{"product_id":"all-over-the-map-a-cartographic-odyssey-9781426219726","title":"All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey","description":"\u003cb\u003eCreated for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog \"All Over the Map\"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBETSY MASON is an award-winning science journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and co-author (with Greg Miller) of the National Geographic blog \"All Over the Map.\" She was a 2015-2016 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow. Previously she was the online science editor for \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e and the science reporter for the Contra Costa Times. Before becoming a journalist, Mason earned a master's degree in geology at Stanford University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGREG MILLER is a science and tech journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Previously he was a senior writer at \u003ci\u003eWired \u003c\/i\u003eand a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eScience\u003c\/i\u003e, where he won several honors. Miller earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford University. He has appeared on public radio's \u003ci\u003eScience Friday\u003c\/i\u003e to discuss maps and has given talks on a wide variety of cartography-related topics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"National Geographic Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670675525906,"sku":"9781426219726","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de343aab-5efd-4afc-9104-791b06da0abb.jpg?v=1733786762","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-over-the-map-a-cartographic-odyssey-9781426219726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}