ARGONAUT BOOKS

A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives. Reviews A wonderfully readable adventure . . . An essential guide that illuminates how much of our understanding of the world, the past, and indeed the people around us, is shaped by the mathematician and the mapmaker.Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of The Phantom AtlasOpens our eyes to the use of 'mapmaking' in the broadest sense . . . If you have ever wondered why an airliner bound from London to Los Angeles flies over Greenland, how we know what lies inside the ...Read More