Free Map Book


Every map packages an idea. When there’s a match between what a map sets before us and our expectations, we may hardly notice that the map is, after all, not the real world but only one way of looking at it.
Ward Kaiser

This is a quote taken from a free map book which you can get, in various formats during the month of March from New Internationalists Australian site.

It's to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Mercator. 


Having quickly read through this and I can say that it is well worth getting a copy of... Plenty on the development of the Peters map, and the various uses that maps have been put to over the years...

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