Secret Maps: How they Conceal and Reveal the World - Couverture rigide

Harper, Tom; Dykes, Nick; Peszko, Magdalena

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712355642 ISBN 13 : 9780712355643

Editeur : British Library Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an ‘X’, or even your personal phone screen showing a precise ‘blue dot’ location. These maps contain confidential, coded, precious or private locational information and have, as a result, been hidden away or even falsified to preserve the advantage of ownership. This beautifully illustrated and deeply original book tells the story of how maps, secrets and the data they betray, have come together in western culture over the past six centuries. It uncovers the key clandestine workings of imperial secrets, state secrecy, wider secrets within societies and more recent concepts of personal privacy. Combining the intrigue, excitement and danger that drives human fascination with secrets and the peculiar revelatory thrill that maps give us, it is an essential story with an unsettling edge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Harper is Lead Curator in the British Library’s Map Department. In this volume he works alongside his fellow Curators Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko. All three are curating the Library’s forthcoming Secret Maps exhibition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Library Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712355642
• ISBN 13: 9780712355643
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING; https://www.bl.uk/; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italie