Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
Peaks and pirates … A detail from a version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s map by Monro Orr in 1934. Photograph: 14597/The British Library Board, via The Guardian.
The Guardian
From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps.
Google Maps Mania
According to most current models of climate change, life in the year 2100 is going to resemble the most dystopian visions of the future cooked up by writers of science fiction.
Finally, a world map that’s all about oceans
Big Think
The Spilhaus Projection may be more than 75 years old, but it has never been more relevant than today.
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Map of the week
Recently I went to a meeting at the public library in Medford, Massachusetts. With some time to kill beforehand, I browsed their map collection and came across this atlas put out by the state (excuse me, Commonwealth) in 1962.
Signature of Famous Botanist Discovered on Map of Japan
Worlds Revealed: Geography & maps at the Library of Congress
The signature of the American botanist who helped bring the famous Japanese cherry blossom trees to the United States was discovered by this author on a 1901 map of Japan.
Ghost Plants: Reusing Huge Abandoned Sears Buildings Across Urban America
99% Invisible
A few years back, I moved into a Sears building — no, not that famous skyscraper in Chicago, or one of those department stores in the suburbs, but a city block-sized brick behemoth just south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
