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Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps Continue

Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention.
You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.

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  • You Are Here

    Popular cosmology as therapy seems to be becoming a small tradition. Potter, a former publisher, claims at the outset: "We do not like to think about the universe because we fear the immensity that is everything." Bravely, he will think about it anyw ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • The armchair guide to the galaxy

    Comments ( 0) Add to My Stories Temptation In Eden: Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve (1526). What's the big idea? As big as ideas get - Potter sets out to explain the universe from conception to final demise, and from quarks to galaxies. What's new? It's ... (read full critics)

    dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

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  • Paperback 192 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1568984308
  • ISBN-13: 9781568984308
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • Pub date: Oct 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1613 mm x 1161 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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