Theatre of the World
''Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-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.''...
''Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with pieces-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.''...
