{"id":1786973,"date":"2019-01-11T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786973"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:39:29","slug":"another-book-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/another-book-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Book Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"theater-of-the-world-us\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"the-golden-atlas\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"history-of-the-world-map-by-map\" <\/div> <\/div>
\"all-over-the-map-book\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Thomas Reinertsen Berg’s Theater of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is reviewed in the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> by Lorraine Berry. See previous entry<\/a>. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/em> excerpts some maps<\/a> from The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and talks a bit with the book’s author, Edward Brooke-Hitching. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The British newspaper i<\/em> looks at a recent rush of coffee-table map books<\/a>, starting with DK’s History of the World Map by Map<\/em><\/a><\/strong>: they interview retired journalist Peter Snow, who wrote the introduction to that book. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n

We’ve seen a flurry of pieces about the future of paper maps<\/a>\u00a0lately; that’s the jumping-off point for PBS News Hour<\/em>\u2019s interview with Betsy Mason<\/a>, one of the co-authors of All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which I reviewed<\/a> last month. [NYPL<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Reinertsen Berg’s Theater of the World is reviewed in the Washington Post by Lorraine Berry. See previous entry. [WMS] The Huffington Post excerpts some maps from The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1786973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-history","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789658,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/11\/lord-of-maps-more-real-world-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786973,"position":0},"title":"Lord of Maps: More Real-World Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 November 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Here\u2019s another map artist who draws maps of real-world places in the style of fantasy maps: Isaac of Lord of Maps has around 30 maps\u2014mostly of U.S. states, but also a few countries and one city\u2014available for sale as prints of various sizes. 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To be honest I wasn\u2019t aware that it had its own Android app; once that\u2019s closed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1788540,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/some-more-coronavirus-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786973,"position":3},"title":"Some More Coronavirus Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 March 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post maps COVID-19 cases by U.S. state and country (above). Animated maps from HealthMap and NBC New York trace the spread of the coronavirus over time. [Maps Mania] Maps Mania also has a list of official government coronavirus maps. 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