New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (2002). First edition - A book which discusses how maps "reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the acquisition of territories. [It] looks at maps in relation to journals, correspondence, advertisements, and novels by authors such as Joseph Conrad and Michael Ondaatje. Piper follows the history of cartography through three stages: the establishment of the prime meridian, the development of aerial photography, and the emergence of satellite and computer mapping." Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. xiv, 220 pp. ISBN: 0-813530733.