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)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Costa Award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. 16-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy cou...(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。

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)