Is this an imperialistic claim by a British author to the Holy Land, or what?

I’ll shortly be deleting the FB feed for “mapping as process” — follow me on H-MAPS or via an RSS reader to learn of new posts. I might try twitter.

Apparently, I live not in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine, USA, but in Oild-Veetty (or should it be Kild-Noutvy?)

Everyone with anything like an academic interest in early maps (which is to say everyone who likes this blog) should join!

Native Peoples in Wisconsin

Is the Magnetic Compass Responsible for the Common Practice of Orienting Maps to the North?

How could I have missed this?

My opening remarks for the “Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project,” Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, held at Yunnan University (Chenggong Campus), 25 August 2019

The catalogue raisonée of 16th-century Italian commercial mapping perpetuates a singular failing among map historians