Every Map Is A Lie: 25 Ideas About How Humans Mapped the World and Still Got it Wrong (One World Ideas Series)

Every map you have ever seen has been making choices you were never told about. Which direction is up. Whose country sits at the centre. What gets left blank and why. Every Map Is a Lie is the story of cartography told as it should be told — as a human story full of power, accident, ambition and erasure. A family in Melbourne asks the questions most people never think to ask. The answers take them from ancient Babylon to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, from a Portuguese restaurant to the State Library of Victoria, from the first map that named America to the satellite tracking every move you make today.