Betsy Mason and Greg Miller’s ALL OVER THE MAP: A Cartographic Odyssey (National Geographic, $50) is an absorbing and quirky history of mapmaking. Divided into categories (waterways, cities ...

The map is located in Madaba, Jordan, and depicts a total of 157 sites—many of which have yet to be found. One of the many lost cities is a place called Tharais, which dates all the way back to ...