The world became a theater long before the theater, and even more so before Shakespeare's Globe, namely at that marvelous moment when a person saw fields, roads and houses from a bird's eye view and depicted them on a reduced scale on stone. This is how the first map on Earth appeared, two and a half thousand years ago, engraved on a rock in the Camonica Valley. The Norwegian explorer's lavishly illustrated book offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, taking us all the way from the cryptic symbols of the first people to the Google Earth project to show how the ability to imagine what the world looks like evolved alongside exploration. Each chapter seems to reveal to us the stage on which amazing scenes are played out: the dramatic search for the Northwest Passage, the mysterious Panoti Islands, “where people cover completely naked bodies with their own ears,” the unexpected discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and continental drift, the adventures of the rocket “ V-2”, which ended with the advent of satellite “Transit” and GPS. But no matter how the world appears to humanity - Ptolemaic, or Copernican, carved on a mammoth tusk or digitized in our mobile phone - it never ceases to fascinate us and attract us with its endless secrets. Like centuries ago, today, thanks to maps (which have become sensory and digital), we not only find the right road or order pizza, but also discover our planet, our history and, of course, new roles. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.