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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
not as well edited as I'd like,
This review is from: 100 Maps: The Science, Art and Politics of Cartography Throughout History (Hardcover)
I was disappointed with this book. Certainly it contains many nice maps, but even the potential inherent in its large square size has been squandered.The very first map inside the book [of the Soviet Union] is neither explained well nor presented in a comprehensible way. It's not especially handsome. Even the authors express surprise that they included it, and their purported explanation for including it [Stalin killed kulaks] is kinda stupefying. Then there is the lousy proofreading. I just have to scratch my head in amazement when the very second word of text (after the introduction) is misspelled: "As Pofessor Black has pointed out..." Ouch! I would recommend instead The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps. That Pomegranite book is everything this is not -- focussed, handsomely presented and well-edited. True, Whitfield deals only with a subset of cartography (the Map of the World) but an important and wide-ranging subset indeed. In any event, this book overreaches in pompously presenting itself as an overview of the "Science, Art and Politics of Cartography Throughout History" --presumably, history recorded and not! Designed for the coffee table, "100 Maps" won't fit on your shelf, and you won't want it there in any event. I'm giving mine away. |
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100 Maps: The Science, Art and Politics of Cartography Throughout History by John O.E. Clark (Hardcover - October 28, 2005)
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