James Cheshire

Full colour visual maps illustrating statistical information of many things including air pollution, popular names, light pollution, air traffic movements. Quite interesting, and graphically stimulating, but a little like reading an encyclopaedia.

Overrated. How did this end up with such good reviews? It's a bunch of maps, with a lot of social drama behind them, but a lot of the maps aren't that interesting or well-thought out.

When I saw this book, I knew I had to check it out! I LOVE maps and this one is super unique: maps that show how inhospitable the South is to The Marshall Islands in the South Pacific where water is literally rising above the buildings to a redrawing of state lines by commute in the U.S. There is just SO MUCH in this book to read, to look at, to dissect. Fascinating!

nonfiction - visual maps and charts of social, historical and scientific data

lots of (sometimes tiny) text but pretty fascinating. A second, additional volume would probably do well!