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Seltsame Karten: Ein Atlas Kartographischer Kuriositäten (2012)

by Frank Jacobs(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Liebeskind

review 1: Strange Maps's consistent unearthing of the most obscure, eyebrow-raising and whimsical diagrams has left no doubt how intimately maps reflect the way we look at our world. However, reading about maps for hours on end takes a toll on your interest. Map descriptions begin to drone on and on. Though I do appreciate such oddities as culinary maps, and country-shaped clouds, Ludacris's map did not impress me at all. In fact, some would take it as offensive. Sorry, but Strange Maps is not one of my favorites.
review 2: This coffee table book shows cartographic oddities, one to a set of facing pages. It has the famous Minard map that Edward Tufte has brought to prominence, and many other maps. I was disappointed that most of the maps in the book show fictional or ... morefanastic information, not real information presented in novel ways, though there are a handful of those. For example, there's a strawberry-jam smudge that is supposed to look like a map of north and south america. And a cloud that looks like Great Britain. These struck me as just filler. less

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