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Emeritus Geography Prof. William Denevan alerted me to an atlas which could
only be called a bargain at $25 !
 
Maya atlas: the struggle to preserve Maya land in southern Belize / compiled
by the Maya people of southern Belize; with the Toledo Cultural Council and
the Toledo Alcodes Association; with the assistance of Indian Law Resource
Center, GeoMap Group, UC Berkeley, and Society for the Preservation of Education
and Research.
 Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books; Emeryville, CA: Dist. to the
book trade by Publishers Group West, 1997.
 
isbn 1556432569
OCLC 36993632
LC   97-15801/MAPS
 
Low price comes in part from a subsidy of grants from the National Geographic
Society and others.  Although he is too modest about it, the work was organized
by Bernard Nietschmann, Geography Dept. UCal, where cartography grads with
Indians (Native Central Americans?) assistance did much of the work, reports
Prof. Denevan.
 
We were so impressed after seeing his copy, that I alerted the appropriate area
studies bibliographer, who also purchased a copy.  That may not seem unusual
if you have had some collection budget increases, but there have been none
at the Madison campus  for much too long.
 
Miriam Kerndt, Geography Library, 280 Science Hall, 550 N. Park,
   University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706; Phone: 608-262-1706
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