It was heavily influenced by the authors of all the books listed. Frank jacobs is the mapobsessed blogger behind strange maps. Strange harvests is an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the worlds most remote terrain in visceral and sometimes breathtaking prose. Subscribe to our strange maps newsletter map provides first glimpse of postapocalypse states across the land, statedriven pacts, partnerships, councils and task forces replace a coordinated. Blog of the nation maps are so much more than geography, theyre a time machine that show us what the world, and the people in it, looked like. You know you are reading a terrific book a history book more than 400 pages long when you cant put the book down and end up reading it in just a few days. Roadside america guide to uniquely odd tourist attractions. Here is a list of books that i found particularly influential in my intellectual development. She has been a reporter, producer, news director, live talk show host, a food and wine columnist. Nprs brings you news about books and authors along with our picks for great reads. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the national book award for fiction, and established ralph ellison as one of the key writers of the century.
I wanted to write a portrait that would recreate felixs energy and show off his depths. The parker inheritance weaves together a generationsold mystery, a modernday treasure hunt and a tender story about family and friendship. Our house, in spite of the best efforts of my young daughters, felt dismally quiet and dull. The 10 best maps from fantasy books for readers who like. Frank introduced himself and asked if i had visited his blog, strange. Israeli stores stop selling book that denounces settlers. Occasionally, while contemplating map stories for my own book, i. Fantastic maps, with a depiction of what the globe might look like if the sea and land were inverted the strange maps blog has been named by geekdad blog on. An atlas of cartographic curiosities was published by penguin in 2009.
The lede is a blog that remixes national and international news stories adding information gleaned from the web or gathered through original reporting to supplement articles in the new york times and draw readers in to the global conversation about the news taking place online. If you or someone you know likes wellresearched and engaging anecdotes about maps combined with the experience of reading such things in a book, then this ones for you. Some graphics featured on this blog are informative, some are creative, and others are completely bizarre. Frank jacobs and his strange maps public radio international. Preserved cold war nuclear defense installation, nike missile site sf88. The book compiles the blog entries with nice large photos and uncluttered text. Frank jacobs loves maps but finds most atlases too predictable. If you regularly read the strange maps blog and want to support frank jacobs with a few bucks, then this is the way to go. Here is a list of 21 maps that i found interesting. Shelf awareness fascinating financial times, books of the year that strange alchemy of words into cartography and sometimes vice versa how wonderful it is to travel within the bounds of a book daily telegraph bursting with fascinating essays and maps, this is a feast for the eyes and the mind s eye cumbria life an enchanting. Mapping weird stuff is a course offered as part of the owjl summer camp at ohio wesleyan. Many people have written to me asking what they should read to properly educate themselves. The book uses a mix of maps and scenes, segments of ordance survey type mapping in onetoone correspondence with the 3d scene they represent.
If you love maps, you have to see the strange maps blog. The map that came to life by ronald lampitt, published in the uk in the 1948. Big think edge helps individuals and organizations by catalyzing conversation on the topics most critical to success in the 21st century. The 10 best maps from fantasy books for readers who like to track heroes adventures. Fantasy books with maps i love it when an author creates a fantasy world in their book, and then is nice enough to give us a map to help navigate through the world. An atlas of cartographic curiosities features 8 of the most fascinating, absorbing and remarkable maps from. He collects and comments on all kinds of cartographic curiosa.
This book is more than 100 of those maps, reproduced in full color and with a thorough explanation by jacobs. Unusual, historical, fictional, gastronomical, delusional, exceptional, etceteral maps, with excellent accompanying posts and great comment sections as. Strange maps is a blog run by frank jacobs which, needless to say, brings together weird and wonderful cartography from around the world, from a map showing the black holes in the internet to one imagining the subterranean canals on mars, as well as this one inverting the earths land and seas jacobs started the blog because he felt that, apart from maybe some small distinctions based on. A journalist and writer, he hosts the blog strange maps. Such was the case with horwitzs engaging history of early american explorers, a voyage long and strange. Cosmos and culture as a place where scientists could talk about science as a force in everyday life, informing questions of religion and spirituality, human identity, and human beings relationships to each other and the natural world. Strange maps started as a blog of the same name still going, as it turns out where jacobs essentially posted any map that drew his attention and was out of the ordinary. Atlas obscura and all things considered have joined forces this summer for an epic road trip up americas pacific coast.
However, if youre like i am, and like to look things up on. The book of strange new things is about peter leigh, former drunk, junkie, petty thief and allaround class act who finds jesus one night thanks to two broken ankles and the ministrations of a. October 19, 2019 martin, whos working on the longawaited sixth volume of his series a song of ice and fire, rarely gives interviews but nprs scott simon recently caught up with him onstage at an awards ceremony. Its the largest map collection in the world five and a half million maps live here, and hessler is one of the mapkeepers. Jf ptak science books quick post interactive map on global warming opinions. The book of strange new things treads familiar territory michel fabers bestseller, the crimson petal and the white, captured the feel of victorian london. Over at the terrific blog strange maps, frank jacobs recently pointed out some weird american exclaves. Jacobs is at the map fair to talk about his obsession. Owjl ohio wesleyan university junior league of columbus is a residential summer camp program of challenge and enrichment for central ohios gifted and talented middle school students currently in grades 68. Thank you to everyone at npr who helped ensure the map was always uptodate, who spoke highly of the map, and who helped distribute it through the npr shop. I started writing it shortly after my son felix, then ten years old, moved to a residential school. An anthology of these blog posts entitled strange maps. From the high desert of southern california to the rain forest of the.
I cant remember when i heard it for the first time, but someone said, our identity is the story we repeat to ourselves. Simon garfields top 10 books with maps books the guardian. Anne strainchamps is the host of to the best of our knowledge. In addition to the europa polyglotta gem from 1730, which would be a pure delight to anyone with interest in languages and historical linguistics, there can be found a french satirical cartoon map from 1870, a map of the.
Every howto book should be this easy to read and look at. The posted graphic is often accompanied by informative notes. However, if youre like i am, and like to look things up on the internet as you read about them, the experience of reading one of franks. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what youre looking for. Head of map collections at the british library, peter barber has. Jordan peterson a list of influential books everyone. Nikole hannahjones, creator of the new york times 1619 project, awarded 2020 pulitzer prize. I just stumbled upon a great blog, strange maps, which offers an amazing collection ofstrange maps and eloquent discussions by the author on their history and context. The map is a hybrid of raiszs landform map style supplemented with diverse human landscape components. I keep on telling my story of how i moved between the east and west, between physical environments architecture, urban design and virtual web and mobile development and strategy, between technology and the humanities. Search the worlds information, including webpages, images, videos and more. The book doesnt add anything to the content already on the web, and you miss out on the links to original sources and crossreferences to other strange maps stories. Many publishers are based there, and book stalls stretch for half a mile along it, with pamphlets, paperbacks, outofprint editions and all kinds of publications in many languages spilling.
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst. With the exception of benjy in faulkners the sound and the. An atlas of cartographic curiosities paperback 26 nov 2009. Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide in pictures. He wrote the guide to this new book, which covers 3500 years of maps.
She has worked in public broadcasting at wamu in washington, dc, and at npr. Jacobs has spent a lifetime pondering maps of all kinds and finally found an outlet. Martin really does know you want him to write faster. His criteria are that a map should be visually arresting, tell a compelling story, and. When i first exchanged emails with frank jacobs, it was shortly after my titans unnamed methane sea had hit the internet. See our prints page for more details pff this map isnt part of any series, but we have other washington dc maps that you might want to check out. Today is the day wed been waiting for for a long, long time. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the south, attending a negro college from which he is expelled. Npr an original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the smallscale harvests of seven natural objects. Atlas obscuras summer radio roadtrip atlas obscura. Making maps works as a cartographic primer or reference it works as a textbook for cartography or gis classes finally, making maps works as a philosophical volume on the cartographic process to be returned to again and again.