Brotton, Jerry, author.

Talking maps / Jerry Brotton, Nick Millea ; with a contribution by Benjamin Hennig.

Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2019.
©2019

205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 x 28 cm

"Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, 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, al-Sharif al-Idrisi's twelfth-century world map, C.S. Lewis's map of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's cosmology of Middle-Earth and Grayson Perry's twenty-first-century tapestry map, this fascinating book analyses 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, even empires; as images of environmental change; and as digitized visions of the global future."--Provided by publisher

9781851245154 hardcover
1851245154 hardcover

Map drawing History Exhibitions.
Cartography History Exhibitions.
Cartographie Histoire Expositions.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Cartography.
Cartography.
Map drawing.
Karte
Kartografie
Cartographie Histoire.
Cartes Lecture.
Popular Science and Mathematics.

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Millea, Nick, author.
Hennig, Benjamin, contributor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 307186
Cote: BIB 252679
Statut: Disponible