Today I want to recommend a book I have been reading on and off over a long time. It’s the book On The Map – Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield. It’s a book about the history of maps and cartography, starting with the ancient Greeks to the online maps of today. It covers topics like the history of atlases, the story on how the South Pole was discovered without maps, the history of the Mercator projection and much more. I have the hardcover version, and it is a beautiful book with many illustrations and good paper quality. It is well written and never boring (at least not for me). It can be read from start to end like I’m doing, or you can go straight for any of the chapters as they are all individual stories that can be read by themselves. That has made it possible for me to read a chapter, leave it for months and then read the next chapter. I am not fully done with it, but I look forward to read the last chapters soon.