Cartography

Cartography is the science of map-making.

The Map Thief
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Plotted: A Literary Atlas
How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Maps
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
The Vanishing Island (The Chronicles of the Black Tulip #1)
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings (DK History Changers)
A History of the World in 12 Maps
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
How to Lie with Maps
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
A History of the World in 12 Maps
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
The Mapmakers
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
The Cartographers
The Map to Everywhere by Carrie RyanMapmakers and the Lost Magic by Cameron ChittockRowan of Rin by Emily RoddaThe Armoured Goretusk by Kris HumphreyMarauder's Map Guide to Hogwarts by Erinn Pascal
Magic Maps and Scale Models
52 books — 5 voters
The Histories by HerodotusGeographica by Walahfried StraboFollowing Caesar by John KeaheyChronicles from pre-Celtic Europe by Alewyn J RaubenheimerThe Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox
Ancient Geography
12 books — 6 voters

The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-HitchingLost Islands by Henry StommelPhantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. JohnsonNo Longer on the Map by Raymond H. RamsayThe Lost Land of Lemuria by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Phantom Islands
22 books — 1 voter
Glasgow's Secret Geometry by Harry BellThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Secret Plan of Canberra by Peter ProudfootBolivia, as the Insidious Author and Persistent Perpetrator o... by Hinton Rowan HelperThe Historical Encyclopedia of Atlantic Nautical Hazards by Raymond John Howgego
•Kenocartographobia
100 books — 1 voter

The Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellPaper Towns by John GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchRoyally Lost by Angie Stanton
Fiction with Map Covers
56 books — 33 voters


Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logistics and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagulations of light, secret tunnels, surprises.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone

Graham Hancock
Though [Marco] Polo himself states frankly that he has never visited Japan -- and thus that what he has to say about it is second-hand and perhaps inaccurate -- the notion of the mysterious island kingdom of Cipango that he planted in European consciousness at the end of the thirteenth century was later one of several powerful influences that spurred Christopher Columbus forward in his crossings of the Atlantic at the end of the fifteenth century. This was so because Columbus -- underestimating ...more
Graham Hancock, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

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