For the love of maps: Foreword / by Dava Sobel --
Introduction: the map that wrote itself --
The men who sold the world --
Venice, China and a trip to the moon --
The mystery of Vinland --
What's the good of Mercator? --
Mapping a cittee (without forder trouble) --
Six increasingly coordinated tales of the ordnance survey --
The legendary mountains of Kong --
The opening of America and the gridding of Manhattan --
Cholera and the map that stopped it --
"X" marks the spot: Treasure Island --
The worst journey in the world to the last place to be mapped --
Maps in all our hands: a brief history of the guidebook --
Casablanca, Harry Potter and where Jennifer Aniston lives --
How to make a very big globe --
The biggest map dealer, the biggest map thief --
Driving into lakes: how GPS put the world in a box --
Pass go and proceed directly to Skyrim --
Epilogue: the instant, always-on, me-mapping of everywhere.
