‘Mapping the Imagination’ with Simon Winchester, Peter Turchi and Madhur Jaffrey

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.05.06 | 8:56 AM ET

Here’s something for anyone who gets a thrill from looking at a map: The public radio show “To the Best of Our Knowledge” devoted an hour this weekend to stories about maps and the imagination. Among the segments: “Maps of the Imagination” author Peter Turchi talks about map-making and writing and Simon Winchester discusses the man behind his book “The Map that Changed the World.”