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Talking Maps (Hardcover, Edition, Published UK July 2019 ed.)
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Talking Maps (Hardcover, Edition, Published UK July 2019 ed.)
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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. By telling the stories
behind the artefacts 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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