-------- Original Message -------- Subject: "Cartographies of Travel" book to review Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:52:02 +0200 From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Hi Angie, Can this be posted to the list please? Thanks Brendan *********************************** 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" --------------- Dr Brendan Whyte Reviews Editor Journal of Spatial Science