Map: Exploring The World: 0000

I simple can't understand why anyone would give this book anything other than the full five stars. I don't know what else people were expecting from this book.The book IS wonderful! Fabulous high quality illustrations from an eclectic mix of sources spread over a millennium of the history of cartography. Phaidon rarely fails to impress me, each image has a short deccription of the map and is clearly titled so if you wanted to know more about the map in question you can search it online an find similar examples and more in depth information. This book is about the images not the writing.This is not a book for academic reasearch but is a great book for an academics coffee table.Personally I am using this book for inspiration for my artistic practice and it is rammed full of ideas on mark making and design.Highly recommended.

A beautiful collection of remarkable maps showing how mankind searchs to bring order and to understand their world and environment. The maps range from the whimsical: ‘A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States of America’ from 1939 to the beautiful pictographic ‘Chukchi Sealskin Map c 1870 and the 19th c Hindu map of ‘Asterisms’. This is a spectacular book and like the ’Plants’ book from Phaidon you long to have giant copies to be able to enjoy all the detail.

I have never realized what maps can tell us, what kinds of maps there are. The text is interesting and not long. God choice!

The book was bought as a present and was very well received. The plates are good quality and the concise description is informative without being too long in detail

A fascinating book. Brilliant photographs and very interesting text.Love it !

The layout is disappointing

Fantastic range of maps from ancient to modern day. I compared this with a few other map complilation books and this one has the nicest balance of different kinds.

Lovely book, bought as a gift which was very much appreciated.

The book was probably perfect before shipping. Packaging without any protection. The book is amazing and very interesting for a map lover like me

you can flip around and through the book and read about various maps.

Nichts auszusetzen, wie beschrieben mit einer Vielzahl von interessanten Karten für die es Interessiert

At the offer price of $35 for 300 pages of maps, this is stunning value. That’s 10c per map, which take you on a whirlwind journey of history, culture, celebrity, geopolitics, tragedy, injustice, and humour.Whether or not you’re interested in maps specifically, this book lets you dip into three hundred different perspectives of earth and the cosmos, in a high quality tactile experience. A real treat.

Un vrai régal pour qui comme moi adore les cartes avec une loupe pour voir les détailsOn ne voit pas passer le temps😊