My gratitude extends first and foremost to the contributors to this book—Jean-Marc Besse, Barbara Piatti, Robert Stockhammer, Oliver Simons, Bruno Bosteels, Burkhardt Wolf, Simone Pinet, Ricardo Padrón, Tom Conley, John K. Noyes, Patrick M. Bray, Dominic Thomas, Martin Brückner, Jörg Dünne, and Clara Rowland. Without their willingness to take time from their own projects there would be no book. Among them, however, one person must be singled out for his pivotal role in the field as well as for his efforts in the production of this volume. With singular charm and enthusiasm, Tom Conley has for decades been a force motrice in the establishment and development of literature and cartography. Among the contributors are several of his students, myself included, and during my work on the book he has on numerous occasions displayed his unfailing generosity. A remarkable exploratory seminar—“Cartography and Spatial Thinking from Humanism to the Humanities”—that he and Katharina Piechocki organized at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University convened scholars from a range of disciplines, some of them represented in this volume, and gave me useful feedback on the introduction and a wealth of new ideas. At MIT Press I am most thankful to my editors, Gita Manaktala and Marc Lowenthal, for taking on the project, to Jesús J. Hernández for his help in guiding the manuscript through the publication process, and to the design team. Two outside readers offered detailed and useful reports whose insights and suggestions I have tried to adopt. In the form of a Sapere Aude grant The Danish Council for Independent Research generously supported the production of the book. Andrew Patten translated the chapter by Jörg Dünne, and Emily Finer provided me with a scan of the wonderful doubly inverted map in Viktor Shklovsky’s essay on Tristram Shandy. The unsung heroes of any book that deals with cartography are the librarians around the world who patiently indulge our requests for ever more information, material, and scans. There are far too many to name, but you know who you are and so do we.