On the map : why the world looks the way it does /: why the world looks the way it does. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Garfield.
• Other Names: Garfield, Simon
• Contents: Cover Page; 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; It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are?; 2 The Men Who Sold the World; Here Be Dragons; 3 The World Takes Shape; 4 Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon; 5 The Mystery of Vinland; California as an Island; 6 Welcome to Amerigo; Keeping it Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage; 7 What's the Good of Mercator?; Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders; 8 The World in a Book; 9 Mapping a Cittee (without Forder Troble); A Nineteenth-Century Murder Map. 10 Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance SurveyThe Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell; 11 The Legendary Mountains of Kong; Across Australia with Burke and Wills; 12 Cholera and the Map that Stopped It; 13 X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island; Charles Booth Thinks You're Vicious; 14 The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped; The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube; 15 Mrs P and the A-Z; J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map; 16 Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook; A Hareraising Masquerade. Chapter 18Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Epilogue.
• Publisher Details: London : Profile
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (674 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 912.09; Cartography -- History; Maps -- Miscellanea; REFERENCE / Atlases & Gazetteers; TRAVEL / Maps & Road Atlases; Cartography; Maps; Geography; Earth & Environmental Sciences; Cartography; Electronic books; Electronic books; History; Trivia and miscellanea
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847658555; 1847658555; 9781742695365; 1742695361
• Related ISBNs: 9781846685095; 1846685095; 9781592407798; 159240779X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.