The Cheshire and Merseyside Bus Handbook Book

An interesting short history of the Mercator projection, as well as a brief critique of the Peters projection, which coincidentally was just selected as the official map projection for the Boston (?) public school system.

I've been reading a couple other Monmonier books (How to Lie with Maps, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim and Inflame) and I appreciate his outspoken devotion to clear and concise writing. He doesn't try to be obtuse--he communicates his thoughts clearly, something that doesn't always happen, especially in academic writing. The author is obviously opinionated, but he states clearly why. I would recommend it for anyone interested in geographic history, or even anyone curious about why world maps look the way that they do.