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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:00:42 -0400
From: "World of Maps Inc." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 4 new items of interest to members of this list.
Sender: "World of Maps Inc." <[log in to unmask]>
Historical Atlas of Central Europe
By Paul Robert Magocsi
Circa 2002
ISBN 0802084869 Paperback
Price CAN$50.00
Published by University of Toronto Press
The Historical Atlas of Central Europe covers the area from Poland,
Lithuania, and the eastern part of Germany to Greece and western Turkey
and extends in time from the early fifth century to the present. This
new edition of the Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, first
published in 1993 to great acclaim, incorporates the enormous political
changes that have taken place since 1989, taking into consideration
comments from seventy-five reviewers from seventeen countries. The final
third of the volume has been completely reconceptualized and
reconfigured with new maps, text and statistical tables. The
bibliography has been updated and expanded.
The Middle East
A laminated full color double-sided educational wallmap.
Publisher: Knowers Ark, Canada
Price CAN$54.95
Dimensions 27" x 36"
Side one:
A stunning satellite image of the entire region from the Mediterranean
to India surrounded by detailed social and economic profiles of 25
countries (including the US and Canada). Succinct information and
statistics about religion, recent history, military expenditures and
capabilities, global economics, transnational corporations, oil
reserves, production and consumption and the fresh water crisis.
Side two:
Featured are large, detailed political maps of Afghanistan, Iraq and
Israel/Palestine. Also included are historical maps of Palestine,
Jerusalem and Israel from 1878 to 2000, detailing the mandates, early
partition plans, and pre-1948 villages and settlements. Current
settlements, refugee camps and zones of authority in the West bank and
Gaza, and a water systems map showing watersheds, pipelines, wells and
desalination plants.
Lie of the Land - The Secret Life of Maps (Our apology if this book
has been previously described on this list)
Circa 2001
ISBN 0712347518
Price CAN$ 19.95
Published by The British Library
Lie of the Land invites you to take a closer look at maps and to
discover that there is often more
to a map than meets the eye.
In this book more than thirty specially selected maps are illustrated
and discussed in detail, revealing the secrets hidden in the maps and
the human stories behind their creation. Maps reflect the views of their
makers and the societies and times in which they were made, and this
book gathers together maps from around the world that have been used for
the purpose of control, those reflecting a personal view of the world
and those that reveal more when you take a closer look.
Ontario First Nations Map
Publisher CreeTech
This map contains the following unique information:
First Nation communities
First Nations treaty boundaries within the province
Scale 1:2,000,000
Price CAN$ 75.00
Additionaly shown are all major highways and railways, provincial and
federal parks, towns and cities game preserves
Faithfully,
Brad Green
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