Abstract
DESPITE the increasing interest in maps now manifest, no one in Great Britain has yet undertaken a really comprehensive work on all sides of the subject, such as was attempted in Germany some years ago by Max Eckert. The present modest effort makes no pretence of filling the gap, its aim being rather to provide the intelligent layman with a general introduction to the subject. Apart from the width of the survey, it does not go greatly beyond previous attempts of a popular kind, and it, of course, has no claim to vie with the excellent books on the technical side of map-making now available.
The World in Maps:
a Study in Map Evolution. By Prof. W. W. Jervis. Pp. 208 + 4 maps. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd.; Liverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, Ltd., 1936.) 7s. 6d. net.
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HEAWOOD, E. The World in Maps. Nature 139, 608–609 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139608a0
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