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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 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 — 8,217 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 3.81 — 14,146 ratings — published 2001
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,192 ratings — published 1991
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,411 ratings — published 2003
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,797 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 — 1,399 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 — 2,846 ratings — published 2000
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,553 ratings — published 1995
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 — 117,884 ratings — published 2015
The Mapmakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.86 — 425 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 4.23 — 4,870 ratings — published 2009
The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.02 — 419 ratings — published 2009
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.63 — 80,950 ratings — published 2022
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.01 — 936 ratings — published 2004
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.77 — 403 ratings — published 2009
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 32,103 ratings — published 2010
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.04 — 134 ratings — published 2007
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.22 — 977 ratings — published 2018
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,745 ratings — published 2009
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained (DK History Changers)
by (shelved 13 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.24 — 501 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 — 1,369 ratings — published 2009
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,460 ratings — published 2006
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 — 867 ratings — published 2003
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,140 ratings — published 2014
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,771 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 — 68 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
All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.39 — 148 ratings — published
Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.61 — 307 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 4.09 — 148 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
Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.18 — 554 ratings — published 2021
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.76 — 316 ratings — published 2017
An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.80 — 840 ratings — published 2015
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.40 — 653 ratings — published 2013
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,262 ratings — published 2010
Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cartography)
avg rating 3.65 — 382 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 — 13,817 ratings — published 1981
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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong [and Why It Matters] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,670 ratings — published 2025
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cartography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,943 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
“It is Professor Fuson's view that Chinese charts of Taiwan and Japan were the source of the 1424 portrayal of Antilia and Satanaze. He makes a very persuasive case that such charts are likely to have originated from the seven spectacular voyages of discovery made by the famous Ming admiral Cheng Ho between 1405 and 1433.
[...] Much suggests, however, that Robert Fuson is correct to deduce that the charts of Taiwan and Japan that somehow found their way into the hands of Zuane Pizzagano in Venice in 1424 must have originated from the voyages of Cheng Ho.
Yet there is a problem. [...] Antilia and Satanaze on the 1424 chart don't show Taiwan and Japan as they looked in the time of Cheng Ho, but rather as they looked approximately 12,500 years ago during the meltdown of the Ice Age.
Is it possible that Cheng Ho, too, like Columbus, was guided in his voyages by ancient maps and charts, come down from another time and populated by the ghosts of a drowned world?”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
[...] Much suggests, however, that Robert Fuson is correct to deduce that the charts of Taiwan and Japan that somehow found their way into the hands of Zuane Pizzagano in Venice in 1424 must have originated from the voyages of Cheng Ho.
Yet there is a problem. [...] Antilia and Satanaze on the 1424 chart don't show Taiwan and Japan as they looked in the time of Cheng Ho, but rather as they looked approximately 12,500 years ago during the meltdown of the Ice Age.
Is it possible that Cheng Ho, too, like Columbus, was guided in his voyages by ancient maps and charts, come down from another time and populated by the ghosts of a drowned world?”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“If we impose on a map of the earth a 'world grid' with Giza (not Greenwich) as its prime meridian, then hidden relationships become immediately apparent between sites that previously seemed to be on a random, unrelated longitudes. On such a grid, as we've just seen, Tiruvannamalai stands on longitude 48 degrees east, Angkor stands on longitude 72 degrees east and Sao Pa stands out like a sore thumb on longitude 90 degrees east -- all numbers that are significant in ancient myths, significant in astronomy (through the study of precession), and closely interrelated through the base-3 system.
So the 'outrageous hypothesis' which is being proposed here is that the world was mapped repeatedly over a long period at the end of the Ice Age -- to the standards of accuracy that would not again be achieved until the end of the eighteenth century. It is proposed that the same people who made the maps also established their grid materially, on the ground, by consecrating a physical network of sites around the world on longitudes that were significant to them. And it is proposed that this happened a very long time ago, before history began, but that later cultures put new monuments on top of the ancient sites which they continued to venerate as sacred, perhaps also inheriting some of the knowledge and religious ideas of the original navigators and builders.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
So the 'outrageous hypothesis' which is being proposed here is that the world was mapped repeatedly over a long period at the end of the Ice Age -- to the standards of accuracy that would not again be achieved until the end of the eighteenth century. It is proposed that the same people who made the maps also established their grid materially, on the ground, by consecrating a physical network of sites around the world on longitudes that were significant to them. And it is proposed that this happened a very long time ago, before history began, but that later cultures put new monuments on top of the ancient sites which they continued to venerate as sacred, perhaps also inheriting some of the knowledge and religious ideas of the original navigators and builders.”
― Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
