Simon Garfield starts his journey through the story of maps in the Great Library of Alexandria where, for the first time, scholars began to plot the wider world. Show more

Simon Garfield's journey through the world of maps investigates why America was named after a man who got there a year after Christopher Columbus. Show more

Simon Garfield's journey through the world of maps shows how the plotting of a special map of London led a Victorian doctor to the source of cholera and enabled him to conquer it. Show more

After the brilliant theories of Alexandria, the world appeared to fall into a cartographic dark age for about a thousand years. Show more

Is it true that women are less good at navigating than men - or do they just have different ways of finding their bearings? Simon Garfield concludes his journey through maps. Show more