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Subject:        "Cartographies of Travel" book to review
Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:52:02 +0200
From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Angie,
 Can this be posted to the list please?

Thanks

Brendan

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I have the following book to be reviewed for the "Journal of Spatial Science".

Please contact me off-list if you would like to review it.

"Cartographies of travel and navigation"
James Akerman (ed)
University of Chicago Press, Nov 2006
hardback, 344pp, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings
US$55/GBP35
ISBN 0-226-01074-0

from the back cover:
"a tour de force in geographic, cartographic and transportation history, this
compendium ranges from sea charts to in-car navigation systems"
"the first attempt to present a history of travel mapping"
"the fundamental hypothesis that, sea charts aside, one of today's most common use of
maps - for wayfinding - is a very recent phenomenon"

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Dr Brendan Whyte
Reviews Editor
Journal of Spatial Science