Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah

Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, ‘you can’t use old maps to explore a new world.’ And now, when the world is changing faster than ever before, our old maps are no longer fit for purpose.

Welcome to Terra Incognita. Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah chart humanity’s impact on the planet, and the ways in which we can make a real impact to save it, and to thrive as a species.

Learn about: fires in the arctic; the impact of sea level rise on cities around the world; the truth about immigration – and why fears in the West are a myth; the counter-intuitive future of population rise; the miracles of health and education that are waiting around the corner, and the reality about inequality, and how we end it. The book traces the paths of peoples, cities, wars, climates and technologies, all on a global scale. Full of facts that will confound you, inform you, and ultimately empower you, Terra Incognita guides readers to a new place of understanding, rather than to a physical location.

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Reviews and endorsements:

This extraordinary book – with 100 fascinating maps, embedded in a richly informative text – offers a comprehensive perspective on global trends. It is amazing how much analysis the distinguished authors have distilled into a single volume that will appeal equally to browsers and scholars. The book is especially welcome at a time when COVID-19 is disrupting our interconnected world. It would be hard to imagine a better text to guide and enlighten us as we aim to ‘remake’ a better world. It deserves a very wide readership. I thought the book was amazing- it would be my ‘desert island’ choice!
Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of On the Future

Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics.
Stephen Fry

An indispensable read. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah´s hypnotic maps surprise and amaze. This book offers a future-looking guide to navigate our uncertain times. Offering an unflinching account of our challenges and ways to fix them, it willleave you optimistic about the future.
Arianna Huffington

A stunning account of our fast-changing world. Earth Time is a wake-up call and blueprint for future change. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah´s extraordinary maps offer an entirely new perspective on some of our most urgent environmental and geopolitical conundrums.
Francis Fukuyama, New York Times Bestselling author of The End of History and the Last Man

A gorgeous and uniquely informative account of the state of the world in the 21st Century. A riveting account of humanity’s most pressing challenges and innovative solutions.
Steven Pinker

Mesmerising and deeply revealing.
CNN

It is fascinating. The images are striking. They dispel myths that the media and people pick up on.
BBC

The visualisation can help people better understand the extent of the issues, and potentially push for support.’
FastCompany

The maps are nothing short of mesmerizing.
Business Insider

Every young person must read this book. Full of mesmerizing maps and powerful story-telling, Terra Incognita is an indispensable guide to change our futures for the better.
Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol

Terra Incognita draws readers into multiple worlds and provides the tools to navigate between them. Goldin and Muggah use powerfully-engaging maps to help understand and confront our biggest challenges – from climate change to inequality. By inviting readers to traverse a vast range of disciplines and ideas, their volume helps each of us better appreciate how our problems are interconnected. This is a must read for everyone striving to make a better world.
Saskia Sassen, Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, author of Expulsions and The Global City

The mapmakers of old wrote “Here Be Dragons” to designated unknown and uncharted areas. Terra Incognita simultaneously shows us how much of our world we can see and map and how many dark places still remain to be explored. Most important, it is a vital tool for teaching students, researchers, and analysts how to change our mental models — our imagined maps — of the worlds we think we inhabit. Our future depends on it.
Anne-Marie Slaughter

Terra Incognita take us on an exhilarating journey of the mega-trends that are remaking our world. Using powerful maps and graphics, it provides much-needed guideposts to the incredible shifts and challenges going on all around us. Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah provide a necessary antidote to the paralyzing uncertainty and pessimistic fatalism that threatens to overwhelm us all. This book offers a bold new perspective not just on the challenges we face, but how, armed with the right data and information, we can go about fixing them.
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class

Amidst an abundance of global crisis and unrest, it’s easy to feel as if there’s no prescription for the future. But Terra Incognita provides us with just that, through stunning maps and visual aides that illuminate the most pressing issues of our time.
Chris Anderson, New York Times Bestselling author of Ted Talks and Curator of Ted

Terra Incognita brilliantly makes our world today into a Terra Cognita, a place that becomes understandable through ingenious maps and visualizations.  Goldin and Muggah offer remarkable insights into our interconnected global society through both maps and text.  The book is filled with insights and delights that will cause the reader to exclaim, page after page, “I didn’t know that!” And now we do.
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and Author of The Ages of Globalization (2020)