John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
New Books in the History of Science
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I've Been Fascinated by Cartography From an Early Age
i've been fascinated by maps, you know, from the very beginning. And when i first was looking at am an academic subject to study at university, i was feeling that i was a geographer, perhaps more than anything else, but specifically a cartographer. There's a real, a real sense of of wonder that you can get by looking at maps. Of the way t you can just travel just by looking at a map. I think it combines also arts and science and also technology.
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