A celebratory look back at one hundred years of passenger flight featuring full-colour
reproductions of route maps and posters from the world's most iconic airlinesFrom the first
faltering flights over plains water and mountains to the vast networks of today air travel
has transformed the world and how people see it. Maps played their part in showing what was
possible and who was offering new opportunities. As tiny operations with barely serviceable
airplanes pushed out farther and farther growing and merging to form massive global empires
so the scope of their maps became bigger and bolder until the entire world was shrunk down to
a single sheet of paper. Designs featured sumptuous Art Deco style intricate artistry bold
modernism 60s psychedelia clever photography and even underground map-style diagrams. For
the first time Mark Ovenden and Maxwell Roberts chart the development of the airline map and
in doing so tell the story of a century of cartography civil aviation graphic design and
marketing. Airline Maps is a visual feast that reminds the reader that mapping the journey is
an essential part of arriving at the destination.
