On the Map A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks

Name: On the Map A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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ISBN: 9781592407804

ISBN-10: 1592407803

ISBN-13: 9781592407804

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Authors: Simon Garfield, Dava Sobel

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Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of the Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. Imagine a world without maps. How would we travel? Could we own land? What would men and women argue about in cars? Scientists have even suggested that mappingnot languageis what elevated our prehistoric ancestors from ape-dom. Follow the history of maps from the early explorers’ maps and the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Simon Garfield is the author of several acclaimed books, including "The End of the Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS", winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.