About the book: 1957 / The book of a young writer, cartographer by profession, Askold Lvovich Sheikin, "The Tale of a Map" is written in the form of plot stories. The author talks about the meaning and practical use of various cards. Everyone needs a map - scientists and collective farmers, statesmen and land surveyors. Without a map, a pilot cannot fly a plane, a captain cannot control a ship, and neither a geologist, nor a builder, nor a geographer, nor many other specialists will be able to work correctly. What maps were there before, the history of their creation and how people learned to make very diverse modern maps, the reader will learn from this book. The author clearly shows the work of an army of topographers and cartographers who tirelessly do their great and necessary work.