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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,452 ratings — published 2012
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,248 ratings — published 2011
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,198 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,204 ratings — published 1991
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,409 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,805 ratings — published 2012
The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,403 ratings — published 2016
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,849 ratings — published 2000
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,430 ratings — published 2015
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,490 ratings — published 1995
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 427 ratings — published 1981
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,892 ratings — published 2009
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.02 — 420 ratings — published 2009
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.63 — 81,369 ratings — published 2022
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 983 ratings — published 2018
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 939 ratings — published 2004
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 405 ratings — published 2009
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 32,267 ratings — published 2010
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.05 — 135 ratings — published 2007
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,753 ratings — published 2009
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 506 ratings — published 2014
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 327 ratings — published 2010
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,371 ratings — published 2009
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,748 ratings — published 2006
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,786 ratings — published 2014
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 868 ratings — published 2003
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.39 — 148 ratings — published
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,160 ratings — published 2014
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.97 — 86 ratings — published 2008
The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 69 ratings — published 2001
Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.37 — 63 ratings — published 1972
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.19 — 560 ratings — published 2021
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.79 — 845 ratings — published 2015
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.61 — 309 ratings — published 2002
The Power of Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.48 — 118 ratings — published 1992
The Map Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.10 — 147 ratings — published 2005
Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.54 — 37 ratings — published 1997
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.78 — 63 ratings — published 2005
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 320 ratings — published 2017
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 660 ratings — published 2013
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,270 ratings — published 2010
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,255 ratings — published 2025
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 383 ratings — published 2017
Great City Maps: A Historical Journey Through Maps, Plans, and Paintings (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 208 ratings — published 2016
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.16 — 323 ratings — published 2015
The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,849 ratings — published 1981
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,967 ratings — published 2019
Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.06 — 137 ratings — published 2005
Elements of Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.71 — 51 ratings — published 1969
Semiology of graphics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.32 — 158 ratings — published 1967
“I think our maps contributed to a revolution in geological thinking, which is some ways compares to the Copernican revolution. Scientists and the general public got their first relatively realistic image of a vast part of the planet that they could never see. The maps received wide coverage and were widely circulated. They brought the theory of continental drift within the realm of rational speculation. You could see the worldwide mid-ocean ridge and you could see that it coincided with earthquakes. The borders of the plates took shape, leading rapidly to the more comprehensive theory of plate tectonics.”
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“It was a shack, somewhere out on the outskirts of the Plains town of Scrote. Scrote had a lot of outskirts, spread so widely-a busted cart here, a dead dog there-that often people went through it without even knowing it was there, and really it only appeared on the maps because cartographers get embarrassed about big empty spaces.”
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