Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. Imagine a world without maps....(展开全部)

西蒙·加菲尔德（Simon Garfield），英国记者与非小说作家。他是多家报刊的职业供稿人，包括包括《独立报》《周日独立报》《观察家报》等。之前曾出版《字体故事》（Just My Type），颇受中外读者好评。 译者 段铁铮，毕业于英国赫特福德大学哲学系、伦敦经济学院哲学系现供职于中国社会科学院新闻与传播研究所，电脑爱好者翻译爱好者，已为东西文库译有多部图书。

From Mappa Mundi to Myst - the bestselling "Just My Type" author turns his gaze to maps. Maps have the most amazing stories - and Simon Garfield is the perfect author to tell them. This is a book that will inspire mapophiles but engage even those of us who stare blankly at an OS pathfinder's hieroglyphs. Just as Garfield found the magic in fonts, here he creates compelling narr...(展开全部)

东尼·博赞（TONYBUZAN），1942年生于伦敦，1964年毕业于英属哥伦比亚大学，获得心理学、英语语言学、数学和普通科学等多个学位。 大脑和学习方面的世界超级作家，出版了80多部专著或合著，系列书销售量已达到1000万册。 全球的公众媒体人物，在英国和国际电视台出现的累计时间超过1000个小时。拥有超过3亿的观众和听众。 大脑和学习方面的世界顶尖演讲家。被称为“智力魔法师”、“世界大脑先生”。世界记忆力锦标赛的创始人，世界快速阅读锦标赛的创始人，脑力奥林匹克运动会的创始人。

Much more than a history atlas, this book drops you right in the heart of the action, as 130 detailed maps tell the story of pivotal episodes in world history, from the first human migrations out of Africa to the race for space. After the foreword written by renowned broadcaster and historian Peter Snow, purpose-made regional and global maps present the history of the world as ...(展开全部)

Maps help us understand and navigate the world. For centuries, maps have become better, more refined, and more precise—there are no blind spots anymore. While Google Maps and GPS systems have become our tools of choice for navigation, contemporary maps have evolved into platforms for cutting-edge illustration, experimental data visualization, and personal visual storytelling. A...(展开全部)

At the start of the 19th century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist's materials, an assistant and a gun. Driving him through terrible storms, encounters with ferocious bears and dangerous people, Audubon's all-consuming passion for birds came to define his entire life--but what would the world make of his ex...(展开全部)

亚德哈罗南德·芬恩（Adharanand Finn） 英国作家、《卫报》编辑，自小热爱跑步运动，并在跑步之余探寻世界各地的跑步文化。 凭借代表作《跑出肯尼亚》获英国体育类图书奖新秀作家称号，该书还被《星期日泰晤士报》评为年度体育类好书，并入围威廉·希尔体育类图书奖决选名单。 此外，芬恩还为英国的《跑步者世界》《独立报》等媒体撰写专栏。

作者 菲利普•鲍尔：科普作家，毕业于牛津大学化学专业，并取得了布里斯托大学物理学博士学位，现定居伦敦。习作常见于《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《纽约时报》（New York Times）、《卫报》（the Guardian）和《新政治家》（New Statesman）。身为英国皇家化学学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）的一员, 菲利普也供职于《化学世界》（Chemistry World）编辑委员会。菲利普撰写了多部脍炙人口的科普读物，并曾在2005喜获该年度的安万特科学奖。 译者 李祖凰：一只献身科普的小白兔，喜欢借阅读拓展视野，更常出没与山野间体味自然的美丽。4年21世纪前沿学科生命科学的浸染外加3年爬雪山过矿井的区系研究磨砺，毕业后却摇身一变任职BBC Knowledge 中国版《...(展开全部)