For those of you in Ontario, you can catch this starting tonight on TVO (TV Ontario).
North American Premiere – Mapping The World
UK professor and self-professed “map fanatic” Jerry Brotton charts the history of cartography in this fascinating three-part series.
Mapping the World tells the epic and beautiful story of cartography. Maps have been a driving force for individual change and political and scientific revolution. They have defined peoples and started wars, shown the way to heaven and sent men and women to their bloody deaths, built fortunes and exposed poverty, named continents and brought families closer together. In tracing the seismic shifts in the history of map-making and understanding what drove the map-makers themselves, this program ensures that we will never look at a map in the same way again.
In tracing the seismic shifts in the history of map-making, this program ensures that we will never look at a map in the same way again.
Mondays January 24 – February 7, 2011 at 10 pm
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