This slim book reminds us that maps are not just lines and images on a surface – on paper or a globe – they are also emotional passages into the remembering and the meaning of our lives.
G.T. Dempsey
Geography 101, Human Geography
Review: The Longest Line on the Map
This book tells the story of how and why the Pan-American Highway was conceived and, poignantly, the why of a stubborn gap that remains unconnected.
Maps and GIS
Review | Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th Edition
The Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th edition, has a new feature on Tourism and Travel and new maps on armed conflicts around the world, as well as a new map on Antarctica using the latest data from the British Antarctic Survey.
Geography 101
Review | Medieval Ireland
Medieval Ireland is Clare Downham’s comprehensive synthesis of the current state-of-play of the history of medieval Ireland, 400-1500 A.D.
Maps and GIS
Review | Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library
Tom Harper’s Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library is a ‘definitive showcase’ of the national map collection of the British Library, one of the world’s largest with over four million maps dating from 15 B.C. to the present.
Human Geography
Review | Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
The book, Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, examines theories of medicine and science within a colonial, racially-mixed population.
Human Geography
Review | The Ape that Understood the Universe
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve is an engaging, intriguing, and ultimately most satisfying look into what the human mind can do and how it got that way.
Maps and GIS
Review | The Consolation of Maps
Set in the world of the international trade in antique maps, this novel’s title seems most apt.
Maps and GIS
Review: The First Three Hundred Years of Historical Atlases
Though published a decade and a half ago, Walter Goffart’s Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, remains the indispensable reference source for the appearance and development of historical atlases in the Western world.
Human Geography
Review | A History of the Future
The History of Future presents a survey of the history of futuristic predictions from the nineteenth century on through the first two-thirds of the twentieth, in the English-speaking world
Maps and GIS
Review | Oxford Atlas of the World
G.T. Dempsey reviews the Oxford Atlas of the World. The 24th edition is scheduled to be published November, 2017.
Physical Geography
Review | Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
G.T. Dempsey reviews Bonnie J. Buratti’s Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System.