Book ID: CBB962405107

Talking Maps (2019)

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Brotton, Jerry (Author)
Millea, Nick (Author)


Bodleian Library


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 208
Language: English

Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travelers, explorers, and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people’s lives and surroundings, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by writers and artists. In turn, maps generate more stories, taking users on new journeys in search of knowledge and adventure. Drawing on the Bodleian Library’s outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, Talking Maps takes a new approach to map-making by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately entwined. Including such rare treasures as a unique map of the Mediterranean from the eleventh-century Arabic Book of Curiosities, a twelfth-century map of the world by al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī, and C. S. Lewis’s map of Narnia, this fascinating book analyzes maps as objects that enable us to cross sea and land; as windows into alternative and imaginary worlds; as guides to reaching the afterlife; as tools to manage cities, nations, and empires; as images of environmental change; and as digitized visions of the global future. By telling the stories behind the artifacts and those generated by them, Talking Maps reveals how each map is not just a tool for navigation but also a worldly proposal that helps us to understand who we are by describing where we are.

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Review Mordechay Lewy (2020) Review of "Talking Maps". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 202-203). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Rosenbaum, Julia B.
Nanda, Vivek
Capello, Ernesto
Ben-Bassat, Yuval
Gregory March
Concepts
Maps; atlases
Collections
Cartography
Science and culture
Visual representation; visual communication
Science, general histories
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
15th century
Places
United States
Arabian peninsula
Polynesia
Norfolk (England)
Americas
Netherlands
Institutions
Leventhal Map and Education Center
Bodleian Library
London Missionary Society
Boston Public Library
British Library
Yale University
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