What is The Love Map?

It's the story of romance - its changes through time and its variations around the globe - lovingly told in a lushly illustrated map.

The Love Map is filled with entertaining and informative text and pictures, lovingly prepared by award-winning writers, designers and cartographers.

Take a romantic voyage around the world, adventure into the heart of romance, discover the places, stories, traditions, histories and everything else associated with love with The Love Map.

• Four-color world map

• A smooching primer
• Literary love
• Songs of the heart
• Love on the silver screen
• The valentine
• Good lovin' gone bad

I feel it when I sorrow most:
It is better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
                                              ---Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Timeline

800 B.C. - Mythical love

Greek love-god Eros first appears in the works of chronicler Hesiod  In later depictions, Eros is the winged child of the sea-born love goddess Aphrodite.  His unerring arrows inflict the "sickness" of love.