The book ‘MAP. Exploring the world’ fearures 300 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves.
Selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics, map dealers and collectors, the maps represent over 5,000 years of cartographic innovation drawing on a range of cultures and traditions. Comprehensive in scope, ‘MAP. Exploring the world’ features all types of map from navigation and surveys to astronomical maps, satellite and digital maps, as well as works of art inspired by cartography.
Features some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, including Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth.
