Writing style
Conversational · Journalistic · Witty
Apple BooksMaphead
History
- Print length
- 276 pagesScribner, 2011
Description
Ken Jennings traces the human urge to map the world and the communities that grow around that urge. Blending a history of cartography with his own lifelong fascination with geography, he moves from a London map fair to the programmers behind Google Earth. Along the way he meets highpointers chasing geographic summits, geocachers turning coordinates into treasure hunts, competitors testing their command of road atlases, and readers absorbed by invented landscapes. These varied pursuits show maps as more than practical diagrams: they can organize memory, identity, rivalry, imagination, and belonging. Maphead argues that even in a digital age, making and reading maps remain fundamental ways of understanding history and our place in the world.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Earnest · Humorous · Playful · Reflective
Structure
Episodic
Focus
Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
1 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
More by Ken Jennings
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781439167175
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