Description
Explore the captivating world of storytelling through cartography with 'Talking Maps.' This beautifully crafted book delves into the profound relationship between maps and narratives, illustrating how they provide insight into historical journeys and imaginative realms. Perfect for travelers, history enthusiasts, and lovers of literature, 'Talking Maps' features rare artifacts from the Bodleian Library's extensive collection, highlighting pieces like an eleventh-century Arabic map and fantastical interpretations by authors such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Discover how these unique maps serve not just as navigation tools but as dynamic expressions of cultural identity and change over nearly a thousand years.
With 'Talking Maps,' readers embark on a journey exploring the evolution of cartography, understanding how maps influence our perception of the world and ourselves. From guiding explorers to depicting alternative realities and environmental changes, each page unveils stories that connect us to the past and the future.
Whether as a thoughtful gift or a cherished addition to your collection, 'Talking Maps' is a must-have for anyone intrigued by the interplay of geography and storytelling.
**Delivery Information:** Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW, ISBN: 9781851245154, Format: Sewn, Year: 2019, Publisher: Bodleian Library Publishing.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781851245154
Format: Sewn
Year: 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library Publishing
Description:
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.
With 'Talking Maps,' readers embark on a journey exploring the evolution of cartography, understanding how maps influence our perception of the world and ourselves. From guiding explorers to depicting alternative realities and environmental changes, each page unveils stories that connect us to the past and the future.
Whether as a thoughtful gift or a cherished addition to your collection, 'Talking Maps' is a must-have for anyone intrigued by the interplay of geography and storytelling.
**Delivery Information:** Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW, ISBN: 9781851245154, Format: Sewn, Year: 2019, Publisher: Bodleian Library Publishing.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781851245154
Format: Sewn
Year: 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library Publishing
Description:
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.