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Garfield, Simon

 
9781846685101: On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does

Synopsis

From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps.

Packed with accompanying map illustrations and images.

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À propos de l'auteur

Simon Garfield is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of non-fiction, including the international bestseller, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, and a trilogy of edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, which includes the bestselling Our Hidden Lives. He lives in London and St Ives, with old maps lining the walls.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, this title examines how maps both relate and realign our history. It explores the legendary, impassable mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America and more.

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