Profile of the North Atlantic (1885)
Source: James Monteith, New Physical Geography, 1885 Monteith, like so many of his contemporaries, made frequent use of terrain profiles of cross sections. Monteith, in particular, included many profiles of…
New Monteith Details
My collection of James Monteith textbooks keeps growing. I keep finding subtle differences in the various editions, along with great new details of the comparative geography that he focused on,…
Comparative Area in Invasion Planning
This map, from the Matthews-Northrup Global Atlas of the World at War (1944), has an interesting connection between my interest in comparative area symbols and wartime strategic atlases. As an…
Jacques Redway and American Maps Getting Worse
I’ve written a couple of posts about Jacques Redway, and I remain intrigued about what the full story of his life and work might contain. But as I collect more…