Maps: Follow the map and you'll find the mapmaker

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 6, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As the Institute of British Geographers gathers at Guildford University this week, they have corralled their discussions under the theme Changing Places. It is a telling pun, hinting at the way geography is mutating - becoming more about cultural studies, more about environmental change, more about the dynamics of land-use and societies. Geography is keen to bury its reputation for being about river-lengths and mountain- heights.

Actually, it is the discipline's oldest practice, cartography, which has, so to speak, been put on the map. Last year, The English Patient reduced the nation to a ...

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