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Title: On the Map
Author: Simon Garfield
Narrator: Simon Shepherd
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-01-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 50 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, World Affairs
Publisher's Summary:
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history.
His compelling narratives range from the quest to create the perfect globe to the challenges of mapping Africa and Antarctica, from spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of America, from Ordnance Survey to the mapping of Monopoly and Skyrim and from rare map dealers to cartographic frauds. En route, there are "pocket map" tales on dragons and undergrounds, a 19th-century murder map, the research conducted on the different ways that men and women approach a map, and an explanation of the curious long-term cartographic role played by animals. On the Map is a witty, irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there, and where we're going.
