Category Archives: Maps

Attention Map Geeks

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The amazing new exhibition, Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific at the Main Gallery of the Firestone Library, Princeton University runs until January 2, 2011 The fascinating exhibition documents the drama of the unfolding European exploration of the Pacific … Continue reading →

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Maps A la Carte

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

I was pleased to see a brief story about travel friend Andrew Owen’s A la Carte Maps project on the New York Times Intransit Blog and in Sunday’s NY Times travel section. Although they only cover ten cities, A la … Continue reading →

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Real Locations – Imaginary Crimes

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  Whether it be the London of Sherlock Holmes or the Ystad of the Swedish Wallander, Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco or Donna Leon’s Venice, the settings chosen by crime fiction authors have helped those writers to bring their fictional investigators … Continue reading →

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Gotta Love Strange Maps !

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Frank Jacobs has been curating and writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006 and has recently joined the culturally minded Big Think collective. You can also find a terrific selection of Frank’s bizarre and brilliant work in the Strange Map … Continue reading →

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Envisioning The World

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

“Envisioning The World” is a collection of early printed maps that offers snapshots of a world that was largely unknown at the time many of the maps were made. For most people, then, familiar territory encompassed not much more than a neighborhood. … Continue reading →

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