Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings · 19 Sep 2011 · 367pp · 99,765 words
everywhere when I was growing up—classrooms, nightly newscasts, stamps, government briefing rooms—and so my generation grew up thinking that Greenland was bigger than Africa, since Greenland is oversized fourteenfold on Mercator maps. Of course, all map projections have to fudge somewhere, whether on area or on direction. Imagine trying to flatten an