----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 8---------------------------Original message---------------------------- I remember a number of years ago reading an old Czech tale about a patrol of soldiers out in some mountains in the snow, and getting lost. They panicked, and their leader calmed them by producing a map. They found their way to safety and, in the pub, asked to look at this wonderful document. He showed them a map of a completely different mountain range than the one that they were in. Does anyone recognise this story? Can you tell me where it originated and what the proper version is? I am aware that I have paraphrased it very poorly. Does anyone have any other nice tales about maps. There is of course the classic Mark Twain story of the map at a scale of 1 : 1 that gets dragged out from time to time. I find stories like this useful for enlivening my lectures to students, and am always in search of more (also references to nice cartoons featuring maps as well). Cheers, Darius Bartlett [log in to unmask]