It's no secret that I love maps. I love looking at them, studying them, using them and teaching from them. I love current maps, outdated maps, beautiful maps, historical maps and, well, any kind of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. It’s been ten years since the last edition of The World Atlas of Whisky by ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

We show you how the world map and countries looked back then. Many millions of years ago, the world looked very different.

"My, Grandma - what a big atlas you have!" All the better to map the surface of the Earth to a frankly-ludicrous level of detail (this thing shows the location of shipwrecks), not to mention display ...

I gave a presentation recently over one of those Zoom group calls. When I asked for questions at the end, I was hit with an unexpected doozy: "Why is your world map upside down?" While online meetings ...

I’ve always enjoyed poring over a good map. Whether it’s thumbing through a road atlas, spinning around a globe, or sticking pushpins into a wall map to designate where I’ve been and where I want to ...

“Wine is geography,” Jancis Robinson MW often says. And in this new 8 th edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Ms. Robinson and co-author Hugh Johnson focus on wine region geography in depth. This ...

Karl the Fog really gets around. He’s based in San Francisco, but that’s not his primary residence. Sure, he works remotely, which allows him to spread the mist to Point Reyes — a whopping 200 days a ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...