{"id":1791545,"date":"2021-08-05T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791545"},"modified":"2021-08-10T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:57:54","slug":"a-flurry-of-new-book-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/a-flurry-of-new-book-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flurry of New Book Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

News about upcoming map books has been thin on the ground of late, which is hardly surprising given the havoc the pandemic has wreaked on the publishing industry as a whole. But in just the past two days we\u2019ve seen three<\/em> significant new book announcements.<\/p>\n

Kenneth Field\u2019s long-awaited Thematic Mapping: 101 Ways to Visualise Empirical Data<\/em><\/strong>, which takes as its starting point a map of a single event\u2014the 2016 U.S. presidential election\u2014will be out from Esri Press as an ebook on the 31st of August, Ken announced yesterday<\/a>. Pre-order: Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"You might remember James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti\u2019s amazing 2016 book Where the Animals Go<\/em><\/a>. Their next book of data visualizations, Atlas of the Invisible<\/em><\/strong>, will be out in September from Particular Books<\/a> in the U.K. and in November from W. W. Norton<\/a> in North America. Pre-order: Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>), Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Life under COVID-19<\/em><\/strong> is the byproduct of CityLab\u2019s 2020 project soliciting hand-drawn maps of life under quarantine (previously here<\/a> and here<\/a>). In the book version, Laura Bliss matches 65 of those submissions with original essays. Due out in April 2022 from Black Dog & Leventhal<\/a>. Pre-order: Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve updated the Map Books of 2021<\/a> page with these books; that page still looks awfully sparse compared with previous years. If there\u2019s a map-related book coming out this year that I haven\u2019t listed, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News about upcoming map books has been thin on the ground of late, which is hardly surprising given the havoc the pandemic has wreaked on the publishing industry as a whole. 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