![]() ![]() ![]() There are many maps of fictional places, “what if” scenarios, cartographic mistakes, comical creations or crazy ideas on how to remap the world.įor instance, an old map showing California as an island (a cartographic mistake that survived some hundred years on many maps), a map showing Europe if Germany had won World War I, a map of the borders of Europe based on a would-be fascist victory in World War II, and the map about Thomas Jefferson’s proposal to divide the Northwest territory into 10 new states. But don’t think that each map is just a curious or historical variation of a regular map. In his blog Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs publishes a selection of cartographical curiosities and trivia that you would not find in an ordinary atlas, and this book is a collection of his most relevant and interesting posts to that date. Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic CuriositiesĢ009, 256 pages, 9.5 x 11.1 x 0.7 inches, softcover Strange Maps – A collection of fun and peculiar maps that you won’t find in an ordinary atlas ![]()
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