{"product_id":"talking-maps-by-jerry-brotton-9781851245154","title":"Talking Maps","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, \u003cem\u003eTalking Maps\u003c\/em\u003e 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 digitised visions of the global future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy telling the stories behind the artefacts and those generated by them, \u003cem\u003eTalking Maps\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849980203244,"sku":"9781851245154","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3007413482847.jpg?v=1759071216","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/talking-maps-by-jerry-brotton-9781851245154","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}