This Way Up — Map Men

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature Travel Writing Book 2025 Educational smart and funny Richard Osman This book is superb Charlie Brooker Brilliant Fascinating Hilarious Jonn Elledge bestselling author of A History of the World in 47 Borders The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all round cartographical nerds The Map Men Hello we re the Map Men and in the following pages we ve selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps Some of them are decades old some are centuries old and some are so recent they re being published today or yesterday if you re reading this tomorrow They include world maps colonial maps corporate maps Soviet maps pioneer maps news maps and maps whose intended use was hijacked for a French surrealist political movement in the 1950s Whether you re an avid map junkie or simply map curious you will uncover a unique tale of adventure error and unexpected humour in each chapter as we attempt to answer the question What on earth happened here So ditch the compass or disable location services and set out on a journey with us the Map Men into a world of cartographic chaos and mappy mishaps Because the worst maps are the best maps Tanıtım Bülteninden