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Lost worlds ; Fabulous landscapes, mythical beasts and exotic place names - an online collection of ancient maps reveals the golden age of cartography. Ed Caesar reports
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Joseph Conrad notes, in Heart of Darkness, that "the conquest of
the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have
a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is
not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
Conrad's celebrated novella was set against the backdrop of
Europe's "scramble for Africa", when its conquest seemed - as it had
done for centuries - a very pretty thing indeed. And in a series of
113 maps of Africa - dating from 1530 ...
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Welsh place names guide.(News)
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Place names offer glimpse of the past
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Meredith Burrill, 94, expert on place names.(Metropolitan Times)(Obituary)
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Place names - a window into history, culture
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Alaskan place names from Eek to Sagavanirktok reflect history
Charleston Daily Mail
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New book reveals the origins of British place names.('The Penguin Dictionary of British Place Names' )(Brief Article)
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; M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The origins of British place names are revealed in a new book by Adrian Room. 'The Penguin Dictionary of British Place Names' provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to the meaning and history of 10,000 place names in England, Scotland and Wales. The
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... spelled the same way. Without such order, maps might just as well be refrigerator art ... Alaska wants to call the peak Denali on its maps, as state law requires, it's free to do ... explorers and geographers were churning out maps and charts of the expanding nation. Many ...
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Widow's joy over place names book
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PLACES WORTH WRITING ABOUT; RETIRED LATIN TEACHER'S BOOKS EXPLAIN ORIGINS OF PLACE NAMES.(Neighbors East)
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; ... books: Characters in Mythology and Classical Place Names in New York State: Origins, Histories and Meanings. His books include maps and illustrations, some by his late mother-in-law, Bettina Chapman, and others by Syracuse artist Carolyn Coit. Farrell said ...
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