This Way Up: A Comedy of Geography

​Join the duo behind the phenomenally popular YouTube series, Map Men, for an evening of cartography and comedy as they take you through history's WORST maps.

​‘This book is superb’ - Charlie Brooker

​After a laugh-out-loud discussion, they'll be taking your questions as well as signing copies of their brand new book.

​Every ticket comes with a copy of THIS WAY UP, which the Map Men will sign and dedicate on the night.

​About the book: THIS WAY UP

​The debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-around cartographical nerds, The Map Men!

​Hello, we're the Map Men, and in the following pages, we've selected what we believe to be some of the very best wrong maps. Some of them are decades old, some are centuries old, and some are so recent they're being published today (or yesterday, if you’re reading this tomorrow).

​They include world maps, colonial maps, corporate maps, Soviet maps, pioneer maps, news maps and maps whose intended use was hijacked for a French surrealist political movement in the 1950s. Whether you’re an avid map junkie or simply ‘map-curious’, you will uncover a unique tale of adventure, error and unexpected humour in each chapter, as we attempt to answer the question: ‘What on earth happened here?’

​So, ditch the compass (or disable location services) and set out on a journey with us, the Map Men, into a world of cartographic chaos and mappy mishaps.

​Because the worst maps are the best maps.

​About The Map Men

​Duo Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones are behind the hit YouTube series Map Men, a unique brand of comedy about geography, which has brought huge success. Comedian Mark, a former geography teacher and TV producer, and Ja,y who launched his career as a musical comedian, first performed together at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They began releasing comic sketch videos about geography and maps on YouTube in 2016.