More on Jacques Redway
Redway is still a bit of a puzzle to me. As I mentioned in my earlier post on him, he was the author of Butler's Complete Geography. The Library of…
Rhode Rage– Unusual Maps of Rhode Island
This is an unusual depiction of the Ocean State is this use of its distinct outline as a comparative area symbol on a map of the British Isles (map from…
“American Maps are Bad” -Jacques Redway
I came across the name Jacques Redway while researching James Monteith, and noticing a lot of similarities in the style and content of their geography textbooks. Monteith was older, more…
James Monteith’s First Attempt at Comparative Area
James Monteith's textbooks make a lot of inventive efforts to help geography students understand comparative area on maps (read more about that here). This map is from the first half…