An Evening with the Map Men - Manchester Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, the creators of the popular Map Men YouTube series, for a special event celebrating the paperback release of their brilliant book: This Way Up.
The duo's debut takes a hilarious look at cartography's biggest blunders through a selection of what the pair believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. From misplaced borders to missing countries, to extremely ill-advised shortcuts, every erroneous map has a great story behind it, often with far-reaching consequences...
About This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)

Hello, we're the Map Men, and in the following pages we've selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some are centuries old and some are so recent they're being published today (or yesterday, if you’re reading this tomorrow).

They include world maps, colonial maps, corporate maps, Soviet maps, pioneer maps, news maps and maps whose intended use was hijacked for a French surrealist political movement in the 1950s. Whether you’re an avid map junkie or simply ‘map-curious’, you will uncover a unique tale of adventure, error and unexpected humour in each chapter, as we attempt to answer the question: ‘What on earth happened here?’

So, ditch the compass (or disable location services) and set out on a journey with us, the Map Men, into a world of cartographic chaos and mappy mishaps.

Because the worst maps are the best maps.
About the authors

Former teacher MARK COOPER-JONES has always loved the subject of geography. After performing a series of acclaimed Edinburgh Festival stand-up shows about being a geography teacher (see also: ‘therapy’), Mark joined forces with Jay Foreman, with his preexisting YouTube channel and similar geeky-geography-esque interests, to create ‘Map Men’, a YouTube series about the stories behind maps, and curious geographical questions.

JAY FOREMAN is a comedian from London best known as half of the YouTube duo ‘Map Men’. Jay began his comedy career in 2009 as a musical comedian, performing shows at the Edinburgh Fringe and around the UK. Jay still performs musical comedy, but is becoming more well known for his YouTube channel, where he makes comedy-documentaries about geography and transport, that combine historical facts with absurd humour.

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