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Subject: mapnerd books
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:00:01 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>


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Dear Mapsters,

Just spent some time at my local humongous retail bookstore. I was amazed
that in ten minutes perusing the new non-fiction bookshelves I saw the
following, that I got out pen and paper and took notes:

Humboldt's cosmos/bio

The empire of tea

Sir Walter Raleigh/bio

Over the edge of the World/Magellan

Before Lewis & Clark/Chouteau family/fur traders

Bering: The Russian discovery of America

The book nobody read/Copernicus

A pirate of exquisite mind/Dampier

To the hear of the Nile, Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of Central
Africa

Cook, the extraordianary voyages of Captain James Cook

By Permission of Heaven, the true story of the Great Fire of London


Now, I do not know about you, but I found this to be an extraordinary
compilation of geographically oriented books on the "hot new books" shelf
at Barnes & Noble.

I guess it is time for summer reading?


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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