- List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. The First Wayfinders
- 2. Right to Roam
- 3. Maps in the Mind
- 4. Thinking Space
- 5. From A to B and Back Again
- 6. You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine
- 7. Natural Navigators
- 8. The Psychology of Lost
- 9. City Sense
- 10. Am I Here?
- 11. Epilogue: The End of the Road
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- * Illustrations
- In the text
- Routes taken by early sapiens out of Africa and around the world (years before the present)
- Creag nan Eun, the ‘rock of the birds’, an ancient wayfinding landmark in the Grampian Mountains, Perthshire
- The decreasing home range of children across three generations of the same Sheffield family
- Map drawn by a ten-year-old boy who goes to school on his own (top) compared with one drawn by a ten-year-old boy who is driven by an adult; the bottom image shows the actual itinerary
- Play Street, New York City
- Dudchenko’s experimental set-up
- The four main types of spatial cell discussed in this chapter and their various roles
- Adrian Horner’s ‘Walking Through Doorways’ experiment
- Gustave Doré’s engraving of Dante’s lonely plight
- Tolkien’s map of Middle-earth
- The Santa Barbara Sense of Direction questionnaire, the standard test of navigational proficiency
- Mental rotation and folding, two common tests of small-scale spatial ability
- Harold Gatty (left) with pilot Wiley Post
- Shackleton’s navigator, Frank Worsley
- The Polynesian star compass
- Archie Archambault’s ‘gestural’ map of London
- In the plate section
- Claudio Aporta’s Atlas of Inuit trails
- The firing pattern of a typical place cell and how it relates to the position of an animal in a box
- The firing behaviour of typical boundary cells (BVCs) and how they influence place cells
- The regions in the hippocampal area of the rat’s brain that are relevant to navigation
- A grid cell firing pattern
- Hugo Spiers’ global map of national navigation performance
- Gerry Largay, who went missing near Redington in July 2013 while attempting to walk the length of the Appalachian Trail
- Section of the Appalachian Trail where Gerry Largay lost her way
- GPS log of rescuers’ search for Gerry Largay
- How Londoners imagine their city
- The London Underground: the unofficial, topographically accurate map, and the official (approximate) map
- The Four Mountains Test of spatial memory
- The Blackrock care home and its imagined paths for wandering: the ground-floor plan
- In the text
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