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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction by Professor Jeremy Black
The Choice of Maps
The Earliest Maps
Ancient Clay Maps
The Mapping of the Dream Time
The Nazca Enigma
Islamic Guardians of Knowledge
Chinese Cartography
The Nine Worlds of the Norsemen
The Music of the Spheres
Cartographic Breakthroughs
Ptolemy
The Peutinger Table
Celestial Charts
Saxton’s Elizabethan England
Edmond Halley
Alexander von Humboldt
A Single Map Creates a New Science
Pathfinder of the Seas
The Killer Cholera
The City Panorama Map
Booth’s Poverty Map
Harry Beck’s Map
Distorting to Reveal the City
Surveying Venus
Mapping the Tsunami
Invisible Values, Invisible Lives
The Age of Exploration
Portolan Sea-Charts
The Greatest Navigational Error in History
Apian’s Cosmographia
The Fourth Part of the World
Ortelius Brings the World to Book
Kaerius
The Blaeu Family
Frederick de Wit
John Smith and John White
The First Accurate North American Maps
The Chickasaw Map
Japanese Isolationism
Australia Becomes an Island Continent
Lewis and Clark
The Royal Navy ‘Conquers’ Antarctica
Military Maps
Da Vinci’s New Viewpoint
‘Make Me a Map of the Valley’
The Battle of the Modder River
Colenso
Thiepval Sacrifice, 1916
Passchendaele
Plan D in Belgium
Dunkirk
Defences of Dover
Omaha Beach
Cold War Subversion
Drawing the Line
The Anglo–French Map Wars
A Triumph of Trigonometry
Africa after the Berlin Conference of 1884–85
Transcontinental Railroad
John F. Kennedy and Laos
Maps of Israel
Fantasies, Follies & Fabrications
The Lost Continent of Atlantis
King Arthur and the Isle of Avalon
New France or Fake America?
Utopia in Texas
Mocking National Stereotypes
Propaganda Maps
Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
The Vinland Map
Propaganda Projections
The Pizzigano ‘New World’ Map
Bibliography & Acknowledgements
Index
Picture Credits
Copyright
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