Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author
of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship
between man and map.
Simon Garfield’s Just My Type
illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a
stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield
takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human
hearts: maps.
Imagine a world
without maps. How would we travel? Could we own land? What
would men and women argue about in cars? Scientists have
even suggested that mapping—not language—is what elevated
our prehistoric ancestors from ape-dom. Follow the history
of maps from the early explorers’ maps and the awe-inspiring
medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the satellite
renderings on our smartphones, Garfield explores the unique
way that maps relate and realign our history—and reflect the
best and worst of what makes us human.
Featuring a foreword by Dava Sobel and
packed with fascinating tales of cartographic intrigue,
outsize personalities, and amusing “pocket maps” on an array
of subjects from how to fold a map to the strangest maps on
the Internet, On the Map is a rich historical
tapestry infused with Garfield’s signature narrative flair.
Map-obsessives and everyone who loved Just My Type
will be lining up to join Garfield on his audacious
journey through time and around the globe.
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