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On the Map af simon garfield
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On the Map (original 2012; udgave 2012)

af simon garfield

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Examines 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.
Medlem:brafter
Titel:On the Map
Forfattere:simon garfield
Info:Profile Books Ltd, Hardcover
Samlinger:Dit bibliotek
Vurdering:**1/2
Nøgleord:30/06/13

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On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does af Simon Garfield (2012)

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    A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books af Nicholas A. Basbanes (waitingtoderail)
    waitingtoderail: Does for book collecting what this book does for map collecting.
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    Map Of A Nation: A Biography Of The Ordnance Survey af Rachel Hewitt (John_Vaughan)
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    The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology af Simon Winchester (John_Vaughan)
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    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World af Steven Johnson (John_Vaughan)
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    A Little Book of Language af David Crystal (elenchus)
    elenchus: Garfield's On the Map and Crystal's A Little Book of Language share a similar approach to different subjects: each provides many short chapters on separate individual topics as means of surveying their field, history of cartography in the case of Garfield and the broad field of linguistics for Crystal. Each chapter is 4-5 pages, accompanied or separated by sidebars on related questions or facts. I enjoyed them both as galleries providing an overview and appetizer for further reading.… (mere)
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    London Under af Peter Ackroyd (John_Vaughan)
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    Mapping for money : maps, plans and topographic paintings and their role in Dutch overseas expansion during the 16th and af Kees Zandvliet (marieke54)
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    Never Eat Shredded Wheat: The Geography We've Lost and How to Find it Again af Christopher Somerville (John_Vaughan)
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    Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks af Ken Jennings (John_Vaughan)
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    The Library at Night af Alberto Manguel (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: Does for the phenomenon of libraries what Garfield does for maps
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 Maps and Atlases: On the Map2 ulæste / 2stellarexplorer, februar 2013

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Miscellaneous short articles about everything cartographic - historical and factual information but also more offbeat, quirky offerings. Enjoyable in a bubble-gum type of way but not greatly stimulating. ( )
  DramMan | Oct 3, 2023 |
Very enjoyable, but I got this book free from the Folio Society and the images are black and white and softly printed. For a book on maps, I recommend finding a copy with sharp color pix if possible. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Fun book on all kinds of maps and their history. From Ptolemy and before up to Google, etc. Very worthwhile if you like maps. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
Very interesting and an easy , engaging read. Not a comprehensive history of mapping but rather a look at significant landmarks and unique maps. Not a study textbook on the subject by any means, but nonetheless a good dip into the subject. ( )
  solexine | Oct 21, 2022 |
A chronological, anecdotal history of cartography. Well researched and well presented. Not comprehensive but in bite sized, easily digestible chunks. Enjoyable. ( )
  Steve38 | Apr 18, 2022 |
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Het interessante van wereldkaarten is dat je altijd kunt zien uit welk deel van de wereld ze afkomstig zijn. Is de wereldkaart van Europese makelij, dan ligt Europa netjes in het midden. Amerika is het Verre Westen, China het Verre Oosten. Op Chinese wereldkaarten is China letterlijk het Rijk van het Midden en Amerika de Oriënt. Europa is een marginaal gebied aan de westrand. De oudste kaart van Chinese makelij dateert uit de 12de eeuw en heet toepasselijk 'De kaart van China en barbaarse landen'.

Wereldkaarten zijn ook politieke statements. Over het feit dat de aarde een bol is, bestaat tegenwoordig enige consensus. Echter: als je van een bol een platte kaart wilt maken, moet je met landoppervlakten gaan sjoemelen. De wereldkaart waarmee inwoners van westerse landen opgroeien, is gebaseerd op de klassieke projectie van Gerardus Mercator uit 1569.
tilføjet af WiJiWiJi | RedigerDe Volkskrant, Olaf Tempelman (Aug 18, 2013)
 
Mr. Garfield does not pretend to be a serious historian. (Neither did Ken Jennings, whose 2011 "Maphead" covered some of the same terrain.) His gift is for cherry-picking factoids, and his latest book, "On the Map," is full of little conversation pieces. But this book is diminished by the way it has been produced, with an alluringly tinted antique map of Africa on its cover and nothing but smudgy gray illustrations inside.
tilføjet af lorax | RedigerNew York Times, Janet Maslin (Dec 18, 2012)
 
There is a great deal that is good and charming and fun about this book. But overall, Garfield seems like that most frustrated of soldiers, the general who has to deal in the field with a battle to be fought at that nightmare spot right in the middle of a swamp of information irrelevant to his needs, and where no soldier ever wants to be: He is floundering in a sea of facts, lost at the join of four maps.
 

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