Going Underground

The book I most covet in the store right now has to be Transit Maps of the World. It's a beautiful tome, with maps--both historic and contemporary--of all the world's metropolitan rail transit systems. Want to know how to get to the airport in Kuala Lumpur? Where to change lines in Bilbao? This is your book. It also includes histories of the world's various metros and summaries of up-and-coming systems from Belo Horizonte to Wuhan.

Boingboing.net's own Cory Doctorow swooned for this one, too, saying "This is sheer public transit/map porn, and I'm in love." Ditto.--David E