Monteith’s Perspective View of the Mississippi River
Although I have called James Monteith the "Master of the Margins," one of the other things I find unique and innovative about Monteith is his perspective illustrations of large geographic…
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…
“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…