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Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps.This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.



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Betsy Mason

Betsy Mason is a science journalist who covers a variety of scientific fields including earth science and animal behavior, as well as cartography and maps. She is a co-author with Greg Miller of National Geographic's cartography blog, All Over the Map (natgeo.com/alloverthemap) . Previously Betsy was the online science editor for Wired magazine where she built an award-winning science section and founded the Wired Science Blogs network. Before that, she was the science and national laboratories reporter for the Contra Costa Times newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area where she won the David Perlman award from the American Geophysical Union for her coverage of earthquake risk. Betsy was a 2015-2016 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Before becoming a journalist, she earned a master's degree in geology from Stanford University and completed the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program.



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