----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We are pleased to announce a pre-publication review of _Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies_, volume 2, book 2 of _The History of Cartography_, edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. The review, by Yi-Fu Tuan, is in the July 1994 issue of _Natural History_ magazine (pp. 26-31) and includes color illustrations of five of the book's forty color plates: the _Changjiang tu_ (Map of the Yangtze River), a nineteenth-century Chinese pictorial map of the Yangtze and Han Rivers showing flood control works in Hubei Province (plate 2); the _Nihon meisho no e_ (Panoramic view of the noted places of Japan, ca. 1804), a woodblock print of an oblique aerial view by Kuwagata Keisai (plate 28); a late eighteenth-century map of the Potala and other holy places of central Tibet, painted on cloth (plate 34); a Burmese cosmological map of the Cakkavala, painted on mulberry bark from a late nineteenth-century manuscript (plate 35); and a Thai map of Asia from the Arabian Sea to Korea and Japan, dated 1176 and signed by four artists (plate 36). The book will be available in October from the University of Chicago Press. With all good wishes, Charles W. Dean, Program Assistant The History of Cartography Project University of Wisconsin-Madison [log in to unmask]