A History of the World in Twelve MapsA magical book which explores how the world was seen at twelve points in history, through twelve extraordinary maps and the minds of those who made them. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places.