1, Simon Garfield

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1, Simon Garfield

Statement of responsibility

Simon Garfield

Instantiates

• 1

Publication

• New York, N.Y., Gotham Books, ©2013

Note

Col. maps on lining papers

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index

Contents

• Welcome to Amerigo
• What's the good of Mercator?
• The world in a book
• Mapping a cittee (without forder troble)
• Six increasingly coordinated tales of the Ordnance Survey
• The legendary mountains of Kong
• The opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan
• Cholera and the map that stopped it
• "X" marks the spot : Treasure island
• The worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped
• For the love of maps : foreword
• Maps in all our hands : a brief history of the guidebook
• Casablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives
• How to make a very big globe
• The biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief
• Driving into lakes : how GPS put the world in a box
• Pass go and proceed directly to Skyrim
• Mapping the brain
• Epilogue : the instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere
• by Dava Sobel
• Introduction : the map that wrote itself
• What great minds knew
• The men who sold the world
• The world takes shape
• Venice, China and a trip to the moon
• The mystery of Vinland

Control code

|a795167619

Dimensions

22 cm.

Extent

464 p.

Isbn

9781592407798

Other physical details

ill., maps (some col.), ports.

Record ID

http://search.mel.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb28433397

System control number

(OCoLC)ocn795167619