MAP ADDICT: A TALE OF OBESSION (PB)

A Tale Of Obsession, Fudge & The Ordnance Survey. In the style of Attention All Shipping and The Cloudspotters Guide, this is an enthralling celebration of all things map-oriented in Britain, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic. Mixing wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, it unearths the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps. Combining history, travel, politics, memoir and oblique observation in a highly readable, and often very funny, style, Mike Parker confesses how his own impressive map collection was founded on a virulent teenage shoplifting habit, ponders how a good leftie can be so gung-ho about British cartographic imperialism and wages a one-man war against the moronic blandishments of the Sat Nav and Google Maps age.