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I'm Kishore Hari.

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Last year, I interviewed Oliver Uberti and James Cheshire about their book,

Where the Animals Go, which was easily my favorite science book of the year,

with stunning maps of animal migrations, from understanding how penguins dive and hunt below

the Antarctic, to how albatross fly through the air to understanding how

baboons make their daily commute in the Congo. Well, this week, I'm back with an interview

about my favorite science book of 2018, well, at least so far. And guess what? It's about Maps

again. Science journalist Greg Miller and Betsy Mason took

their obsession with maps, historical, geologic, sciencey, even of other worlds, and translated that

into one of the most beautiful and interesting compendium of stories I've ever read. The book is

filled with over 200 maps, some famous like maps of

the ocean floor, some obscure like a geologic map of the moon, which is easily one of the

visually craziest maps I've ever seen. I fully admit it's weird to talk about an incredibly

visual book in podcast form, but the stories behind the maps are just as interesting

as the maps themselves, or at least they're close. And if you don't want to get a copy of the

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