- Forword: For the Love of Maps Dava Sobel
- Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself
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- What Great Minds Knew: How the ancient Greeks – Erastothenes and Ptolomy – first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it
- The Men Who Sold the World: The day Britain’s greatest cartographic treasure – the medieval Mappa Mendi – went to the auction houses to fix a leaky roof
- It’s 1250, Do You Know Where You Are?
- The World takes Shape: The world centres on Jerusalem – and the Poles appear.
- Here be Dragons
- Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon: How the Italians became the world’s greatest map makers, and then the Germans, and then the Dutch. And how a Venetian friar discovered the secrets of the East and ended up on the Moon.
- The Mystery of Vinland: Did Norse sailors really reach and map American before Columbus? Or is the world’s most curious map fakery’s finest hour?
- Welcome to Amerigo: In which Ptolomy reappears in Europe and America gets named after the wrong man.
- California as an Island
- What’s the Good of Mercator?: How the world looked in 1569 – and today, even if the UN still favours the Postel Azimuthal Equidistant
- Keeping it Quiet: Drake’s Silver Voyage
- The World in a Book: In which the Atlas becomes a craze in seventeenth-century Holland, is adopted by The Times, and then turns to agit-prop
- Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders
- Mapping a Cittee (without forder trouble): London gets the map bug, too, pioneers street mapping, and John Ogilby charts the course of every major road in Britannia.
- Six Increasingly Coordinated Tales of the Ordnance Survey: Britain, spurred by Jacobite revolt, makes the Ordnance Survey, extending to India. But what is the symbol for a picnic site?
- A Nineteenth-century Murder Map
- The Legendary Mountains of Kong: How an impassable mountain range spread and spread, until a French army officer found it wasn’t there.
- The Lowdown Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell
- Cholera and the Map that Stopped It: How mapping played its part in identifying the cause of the disease.
- Across Australia with Burke and Wills
- X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island: Treasure maps in literature and life
- The Worst Journey in the World to be the Last Place to be Mapped: How explorers found the South Pole without a map, and named the region after their families, friends and enemies.
- Charles Booth Thinks You’re Vicious
- Mrs P and the A-Z: The woman who reputedly walked 23,000 London Streets may have walked considerably less.
- The Biggest Map of All: Beck’s London Tube
- Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook: The majestic fold-out engravings of Murray and Baedecker give way to another cartographic dark age.
- J. M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map
- Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives: In which the Muppets perfect travel by map and we stalk the stars.
- A Hareraising Masquerade
- How to Make a Very Big Globe: From scratch … when you used to run a bowling alley.
- Churchill’s Map Room
- The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief: How tempting are maps – and just what kind of dealers and thieves do they attract?
- Women Can’t Read Maps. Oh, Really?
- Driving Into Lakes: How Sat Nav Put the World In a Box: How we learnt to watch the dullest flight movie ever – and, with GPS, the Dutch once again took over the world’s mapping.
- The Canals of Mars
- Pass Go and Proceed Direct to Skyrim: Maps as games, from jigsaw puzzles to Risk, and why computers games may be the future of cartography.
- Mapping the Brain: What taxi drivers have to offer the world of the neuroscientist.
- Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere: How the Internet changed everything.
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