Table of Contents

	For the Love of Maps: Foreword	p. 11
	Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself	p. 15
	How the ancient Greeks-Eratosthenes and Ptolemy-first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it.
	The day Britain's greatest cartographic treasure-the medieval Mappa Mundi-went to the auction houses to fix a leaky roof.
	It's 1250, Do You Know Where You Are?	p. 58
	The Mystery of Vinland	p. 87
	Welcome to Amerigo	p. 103
	Keeping It Quiet: Drake's Silver Voyage	p. 135
	What Great Minds Knew	p. 21
	Did Norse sailors really reach and map America before Columbus?
	The Men Who Sold the World	p. 42
	The World Takes Shape	p. 63
	How the Italians became the world's greatest mapmakers, 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 world centers on Jerusalem-and the Poles appear.
	What's the Good of Mercator?	p. 125
	Here Be Dragons	p. 72
	Or is the world's most curious map fakery's finest hour?
	California as an Island	p. 121
	Venice, China and a Trip to the Moon	p. 75
	In which Ptolemy reappears in Europe and America gets named after the wrong man.
	How the world looked in 1569-and today, even if the UN still favors the Postel Azimuthal Equidistant.
	The World in a Book	p. 140
	In which the Atlas becomes a craze in seventeenth-century Holland, is adopted by The Times, and then turns to agitprop.
	Lions, Eagles and Gerrymanders	p. 160
	Mapping a Cittee (without forder troble)	p. 167
	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	p. 181
	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	p. 200
	The Legendary Mountains of Kong	p. 204
	How an impassable mountain range spread and spread, until a French army officer found it wasn't there.
	The Low-down Lying Case of Benjamin Morrell	p. 220
	The Opening of America and the Gridding of Manhattan	p. 223
	How Lewis and Clark filled out the American canvas, and how New York plotted its future.
	Cholera and the Map that Stopped It	p. 235
	How mapping played its part in identifying the cause of the disease.
	Across Australia with Burke and Wills	p. 246
	"X" Marks the Spot: Treasure Island	p. 252
	Treasure maps in literature and life.
	J.M. Barrie Fails to Fold a Pocket Map	p. 267
	The Worst Journey in the World to the Last Place to Be Mapped	p. 269
	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	p. 288
	Maps in All Our Hands: A Brief History of the Guidebook	p. 293
	The majestic foldout engravings of Murray and Baedeker give way to another cartographic dark age.
	The Biggest Map of All: Beck's London Tube	p. 307
	Casablanca, Harry Potter and Where Jennifer Aniston Lives	p. 313
	In which the Muppets perfect travel by map and we stalk the stars.
	A Hare-raising Masquerade	p. 324
	How to Make a Very Big Globe	p. 327
	From scratch ... when you used to run a bowling alley.
	Churchill's Map Room	p. 347
	The Biggest Map Dealer, the Biggest Map Thief	p. 352
	How tempting are maps-and just what kind of dealers and thieves do they attract?
	Women Can't Read Maps. Oh, Really?	p. 366
	Driving into Lakes: How GPS Put the World in a Box	p. 372
	How we learned to watch the dullest in-flight movie ever-and, with GPS, the Dutch once again took over the world's mapping.
	The Canals of Mars	p. 385
	Pass Go and Proceed Directly to Skyrim	p. 394
	Maps as games, from jigsaw puzzles to Risk, and why computer games may be the future of cartography.
	Mapping the Brain	p. 410
	What taxi drivers have to offer the world of the neuroscientist.
	Epilogue: The Instant, Always-On, Me-Mapping of Everywhere	p. 424
	How the Internet changed everything.
	Index	p. 450
	Picture Credits	p. 449
	Acknowledgments	p. 444
	Bibliography	p. 446