Jan 09
548 – Wishful Mapping: a Half-baked Alaska, and the Passage That Wasn’t There
Posted in: UncategorizedWhat a strange concoction this late-18th-century French map is. Centred on the northwestern part of America, it is an eclectic mix of geographic fact and fiction. Some continental contours are instantly recognisable, for instance the Kamchatka peninsula of Russia’s Far East, and Canada’s Baffin and …
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