it’s easy to take maps for granted. And yet, Simon Garfield points out in “On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks,” they come with their own history, their own ...

As Simon Garfield explains in On the Map, his rollick through the history of western map-making, the Vinland map indicated not only that there was "European knowledge of Norse sailings to North ...

But according to Simon Garfield's delightfully meandering new book, On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks, this is nothing new. Maps, Garfield proposes, are once ...

This melancholy saga does not, however, make it into Simon Garfield’s highly entertaining ... (who first put the word “America” on a map, though in the middle of Uruguay).

it's worth remembering that the mapping of the world was once a great humanist grail — and no one took a good map for granted. So Simon Garfield reminds us in his diligent if somewhat dallying ...

Simon Garfield pays dutiful respect to our brave ... really in the nineteen preceding chapters devoted to the history of maps and their makers. That history is a long, long one.

If anyone has taken anything positive from the recent Apple Maps disaster, it’s Simon Garfield. After all, what better way to thrust cartography (to which his new book is a love letter ...

Why so many of us have a moony romance with maps is a question addressed by noted British non-fiction writer Simon Garfield in On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks.

Simon Garfield discusses the mistakes and deceptions in some of our best-loved maps. 'How boring would the world be,' he asks, 'if we knew precisely where everything was?'. Show more "How boring ...

Taking in mapping from Eratosthenes in 276 BC to Facebook users in 2010, Simon Garfield’s fascinating ... and the wealthiest and most loathed map dealer in the world, Graham Arader III, who ...

British author and journalist Simon Garfield’s lively if uneven survey, On the Map, begins in Egypt, with a history of the incunabular maps of Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy, before moving ...