“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…
Balloon View of a Continent
James Monteith published many of these "balloon views" of continents in his late nineteenth-century geography textbooks. This is an oblique view with exaggerated terrain that is neither a topographic map,…