Consolation Cartography
D. Graham Burnett: The power of maps, 3 November 2005
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection
by Mark Monmonier.
Chicago, 242 pp., £17.50, November 2004,0 226 53431 6 Show More
by Mark Monmonier.
Chicago, 242 pp., £17.50, November 2004,
“... of liberal dreams. Students of geography call this kind of graphic an ‘area cartogram’, and Mark Monmonier invokes them in his spirited polemic on the Mercator projection: such images, he writes, ‘can make a strong ideological statement, especially if fairness to all people is more important than fairness to all acres’. Most maps, of ... ”
