Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer and an expatriate photographer who impulsively decide to travel across the remote countryside. As their trip comes to an end, the two must decide where to go from HERE.

From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , a stunning new novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in...

Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by rulers, explorers and adventures these books were used to build empires, wage wars, encourage diplomacy and nurture trade. Written by Philip Parker, an authority on the history of maps, this book brings these fascinating artefacts to life, offering a unique, lavishly illustrated guide to the history of these incredible books and the cartographers behind them. This beautiful book...

When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah...

Presents the life of the scientist responsible for the first map of the ocean floor, describing her experiences with sexism and her pioneering work which led to the confirmation of the theory of continental drift.

Seven centuries ago, the world was shrunk by the magic-spawned Cataclysm, which shattered the Empire into Nine Principalities and buried it in black ice. As ice and magic receded, Qiro Anturasi's genius for finding new trade routes allowed Nalenyr to prosper again. His talent yielded enormous power and wealth, but now it may cost his family their lives.

"When the sky breaks apart and an earthquake shatters the seaside city of Sharis, cartographer Rukha Masreen is far from home. Caught in the city's ruins with only her tools and her wits, she meets a traveling companion who will change her course forever: the wizard Eshu, who stumbles out of a mirror with hungry ghosts on his heels. He's everything that raises her hackles: high-strung, grandiloquent, stubborn as iron. But he needs to get home, too,...

"In 1660, Amsterdam is the trading and map-printing capital of the world. Anneke van Brug is one of the colorists paid to enhance black-and-white maps for a growing number of collectors. Her artistic talent brings her to the attention of the Blaeu printing house, and she begins to color for a rich merchant, Willem de Groot. But Anneke is not content to simply embellish the work of others; she longs to create maps of her own. Cartography, however,...

A biography of an engineer and inventor, born a Scotsman and died an American patriot, who served as geographer and surveyor-general for the American army in the Revolutionary War. Robert Erskine's contribution to the American cause in the Revolution has, by a quirk of history, been neglected, and the man himself almost forgotten. The New Jersey ironmaster who supplied much of the ordnance for Washington's armies and the surveyor upon whose military...