.The World in a Book -- In which the Atlas becomes a craze in seventeenth-century Holland, is adopted by The Times, and then turns to agit-prop -- Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders -- 9.Mapping a Cittee (without forder troble) -- London gets the map bug, too, pioneers street mapping, and John Ogilby charts the course of every major road in Britannia -- 10.Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey -- Britain, spurred by Jacobite revolt, makes the Ordnance Survey, extending to India. But what is the symbol for a picnic site? -- A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map -- 11.The Legendary Mountains of Kong -- How an impassable mountain range spread and spread, until a French army officer found it wasn't there --".
• 2013375932 tableOfContents "Contents note continued: In which the Muppets perfect travel by map and we stalk the stars -- A Hareraising Masquerade -- 18.How to Make a Very Big Globe -- From scratch ... when you used to run a bowling alley -- Churchill's Map Room -- 19.The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief -- How tempting are maps - and just what kind of dealers and thieves do they attract? -- Women Can't Read Maps. Oh, Really? -- 20.Driving Into Lakes: How Sat Nav Put the World in a Box -- How we learnt to watch the dullest flight movie ever - and, with GPS, the Dutch once again took over the world's mapping -- The Canals of Mars -- 21.Pass Go and Proceed Direct to Skyrim -- Maps as games, from jigsaw puzzles to Risk, and why computer games may be the future of cartography -- 22.Mapping the Brain -- What taxi drivers have to offer the world of the neuroscientist -- Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere -- How the Internet changed everything.".
• 2013375932 tableOfContents "Contents note continued: The Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell -- 12.Cholera and the Map that Stopped It -- How mapping played its part in identifying the cause of the disease -- Across Australia with Burke and Wills -- 13.X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island -- Treasure maps in literature and life -- 14.The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped -- How explorers found the South Pole without a map, and named the region after their families, friends and enemies -- Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious -- 15.Mrs P and the A-Z -- The woman who reputedly walked 23,000 London streets may have walked considerably less -- The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube -- 16.Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook -- The majestic fold-out engravings of Murray and Baedeker give way to another cartographic dark age -- J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map -- 17.Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives --".
• 2013375932 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: 1.What Great Minds Knew -- How the ancient Greeks - Eratosthenes and Ptolemy - first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it -- 2.The Men Who Sold the World -- The day Britain's greatest cartographic treasure - the medieval Mappa Mundi - went to the auction houses to fix a leaky roof -- It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are? -- 3.The World Takes Shape -- The world centres on Jerusalem - and the Poles appear -- Here Be Dragons -- 4.Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon -- How the Italians became the world's greatest map makers, and then the Germans, and then the Dutch. And how a Venetian friar discovered the secrets of the East and ended up on the Moon -- 5.The Mystery of Vinland -- Did Norse sailors really reach and map America before Columbus? Or is the world's most curious map fakery's finest hour? -- 6.Welcome to Amerigo -- In which Ptolemy reappears in Europe and America gets named after the wrong man --".
• 2013375932 title "On the map : why the world looks the way it does / Simon Garfield.".
• 2013375932 title "Why the world looks the way it does.".
• 2013375932 type "text".