Seeing Through Maps

Views of the world from different perspectives

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  • Designed to encourage its readers to ask questions about the maps they use in life
  • 280 x 215 mm, paperback
  • 153 pages

A concerned mother, Daniella of Ontario, Canada, ordered maps for a school project for her son, Isaac. Later, Daniella emailed "After his presentation, Isaac organized a debate where students debated which map was the best or most representative of the real world... Isaac said that the best part of the project for him was sharing information that very few people new about (including adults!)."

Bob Abramms - ODT Maps - author of Many Ways to See the World

For many years I have read the New Internationalist magazine with great respect. Many an article I have written, and film I have made, have had their roots in something I read in the NI.

John Pilger - journalist and film-maker

For many years I have read the New Internationalist magazine with great respect. Many an article I have written, and film I have made, have had their roots in something I read in the NI.

John Pilger - journalist and film-maker

What motivated the founders of the New Internationalist magazine was a high idealism; a real sense that we could change things; that if people knew the facts about what was going on, then they could actually have the wherewithal to campaign and try to make the world a better place.

Troth Wells - one of the founders of the New Internationalist cooperative

This book explains the principles behind the Peters Projection and a dozen other unique maps and provocative images. It includes over 70 maps and illustrations: Van Sant, Fuller Dymaxion, even Minard's map of Napoleon's march on Moscow, and routes of African Slave Trading (Petit's African Diaspora map). It also includes a redrawing of Mercator's original world map (unavailable since the 1950's), plus the first authorized publication of the original McArthur Universal Corrective map of the world.

It is a book designed to reveal the 'hidden agenda' of maps.

But it is a book about far more than cartography. It shows how we can understand the world, and each other, much more fully if we're willing to see things from a number of different perspectives. Map projections are used as a metaphor for seeing the world from different points of view (other countries, other cultures, other peoples and other times).

ISBN / Barcode: 9781931057202

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