Offering a unique view of humankind’s dreams, hopes, and wanderings, this carefully curated collection includes detailed text that places each of the maps in historical context. Chapters look at topics such as the infancy of cartography (including an ancient clay map from 600 BCE), cartographic breakthroughs from the introduction of latitude and longitude in Ptolemy’s Geography to modern satellite maps that measure the scope of natural disasters, the Age of Exploration, maps of military conquest or territorial annexation, controversial maps, and maps of the imagination, like Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
