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008			120608s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781592407798 :
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100	1		_aGarfield, Simon.
245	1	0	_aOn the map : _ba mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks / _cSimon Garfield.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bGotham Books, _cc2013.
300			_a464 p. : _bill., maps (some col.) ; _c22 cm.
500			_aCol. maps on lining papers.
520			_aExamines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 446-448) and index.
505	0	0	_tFor the love of maps : foreword / _rby Dava Sobel -- _tIntroduction : the map that wrote itself -- _tWhat great minds knew -- _tThe men who sold the world -- _tThe world takes shape -- _tVenice, China and a trip to the moon -- _tThe mystery of Vinland -- _tWelcome to Amerigo -- _tWhat's the good of Mercator? -- _tThe world in a book -- _tMapping a cittee (without forder troble) -- _tSix increasingly coordinated tales of the Ordnance Survey -- _tThe legendary mountains of Kong -- _tThe opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan -- _tCholera and the map that stopped it -- _t"X" marks the spot : Treasure island -- _tThe worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped -- _tMaps in all our hands : a brief history of the guidebook -- _tCasablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives -- _tHow to make a very big globe -- _tThe biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief -- _tDriving into lakes : how GPS put the world in a box -- _tPass go and proceed directly to Skyrim -- _tMapping the brain -- _tEpilogue : the instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere.
650		0	_aCartography _xHistory.
650		0	_aCartography _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMaps _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMap reading.
650		0	_aMaps _vMiscellanea.
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