El porqué de los mapas

In the old days, knowing the location of the water, the fruit trees, and the lair could mean the difference between life and death. No society has been able to subsist and develop without a map, at least a mental one, of its environment. It is precisely the conversion into signs of this mental chart that gave way to the birth of cartography. Eduard Dalmau sets out to document the origin of maps by following the path of the pioneers of cartography, whose thinking shaped the world we know today. Through this story, complemented with examples of all kinds that stand out for their antiquity, rarity and creativity -Polynesian navigation charts, Babylonian tablets, routes carved in rock- The Why of Maps gives us a unique opportunity to decipher the secrets of the oldest and most mysterious planes of the Earth. Thus, what the reader is dealing with is a piece of history that reveals how the foundations of our civilization were laid grain by grain, stone by stone.