Category Archives: Maps

Along Straight Lines

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Those of you who are regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fascination with railway travel and with maps. While I am a mere dilettante, I recently had the good fortune to connect with someone … Continue reading →

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Springtime in Paris

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Brian D. Butler
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Where you can light up

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

One of the things that I enjoy most about this blog is the contact with readers and followers all over the world. I get lots of messages with travel questions, especially about visiting the United States. Lately, it seems that … Continue reading →

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How far is it ?

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

I’m a big fan of Helsinki-based geographer Topi Tjukanov’s always innovative presentations of data from new perspectives/ This clever graphic examines just how far you can drive in one hour from twenty different European capitals.

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Middle Earth Parks

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Dan Bell is a very talented amateur cartographer who loves J.R.R. Tolkien’s iconic Middle Earth maps and national parks too. He has combined his interests in a wonderful series of Tolkien-style maps of parks in the U.K. and the U.S.. … Continue reading →

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Literary Illustration

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

There is a long history of utilizing maps as a mode of literary illustration. The current exhibition Landmarks: Maps As Literary Illustration at Harvard’s Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts brings together a wonderful collection of more than sixty literary maps of places … Continue reading →

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Road Scholars

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Caught Mapping (see below) will likely only be of interest to cartography geeks and serious roadtrippers, but take a gander anyway.

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You can’t get there from here

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

Helsinki-based geographer Topi Tjukanov is a wizard at using spatial data from new perspectives. If you’ve ever done any roadtripping in the US, this map of optimal routes by car from the geographic center of the country to all counties … Continue reading →

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Europe by Rail: The Definitive Guide

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

For the last two decades, many pundits and self-appointed experts have predicted the imminent demise of printed books. Travel guidebooks were voted most likely to disappear. While there’s no doubt that the travel genre has been impacted by digital books, … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Endonym

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Brian D. Butler

An endonym is the name of a country, region, or geographic area as it’s known by the people who live there. These names may legally designated by a government or just commonly used terms. The clever endonym map of the … Continue reading →

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