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"A fascinating book that I will always treasure."―Sir Ranulph Fiennes"This wonderful book is a reminder of how much careful thought was given to the shape of the world even in ancient times - the landscape, how places are related to one another. I pored over these maps for hours, imagining those minds hard at work, visualising how it all connected as a whole. Just brilliant."―Neil Oliver"In his gorgeous book, 'Theater of the World,' Thomas Reinertsen Berg provides dozens of full-color maps along with fascinating details about the history of attempts to represent geographical space...Readers can expect to spend happy hours with this book, tracing routes and reading reports of adventuring navigators."―Lorraine Berry, The Washington Post"Thomas Reinertsen Berg's THEATER OF THE WORLD: The Maps that Made History is a thorough study of cartography, past and present. But more than that, it's an exploration of what maps mean and why we'll never stop trying to document the world arounds us."―Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure"This engagingly Illustrated four-color history detailing mapmaking from the antiquities to the modern day is a treasure-trove for real and armchair travelers."―John J. Kelly, The Detroit Free Press"Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with piece-of-eight-like snippets of information...this is an enthralling book, and joins the likes of Simon Garfield's On the Map and Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in Twelve Maps in the field of popular reaffirmations of the ingenuity of geography."―Travis Elborough, The Spectator "This beautiful collection of historic maps will resonate with folks prone to wanderlust and those longing for a sense of place. A Norwegian journalist mines the human desire to explore while sharing lush cartography from the Stone Age to the age of exploration to modern satellite imagery."―Garden & Gun"Armchair travelers and international adventurers follow maps around the world, and in this handsome and compelling book, Norwegian journalist and writer Berg focuses on the creation of maps. Segueing from Stone to Internet Age, he relates stories of how maps were created, reflected value judgments, and shifted over time. Berg's idiosyncratic book is not merely a collection of maps but rather a cartographic history - a rich, diverse story of how art, technology, and human impulses jostle, with mapping and money hand in hand, raising the question of whether Google is too dominant a force in the map service business."―The National Book Review"The visual exploration that is Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History makes for the perfect bonding experience with you and your pops...Feast your eyes on the vibrant history of mapmaking and its illustrated evolution across centuries. Best enjoyed amongst history buffs in a cigar-filled study with leather armchairs."―Jahla Seppanen, The Manual"Visually stunning...it's gone straight to the top of my Christmas present list."―The Bookseller
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About the Author
Thomas Reinertsen Berg is a Norwegian journalist and writer. He has written for several Norwegian papers including Morgenbladet, Klassekampen and Dagsavisen. Theater of the World, his first book, was honored with the 2017 Brageprisen, an award given annually to Norway's premier non-fiction book.
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Product details
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (December 4, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316450766
ISBN-13: 978-0316450768
Product Dimensions:
7.5 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.3 out of 5 stars
7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#253,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
The history is interesting and the maps are excellent. The title should end with "According to Norway" as the author is Norwegian, but this does not detract in any way from the book. I read the first edition which, unfortunately, was hastily and poorly translated and barely edited. It seems that Google Translate was used instead of a skilled translator. The book is written almost entirely in the present tense even when talking about events that occurred centuries ago. Also the punctuation isn't standard American punctuation (using a single mark instead of double quotation marks). I recommend the book, but don't expect a good translation.
I purchased this solely on the reviews in professional journals. There was no preview available on Amazon or Goodreads. Maybe I got a bad copy, but I didn't find it beautifully illustrated...in fact, my copy was barely illustrated at all! It's a book of maps for Pete's sake! There isn't a dearth of maps, so why not include a few?
Gave as a gift
This was a gift and quite well received. The book is beautiful.
I wish that there were more illustrations.
There were mostly positive reviews on Goodreads, but most of them were not in English, which leads me to believe they were reviewing the original Norwegian edition.I didn't get very far with this; I found the experience very frustrating. This book needs lots of pictures! There were few illustrations, and they appear to have been randomly chosen with no references in the text. Many places in the text need a map or other picture, and there are none--e.g., verbal descriptions of ancient mariners' routes without providing corresponding maps. There is no index other than people's names, so if a map is referred to that was mentioned earlier, you can't find it. The book apparently omits the work of William Smith, the maker of The Map that Changed the World (book title), which mapped England's geological strata.I gave it two stars rather than one because the prose was OK, though often rambling to irrelevant material.
Theater of the World: The Maps That Made History tries to tell the story of the development of map making, starting with the ancient Assyrians up to the modern GPS age.As a whole, this book does a good job of explaining the development of better and more accurate techniques throughout the ages; however, this is a translation of a Norwegian book, and especially from the middle ages on, becomes more about mapping the Scandinavian peninsula than the rest of the world.Unless you are interested in the details of mapping the Scandinavian peninsula, you might want a book with a more world wide view.
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