For the Love of Maps: Foreword |
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Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself |
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How the ancient Greeks---Eratosthenes and Ptolemy---first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it |
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2 The Men Who Sold the World |
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The day Britain's greatest cartographic treasure---the medieval Mappa Mundi---went to the auction houses to fix a leaky roof |
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It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are? |
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The world centers on Jerusalem---and the Poles appear |
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4 Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon |
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How the Italians became the world's greatest mapmakers, 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 |
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Did Norse sailors really reach and map America before Columbus? |
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Or is the world's most curious map fakery's finest hour? |
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In which Ptolemy reappears in Europe and America gets named after the wrong man |
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7 What's the Good of Mercator? |
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How the world looked in 1569---and today, even if the UN still favors the Postel Azimuthal Equidistant |
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Keeping It Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage |
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In which the Atlas becomes a craze in seventeenth-century Holland, is adopted by The Times, and then turns to agitprop |
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Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders |
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9 Mapping a Cittee (without forder troble) |
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London gets the map bug, too, pioneers street mapping, and John Ogilby charts the course of every major road in Britannia |
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10 Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey |
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Britain, spurred by Jacobite revolt, makes the Ordnance Survey, extending to India. But what is the symbol for a picnic site? |
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A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map |
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11 The Legendary Mountains of Kong |
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How an impassable mountain range spread and spread, until a French army officer found it wasn't there |
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The Low-down Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell |
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12 The Opening of America and the Gridding of Manhattan |
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How Lewis and Clark filled out the American canvas, and how New York plotted its future |
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13 Cholera and the Map that Stopped It |
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How mapping played its part in identifying the cause of the disease |
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Across Australia with Burke and Wills |
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14 "X" Marks the Spot: Treasure Island |
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Treasure maps in literature and life |
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J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map |
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15 The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped |
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How explorers found the South Pole without a map, and named the region after their families, friends and enemies |
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Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious |
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16 Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook |
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The majestic foldout engravings of Murray and Baedeker give way to another cartographic dark age |
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The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube |
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17 Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives |
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In which the Muppets perfect travel by map and we stalk the stars. A Hare-raising Masquerade |
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18 How to Make a Very Big Globe |
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From scratch... when you used to run a bowling alley |
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19 The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief |
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How tempting are maps---and just what kind of dealers and thieves do they attract? |
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Women Can't Read Maps. Oh, Really? |
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20 Driving Into Lakes: How GPS Put the World in a Box |
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How we learned to watch the dullest in-flight movie ever---and, with GPS, the Dutch once again took over the world's mapping |
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21 Pass Go and Proceed Directly to Skyrim |
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Maps as games, from jigsaw puzzles to Risk, and why computer games may be the future of cartography |
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What taxi drivers have to offer the world of the neuroscientist |
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Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere |
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How the Internet changed everything |
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Acknowledgments |
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Bibliography |
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Picture Credits |
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Index |
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