On the map: Why the World Looks the way it Does [Audiobook] download free by Simon Garfield
- Listen audiobook: On the map: Why the World Looks the way it Does
- Author: Simon Garfield
- Release date: 2013/2/2
- Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781846685101
- Rating: 9.53 of 10
- Votes: 502
- Review by: Thomas Matteson
- Review rating: 9.21 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 5H46M18S in 256 kbps (93.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPEG4, FLAC, MP4, AIFF, MP3, TTA, WMA (compression BZ, JAR, DMG, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 468
- Includes a PDF summary of 50 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 35M43S (10 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route.From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Historical Geography
- Download servers: Google Drive, BitShare, Mediafire, MEGA, FileServe, Hotfile, Waistra, Ivoox. Compressed in BZ, JAR, DMG, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.31 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x32mm
- Weight: 428g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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