Cartography

Beyond the Map

Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias

Alastair Bonnett

“From the concept of guerrilla gardening in concrete jungles, trap streets on many maps, and the coastal tsunami stones planted decades or centuries ago in Japan . . . Bonnett fascinates with an exploration of the world beyond the map. Readers will want to take their time with each chapter, to peruse every new and often thought-provoking idea. Bonnett’s exploration of areas unmarked on any map will delight fans of geography and cartography.” —Library Journal

2018 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 169 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-51384-3 $25.00

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Maps of Paradise

Alessandro Scafi

“A highly readable yet deeply learned journey into how ‘humankind has yearned for a timeless elsewhere’, searching for ‘perfect bliss, remote either in time or in space.’”—History Today

“Enough verve for a wider audience yet enough scholarship for students and academics. . . . The result is a visually impressive and thought-provoking study showing how people perceived, situated, and mapped Eden over time.” —Historical Geography

2013 176 p. 81/4 x 101/2 100 color plates 170 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08261-5 $40.00

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Cartography in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Mark Monmonier

“Mapmaking may now be a more popular activity than in any other time in history—every time a person looks for directions online, a new, customized map is born. . . . [This volume] traces the incredible advances in the last century that made possible the map-obsessed world of today.” —Atlas Obscura

2015 1960 p. 81/2 x 11 Set of 2 volumes, 805 color plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables 172 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53469-5 $500.00

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Mapping the Middle East

Zayde Antrim

“In this analysis of a millennium of cartography of the ever-changing region, Antrim provides welcome insights into the evolving function and meaning of its maps. This detailed and lavishly illustrated volume spans the ‘realm of Islam’ (eleventh to sixteenth centuries), where maps served more as memory aids than accurate geographical representation. . . . Academic yet highly readable, this book presents the history behind the maps.” —AramcoWorld

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 336 p. 71/2 x 93/4 80 color plates, 6 halftones 173 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-850-0 $57.00

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Trading Territories

Mapping the Early Modern World

Jerry Brotton

“Brotton’s Trading Territories is a history not just of how the first truly global maps were made, but how they were conceptualized, and how they shaped as well as described the early modern world. . . . Trading Territories covers a wide sweep of shifting territory with verve and authority.”—Geographical Magazine

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 208 p. 5 x 73/4 44 halftones 174 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-929-3 $16.00

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Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library

“Cartographic Treasures is a beautifully designed exhibit catalogue containing splendid reproductions and enlightening captions, providing the reader with an understanding of the cartographic value and importance of each map and, consequently, the reasons for its designation as a ‘treasure.’”—WAML Information Bulletin

Distributed for the Newberry Library

2002 104 p. 11 x 81/2 23 color plates 57 halftones 171 Paper ISBN: 978-0-911028-71-3 $20.00

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Benjamin B. Olshin

“For a guy who claimed to spend seventeen years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly skimpy paper trail. . . . But a set of fourteen parchments, now collected and exhaustively studied for the first time, give us a raft of new stories about Polo’s journeys and something notably missing from his own account: maps.”—Smithsonian Magazine

400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power

Sylvia Sumira

“All you ever wanted to know about the history of globes and how they have been made.” —Sarah Tyacke, University of London

2014 224 p. 81/2 x 11 120 color plates 176 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13900-5 $45.00

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The Natures of Maps

Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World

Denis Wood and John Fels

“Intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous. . . . Wood and Fels let the maps make their argument, creating the reality they propose. It’s a beautiful book and one whose propositions will be the source of ideas, articles, and books for years to come.” —Cartographic Perspectives

2008 231 p. 11 x 11 179 color plates, 16 halftones 177 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-90604-1 $49.00

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The Objekt Series from Reaktion Books Railway

George Revill

“Revill deftly produces a remarkable cultural tapestry of the railroad, one with many nuanced strands of insight. . . . A precious, memorable contribution to those interested in railroads and in the rail foundations of modern society.” —Technology and Culture

2012 288 p. 6 x 82/5 70 color plates, 30 halftones 178 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-874-6 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Motorcycle

Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss

“The most extensive, perceptive, and rewarding inquiry yet into the role of the motorcycle and our fascination with it.” —Ed Youngblood, editor of Motohistory

2008 224 p. 6 x 82/5 30 color plates, 70 halftones 179 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-345-1 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00

Ship

Gregory Votolato

“A fascinating, wide-ranging study on maritime shipping. . . . Anyone interested in the design, construction, and operation of ships and their role in human history will find his book a delight.”—Arthur Donovan, US Merchant Marine Academy