{"id":1836133,"date":"2025-01-23T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836133"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:38:41","slug":"a-book-on-terrae-incognitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/a-book-on-terrae-incognitae\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book on Terrae Incognitae"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carla Lois\u2019s Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Brill<\/a>, Dec 2024) sounds interesting: it\u2019s a look at the concept of terra incognita<\/a>\u2014the unknown land on the map\u2014and the different forms it can take. An English translation of a book that first appeared in 2018 in Argentina. [Matthew Edney<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>), Bookshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carla Lois\u2019s Terrae Incognitae: Mapping the Unknown (Brill, Dec 2024) sounds interesting: it\u2019s a look at the concept of terra incognita\u2014the unknown land on the map\u2014and the different forms it can take. An English translation… 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],"tags":[30,312],"class_list":["post-1836133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-books","tag-history-of-cartography","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836064,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/naming-the-gulf\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836133,"position":0},"title":"Naming the Gulf","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 January 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s been a grand total of one day since Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. 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