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Index
Copyright Page
Title Page
Contents
For the Love of Maps: Foreword by Dava Sobel
Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself
1 What Great Minds Knew
2 The Men Who Sold the World
It’s 1250, Do You Know Where You Are?
3 The World Takes Shape
Here Be Dragons
4 Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon
5 The Mystery of Vinland
6 Welcome to Amerigo
California as an Island
7 What’s the Good of Mercator?
Keeping it Quiet: Drake’s Silver Voyage
8 The World in a Book
Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders
9 Mapping a Cittee (without Forder Troble)
10 Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey
A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map
11 The Legendary Mountains of Kong
The Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell
12 Cholera and the Map that Stopped It
Across Australia with Burke and Wills
13 X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island
14 The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped
Charles Booth Thinks You’re Vicious
15 Mrs P and the A-Z
The Biggest Map of All: Beck’s London Tube
16 Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook
J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map
17 Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives
A Hareraising Masquerade
18 How to Make a Very Big Globe
Churchill’s Map Room
19 The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief
Women Can’t Read Maps. Oh, Really?
20 Driving Into Lakes: How Sat Nav Put the World in a Box
The Canals of Mars
21 Pass Go and Proceed Direct to Skyrim
22 Mapping the Brain
Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Picture credits
Index
Footnotes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue
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