~Herman Melville, Moby Dick
To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover. ~Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces
Maps! We look at a globe or world map and take the borders and dimensions for granted, when in reality the dimensions are not always accurate and every border has a history. In this digital age, when we are more likely to do a search for an address on Mapquest or use an app on our phone to find our location, occasions to read an actual map are becoming scarcer. But map-reading, like letter-writing, is a skill we would be loath to see die out completely. Here are some books about maps and infographics to whet your appetite for geography. and perhaps improve your cartographic skills.
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography by Ken Jennings
Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking by Jill K. Berry
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield
Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were by Donald S. Johnson
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities by Frank Jacobs
In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir by Christopher Norment [eBook]
Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel
The Infographic History of the World by Valentina D'Efilippo and James Ball
Links
Map Reading Basics
Bad at Reading Maps? Maybe Your Brain Just Needs Better Maps
The Peters Projection World Map
Daily Infographic
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