{"id":1789926,"date":"2021-01-11T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?page_id=1789926"},"modified":"2021-12-22T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T22:03:03","slug":"map-books-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/map-books-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Books of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are the map- and cartography-related books that, to my knowledge, have been published or are scheduled to be published in 2021. This page will be updated throughout the year as I receive new information.\u00a0To suggest a book for this list, please contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are a publisher, author or publicist and would like to send me a review copy, please see the reviewing guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Full disclosure: I earn income from qualifying purchases made via these links.<\/p>\n

\n

February<\/h3>\n

\"Children'sChildren\u2019s World Atlas<\/strong><\/a>
\nArcturus, 15 Feb 2021 | ages 8+
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BetterBetter Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers and Wonks<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Jonathan Schwabish
\nColumbia University Press<\/a>, 9 Feb 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MappingMapping America\u2019s National Parks<\/strong><\/a>
\nby the U.S. National Park Service
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 16 Feb 2021 (ebook)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

March<\/h3>\n

\"DigitalDigital Mapping and Indigenous America<\/strong><\/a>
\nedited by Janet Berry Hess
\nRoutledge, 31 Mar 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Times Mini Atlas of the World<\/strong> (8th ed.)<\/a>
\nHarperCollins<\/a>, 4 Mar 2021
\nAmazon<\/a>\u00a0(Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

April<\/h3>\n

\"\"The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Peter Hiller
\nGibbs Smith<\/a>, 20 Apr 2021
\nAmazon<\/a>\u00a0(Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookOxford Essential World Atlas<\/strong> (8th ed.)<\/a>
\nOxford University Press<\/a>, 1 Apr 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookOxford New Concise World Atlas<\/strong> (6th ed.)<\/a>
\nOxford University Press<\/a>, 1 Apr 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MappingMapping America\u2019s National Parks<\/strong><\/a>
\nby the U.S. National Park Service
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 20 Apr 2021 (paperback)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Christy Williams
\nWayne State University Press<\/a>, 27 Apr 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Apple Books<\/a> |\u00a0Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

May<\/h3>\n

\"ImagingImaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc<\/strong><\/a>
\nby\u00a0Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
\nRoutledge, 11 May 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TimesThe Times Reference Atlas of the World<\/strong> (9th ed.)<\/a>
\nHarperCollins,<\/a> 13 May 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

June<\/h3>\n

\"TheThe Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders<\/strong><\/a>
\nTransactions of the American Philosophical Society<\/em> 110 (4)
\nAmerican Philosophical Society Press<\/a>, 26 Jun 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (UK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

July<\/h3>\n

\"BookThe Locators: Adventure in South America<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Kyle Bauer, Colleen Connor and Wesley Jones
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 27 Jul 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

August<\/h3>\n

\"MappingMapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Jordana Dym
\nBrill<\/a>, 26 Aug 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookNational Geographic Kids World Atlas<\/strong> (6th ed.)<\/a>
\nNational Geographic, 24 Aug 2021 | ages\u00a010+
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ThematicThematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Kenneth Field
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 31 Aug 2021 (ebook)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

September<\/h3>\n

\"BookMapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Sarah Bell
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 28 Sep 2021 (ebook)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"BookAtlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput to Gotham City<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Matt Brown and Rhys B. Davies
\nBatsford<\/a>, 28 Sep 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Atlas of the Invisible<\/strong><\/a>\"Atlas<\/a>
\nby James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
\nParticular Books<\/a>, 2 Sep 2021 (U.K. edition)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

October<\/h3>\n

\"MappingMapping Nature Across the Americas<\/strong><\/a>
\nedited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and James R. Akerman
\nUniversity of Chicago Press<\/a>, 19 Oct 2021
\nAmazon<\/a>\u00a0(Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford Atlas of the World<\/strong> (28th ed.)<\/a>\"Book<\/a>
\nOxford University Press<\/a>, 1 Oct 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

November<\/h3>\n

\"EncountersEncounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography in the Americas<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Mirela Altic
\nUniversity of Chicago Press<\/a>, 19 Nov 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookNorth American Maps for Curious Minds<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Matthew Bucklan and Victor Cizek
\nThe Experiment<\/a>, 30 Nov 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AtlasAtlas of the Invisible<\/strong><\/a>
\nby James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
\nW. W. Norton<\/a>, 9 Nov 2021 (U.S. edition)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookPrisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps<\/strong> (Illustrated Young Readers Edition)<\/a>
\nby Tim Marshall | ages 8 and up
\nThe Experiment<\/a>, 30 Nov 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookGIS for Science: Maps for Saving the Planet, Vol. 3<\/strong><\/a>
\ned. by Dawn J. Wright and Christian Harder
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 23 Nov 2021
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

Announced for 2022<\/h3>\n

\"BookThe Boy Who Loved Maps<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Kari Allen; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
\nAnne Schwartz, 12 Jul 2022 | ages 4-8
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookMapping by Design: A Guide to ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Sarah Bell
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 4 Jan 2022 (paperback)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Quarantine Atlas<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Laura Bliss
\nBlack Dog & Leventhal<\/a>, 5 Apr 2022
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ThematicThematic Mapping: 101 Inspiring Ways to Visualise Empirical Data<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Kenneth Field
\nEsri Press<\/a>, 29 Mar 2022 (paperback)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n

\"BookThe Cartographers<\/strong><\/a>
\nby Peng Shepherd
\nWilliam Morrow<\/a>, 15 Mar 2022 (US); Orion<\/a>, 17 Mar 2022 (UK)
\nAmazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>) | Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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