On the Map

Resumen del libro

From Mappa Mundi to Google Maps - the bestselling Just My Type author turns his gaze to maps. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Simon Garfield x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1960) es autor de más de una docena de exitosos libros de no ficción, entre ellos los best sellers internacionales x{0026}lt;I Es mi tipo. Un libro sobre fuentes tipográficasx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2011), x{0026}lt;I En el mapa. De cómo el mundo adquirió su aspectox{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2013) y x{0026}lt;I Postdata. Curiosa historia de la correspondenciax{0026}lt;/I , y editor de una trilogía de diarios del Mass Observation Archive -x{0026}lt;I Our Hidden Lives, We are at War x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Private Battlesx{0026}lt;/I -, que proporcionan información única sobre la II Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas. Por su estudio sobre el sida en Gran Bretaña, x{0026}lt;I The End of Innocencex{0026}lt;/I , obtuvo el premio Somerset Maugham. Vive entre Londres y St. Ives, Cornualles.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P www.simongarfield.comx{0026}lt;/P