300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world,
exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves.
Map, Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating
maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the
twenty-fist century. The book's unique arrangement, with the maps
organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history
of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full
of beauty, ingenuity and innovation.
Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and
collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as
to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to
establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns
or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in
cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine Maury
and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around
the world, rarely seen maps from lesser known cartographers, and maps of
outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current
generation of map makers.
Advisory panel: Lauren Beck, Daniel Crouch, Catherine Dunlop, Daniel
Huffman, Kimberly Kowal, P.J. Mode, Peter Nekola, Richard Pflederer,
Dennis P. Reinhartz, David Rumsey, Susan Schulten, Patricia Seed and
Ruth Watson
Additional texts: Mirela Altic, Lauren Beck, John Blake, David
Bower, David Buissert, Kris Butler, Mario Cams, John Cloud, Peter
Collier, Tim Cooke, Daniel Crouch, Kenneth Field, John Hessler, Jason
Hubbard, Daniel Huffman, Laura Beltz Imaoka, Carla Lois, Gregory
McIntosh, David B Miller, Rebecca Morrill, Toby Musrave, Peter Nekola,
Thomas O'Loughlin, Richard Pflederer, Alex Rayner, Dennis P. Reinhartz,
Patricia Seed, Susan Schulten and Ruth Watson
