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Subject: two new books of interest to mapsters
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:37:34 -0500
From: "ahudson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Mapsters,

On C-span2 over the weekend Tom Chaffin gave a fascinating presentation
on
John Charles Fremont, based on Chaffin's new book,"Pathfinder: John
Charles
Fremont and the course of American empire." NY: Hill and Wang, 2002
isbn
0809075571. In Chaffin's C-span presentation he referred to Fremont's
mapping several times, so this may well be worth a look.

Washington Post Book World this Sunday had a review of a book on the
life
of Christopher Wren, 17th century genius. The review mentions his many
activities, including mapping and his "access to the highest academic
and
political echelons." Lisa Jardine [fabulous author] is the author of "On
a
Grander Scale, the outstanding life of Christopher Wren." no isbn given.

These complement the book on Pepys which came out 6 months ago or so.

I am developing a reading list of these bios on map personalities for an
assignment in my little map librarianship course. Wonder if others come
to
mind?

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

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http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html

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