Strange maps: an atlas of cartographic curiosities
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2009
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| Abstract: | A collection of unusual maps is complemented by interesting statistics and social commentary, in a volume that includes a map of Thomas More's Utopia and imaginings of what the globe might look like if its lands and oceans were inverted. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | XII, 244 S. zahlr. Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780142005255 |
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Autor: Jacobs, Frank
Jahr: 2009
CONTENTS
Introduction: Not for Navigation xi
I. CARTOGRAPHIC MISCONCEPTIONS
1. Nice Colors, Wrong Height: Mapping
Mountains in 1831 3
2. Black Rock, Fake Rock: The First, False
Map of the True North 4
3. Black Amazon Women: The Island of
California 7
4. We Hope the League of Nations Will
Rule the Tetrahedron Well 8
II. LITERARY CREATIONS
1. More s Memento Mori: A Color Map
of Utopia 10
2. Love s Topography: La Carte de
Tendre 13
3. Finally in Need of a Navy: New
Switzerland 14
4. Lord of the Flies, with a Happy
Ending: A Two Years Vacation 17
5. Captain Nemo s Deathbed: The
Mysterious Island 18
6. Not Kansas, but Just as Square:
The Land of Oz 21
7. Close Your Eyes and Think of Airstrip
One: The World in 1984 22
III. ARTOGRAPHY
1. Back to the Drawing Board: An
Inaccurate Map of Charlottesville 25
2. Drawn from Memory: United Shapes
of America 26
3. Gothic Barcelona: Horror and Humor
in El Born 29
4. Now This Is World Music:
Harmonious World Beat 30
5. Chimero s Chimeras: Transformed
States of America 31
6. Pretentious, Moo? The Cow That
Conquered the World 33
7. Don t Do It, Baby: Giant Infant
Threatens Downtown Vancouver 34
8. Not Atoll : Real Maps Reassembled
into Imaginary Places 37
9. Maps as Art: Painted Peru 38
IV. Z00M0RPHIC MAPS
1. Scott s Great Snake; or, The
Anaconda Plan 41
2. Itching to Spread Its Wings West:
The American Dove, 1833 44
3. Geographical Fun: The Aleph Maps 47
V. (POLITICAL) PARODY
1. A New Species of Monster :
The Gerry-mander 52
2. The Jesusland Map 53
3. Flanders Sleeps with the Fishes:
Wallonie-sur-Mer 54
4. A New Simplified Map of London 56
VI. MAPS AS PROPAGANDA
1. Overlapping Claims : Early-Twentieth-
Century Balkan Aspirations 58
2. Germany Wins World War I: French
Worst-Case Scenario 59
3. Another Plan to Kill France: Italy on
the Atlantic 60
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4. A Patchwork Germany to Keep
France Safe 61
5. Germany s Future: From the English
Channel to the Caspian Sea 62
6. What a German Africa Might Have
Looked Like 63
7. Reverse-Engineered Nazi Propaganda:
Germany Must Perish 65
VII. OBSCURE PROPOSALS
1. Dampieria to Guelphia: A Ten-State
Australia 68
2. That Absurd Element in Jefferson s
Mind : Ten States That Never Were 70
3. Texas Can t Hold Em: The Lone Star
Empire 72
4. Western Designs on the Middle East:
The Sykes-Picot Agreement 73
5. Franz Ferdinand s Winning Idea: The
United States of Greater Austria 75
6. Oklahoma s Stillborn Twin: The State
of Sequoyah 77
7. Dutch Dreams of Expansion into
Germany: Eastland, Our Land 79
8. Sweet Home Talladego: C. Etzel
Pearcy s Thirty-eight-State Union 81
9. Forty-seven Fingers in the Antarctic
Pie: The Frontage Principle 83
10. Out of One, Many: Sixteen New
American Nations 85
11. The Fro Gymraeg: A Reservation for
Welsh 88
VIII. EPHEMERAL STATES
1. The Darién Scheme: A Tropical
Scotland Gone Horribly Wrong 91
2. Gray Area Between the United States
and Canada: The Republic of Indian
Stream (1832-35) 93
3. A Small Country That Never Was:
Greater Belgium 94
4. Nice Name for It: The United States of
Stellaland 97
5. A Pizza Slice Called Friendship: The
World s First Esperanto State 98
6. Independent for Only Twenty-four
Hours: Carpatho-Ukraine 100
IX. STRANGE BORDERS
1. The Circle and the Wedge: Delaware s
Curious Border 102
2. Going, Going, Gone: The Old
Cherokee Country 104
3. The Aroostook War (Bloodless if You
Don t Count the Pig) 106
4. World s Smelliest Border: The Limburg
Split 108
5. An Accident of Nature, Geography and
Man: Market Reef s Jigsaw Border 110
6. May the Sauce Be with You: Battle
Lines in the Barbecue Wars 112
X. EXCLAVES AND ENCLAVES
1. You Say Enclave, I Say Exclave: Let s
Fence the Whole Thing Off 114
2. The Vennbahn Complex: Five Little
Germanies in Belgium 117
3. Enclaves, Counterenclaves and a Dead
Body. The Borders of Baarle 118
4. Bubbleland, Not Far from Monkey s
Eyebrow: The Kentucky Bend 120
5. Madha and Nahwa: The Omelet-
Shaped Enclave Complex 122
6. Cooch Behar: The Mother of All
Enclave Complexes 123
XI. A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
1. Subcontinent with a Twist: Sri Lanka
on Top! 128
2. Your Antipodes Most Likely Have
Fins 130
3. Go with the Flow: The Norwegian
Drop 132
4. Humboldt s Imaginary Mountain:
The Beginning of Geobotany 133
5. One Size Fits All: The Equinational
Projection 136
6. Courses, Countries and Comparative
Lengths: The World s Principal Rivers
138
7. The Eclectic Archipelago and Lakes of
All Countries 140
8. Some Like It Hot—and Wet: The
Luscious Waterworld of Dubia 143
XII. ICONIC MANHATTAN
1. No One Calls Clinton Clinton :
Pinning Down Manhattan s
Neighborhoods 146
2. From Spuyten Duyvil to Battery Park:
A Wordmap of Manhattan 148
3. A World Map of Manhattan 149
4. Who Put the Ice in NYC? 150
XIII. LINGUISTIC CARTOGRAPHY
1. The World s Linguistic Superpower:
Papua New Guinea 154
2. Switzerland s Curious Culinary and
Cultural Divide: The Röstigraben 155
3. Paris s Most Unexpected Export:
The Dorsal Id 156
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4. Praise the Lord and Pass the
Dictionary: Europe s Polyglot
Prayers 157
5. Before France Spoke French 159
XIV. BASED ON THE UNDERGROUND
1. Oslo to Pyongyang Without Changing
Trains: World Tube Map 162
2. Itineraries into Eternity (and Back,
Occasionally) 164
3. Cecil B. s Niece and Other Musical
Bee s Knees 167
4. A Diagram of the Eisenhower
Interstate System 168
XV. FANTASTIC MAPS
1. The Whole World in a Cloverleaf 172
2. Jamerica the Beautiful 174
3. One Ring to Rule Them All, Mate:
Tolkien s Australia 175
4. Oh, Inverted World: If Land Was Sea
and Sea Was Land 177
XVI. CARTOGRAMS AND OTHER DATA MAPS
1. Turn the Other Cheek: The French
Kissing Map 180
2. High Noon in Washington, D.C.:
Keeping Time Before Trains 183
3. Vital Statistics of a Deadly Campaign:
The Minard Map 184
4. If Wikipedia Was China, Then ... 186
5. Ulstermen, Tennesseans, Mexicans and
Germans: A Tale of Texas s Squares
187
6. Super Interesting: The World from a
Brazilian Perspective 189
7. Where s Australia, Where s Russia? A
Cartogram of the World s Population
192
8. Staring at the Sun: All Total Solar
Eclipses Until 2020 194
9. Even Penguins Can Go Online:
Country Code Top-Level Domains 196
10. Bubbles Bursting: Area and Population
of Foreign Countries (1890) 199
11. The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of
the World 200
XVII. MAPS FROM OUTER SPACE
1. A Foldable Map of Mars s
MoonPhobos 202
2. The Colorful Side of the Moon 203
3. One Small Stroll for Man: The First
Moonwalk 205
4. Naming Titan s Methane Sea 206
XVIII. WATCHAMACALLIT
1. True or False: The Vinland Map 210
2. Europe, if the Nazis Had Won:
Neuropa 213
3. Not Even Faux, Just Plain Wrong:
Schoolcraft s Federation Islands 215
4. Clouds with Silver Linings: Europe
Discovers the World 217
5. Ludacris and the Ho -Belt: A Rap
Map of Area Codes 219
6. The Antisaloon League Map of the
World 221
7. Beautiful as a Snowflake: Fortress
Coevorden 223
8. National Dishes of Brazil 224
9. Great Britain as a Cloud 226
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 231
Image Credits 235
Index 241
CONTEMÍ S iX
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