Rough sketch of themes (WIP):

Maps as wonders/spectacles:

• Marvels at the boundaries of ancient maps.

• Treasure maps and locations of shipwrecks.

• Mapping things below us: caves, tunnels, sewers, the deep ocean.

• Mapping things above us: ancient cosmography, star charts/atlases, bird migrations.

• Mythical lands, lost lands/civilizations, lost cities.

• Nowhere, Non-Places, Elsewhere.

• Maps and power, e.g. political uses of cosmography, secret maps for war, etc.

Aesthetics and maps

• Impact of maps on literature and writing.

• Drawing maps

Varieties of atlases (physical geography, cultural etc)