Jacques Redway on the History of European Discovery
Another piece in the puzzle of Jacques Redway and his desire for better maps. This series of maps is obviously problematic in terms of its Eurocentric notion of “discovering” and…
Profile of the North Atlantic (1885)
Source: James Monteith, New Physical Geography, 1885 Monteith, like so many of his contemporaries, made frequent use of terrain profiles of cross sections. Monteith, in particular, included many profiles of…
New Monteith Details
My collection of James Monteith textbooks keeps growing. I keep finding subtle differences in the various editions, along with great new details of the comparative geography that he focused on,…
Comparative Area in Invasion Planning
This map, from the Matthews-Northrup Global Atlas of the World at War (1944), has an interesting connection between my interest in comparative area symbols and wartime strategic atlases. As an…