Visions of the World: A History of Maps.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | May 1, 2004 | Copyright

Visions of the World: A History of Maps. Jeremy Black. Mitchell Beazley. [pounds sterling]25.00 176 pages. ISBN 1-84000-834-2. In his introduction Prof. Black shows how complex is the world of maps by referring to a New Zealand tea towel which showed the world with New Zealand at the 'top': it is only convention that places the north at the 'top' of what is, after all, a globe. A map, he writes, can no longer be considered as a 'representation of reality' but as 'a depiction of spatial ...

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