Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

Visiting the world's first known map, etched into the rocks of a remote alpine hillside 3,000 years ago, Brotton explores how each culture develops it...

Religious passion inspires beautiful medieval maps of the world, showing the way to heaven, the pilgrims' route to Jerusalem and monstrous children wh...

Maps offer visions of distant lands, tempting explorers to plunder and conquer. However, adventurers first had to tackle the great challenge of mappin...