Comments on: New Book: Strange Maps That Take Travelers Nowhere

By: Richard Mussler-Wright

Richard Mussler-Wright — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:59 +0000

I have a love of maps. I have many maps of the western US that help guide me to ghost towns and mining settlements. Maps are awesome.

Thanks for reviewing this one. Frank Jacobs Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities is on my list. I want to see the map of world “if the Great War turned out differently”! Thanks!

By: Laura B

Laura B — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:49:38 +0000

Wow, that book is so cool. I could look at maps for days. I was the kid who cut all the continents apart and tried to piece them back together. Strange Maps sounds really neat. It would very cool to see the maps that are drawn if wars and events turned out differently. I’ve often thought about it.

By: pen4hire

pen4hire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:49:34 +0000

What a great quote! That certainly belongs in the Strange Maps book. I hope you don’t mind if I draw the attention of the author to Mr. Burton’s quote over at his blog site.

By: traveler'sbro

traveler'sbro — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:56:44 +0000

Re: Your addiction to maps: In his “The Anatomy of Melancholy” 17th Century scholar Robert Burton, who never traveled, physically at least, beyond Oxford, recommends map viewing as an effective cure for depression and boredom: “Methinks it would please any man to look upon a geographical map…chorographical,topological, delineation, to behold, as it were, all the remote provinces, towns, cities of the world, and never go forth to the limits of his studies, to measure by the scale and compass their extent, distance, examine their site.” He enthuses at length on this, citing many famous people who cherished maps and the reading thereof.

By: jessiev

jessiev — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:11:33 +0000

WHAT fun! i need to buy this book for *myself*! thanks, vera! .-= jessiev´s last blog ..Natasha Lands Down Under: Winner of Moonbeam Book Award =-.