Cartography

Cartography is the science of map-making.

The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps
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
A History of the World in 12 Maps
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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
The Mapmakers
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
The Cartographers
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
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
24 books — 1 voter

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
Paper Towns by John  GreenLet's Get Lost by Adi AlsaidRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchRoyally Lost by Angie StantonNo Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
Fiction with Map Covers
63 books — 32 voters

The Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisGlasgow'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 Helper
•Kenocartographobia
101 books — 2 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 evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest the existence in remote times, before the rise of any of the known cultures, of a true civilization, of a comparatively advanced sort, which either was localized in one area but had worldwide commerce, or was, in a real sense, a worldwide culture. This culture, at least in some respects, may well have been more advanced than the civilizations of Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, and Rome. In astronomy, nautical science, mapmaking and possibly ...more ”
― Charles H. Hapgood, Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age

Jarod Kintz
“ People always ask me, they say, “Jarod, what do you do with your money?” Well, I base my financial decisions on the annual migratory patterns of Bigfoot, because maps are the new charts, as taught by the esteemed Ponce de Leon School of Youth, Wealth, and Duck Farming. Next time you’re in St. Augustine, Fl, or here in The Ozarks, you should stop on by and learn to become your own cartographer. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

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